MPrint Mobile vs Fly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MPrint Mobile
Print documents on campus directly from your mobile device. Submit print jobs to a secure queue and release them at any nearby printer using the app. This eliminates the need for physical MCard swipes and allows for flexible printing locations.
- Submit print jobs remotely
- Release documents at any printer
- No MCard swipe required
- Find nearby printers
- Flexible printing options
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The MPrint Mobile App provides a convenient way for students, faculty, and staff to print on campus without needing to swipe your MCard! Users should submit print jobs to the Follow Me print queue, and then can launch the app to release their documents to printers nearby. No need to worry about which printers you have installed, or frustration if the printer you normally use is jammed or out of paper. Simply walk up to another printer nearby and release!
Fly
This app uses a unique visual timer with an animated bird that grows as you focus. It provides AI-driven insights into your work habits and helps you organize tasks with color-coded folders. Track your progress and integrate with music for a more engaging productivity experience.
- Distraction-free focus timer with animated bird
- AI-powered insights on productivity and blockers
- Task organization with color-coded folders
- Progress tracking and streak monitoring
- Integrated Spotify music control
- Personalized stats and weekly AI insights
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Fly is a focus app built for people who want to actually get things done. Start a focus session and watch your personal bird soar through a starfield — the longer you focus, the more alive it becomes. Complete tasks and the bird glows green. It's not just a timer. It's a ritual. FOCUS SESSION A distraction-free timer with an animated bird that reacts to your focus. Take a break after 30 minutes, track your streak, and stay locked in. AI INSIGHTS After every session, describe what you worked on and get a personalized breakdown — what you accomplished, what's blocking you, and what to tackle next. Even your Spotify music gets analyzed. TASKS & FOLDERS Organize your work into color-coded folders. Add tasks mid-session, check them off, and watch them disappear when you're done. STATS See when you focus best, what you work on most, and get a weekly AI-generated insight that actually means something. SPOTIFY See what's playing and control your music without leaving the app. Fly is for students, builders, and anyone who wants to trade the scroll for something real. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING Fly is actively being built and updated. We're just getting started — here's what's coming: Apple Sign In & Cloud Sync — your data across all your devices Apple Reminders & Calendar integration — bring your existing tasks into Fly Friends & accountability — see your friends' streaks and focus together Focus music — curated playlists built for deep work, right inside the app Widgets — start a session from your home screen without opening the app Study mode — Pomodoro, custom intervals, and focus challenges AI coach — weekly check-ins that learn your patterns and push you to improve Apple Watch support — track focus sessions from your wrist
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fly at 100% against MPrint Mobile's 21%. Fly also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months). MPrint Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (70 vs 5). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fly holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MPrint Mobile has 70 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of MPrint Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fly's.
MPrint Mobile ships an update every 3 months, Fly every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | MPrint Mobile | Fly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (70 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 70 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The University of Michigan | DIVYEN JAGDISH PATEL |
Customer experience
MPrint Mobile
Fly
In-app purchases
MPrint Mobile
No in-app purchases
Fly
No in-app purchases
