DPPL Mobile vs Modern Campus Involve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DPPL Mobile
Manage your library account, renew borrowed items, and search the catalog. Access digital content, discover library events, and receive personalized recommendations. The app also features a digital library card for convenient checkouts.
- Renew items
- Manage account
- Search catalog
- Access digital content
- Find library events
- Digital library card
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Renew items, manage your account, search the catalog, get digital content, find library events, and get personalized recommendations. Try out the new Des Plaines Public Library app, with faster load times and an added library card feature. Store your card in the app for easier checkouts in person. Still haven’t registered for a library card? Come to our downtown Des Plaines location to register today! Your library card from any Illinois public library may also be registered here to check out materials from our consortium of area libraries. Electronic materials require a Des Plaines Public Library card. See our website for more info, https://dppl.org/patron-services/get-a-library-card
Modern Campus Involve
Discover campus organizations and events, sync them to your calendar, and check into activities using your digital ID. Leaders can also manage event check-ins within the app. It's designed to boost student engagement and track involvement.
- Discover organizations
- Find tagged events
- Sync events to calendar
- View Digital ID
- Run Event Check-In
- Facilitate event check-in
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Use the all-new Modern Campus Involve app to find out how you can get involved on campus, check-in to events with your Digital ID, and more! Organization leaders and administrators can also facilitate the event check-in process all in the same application. • Discover organizations to get involved in • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Sync interesting events to your calendar • View your Digital ID • Run Event Check-In • And More! Powered by Modern Campus Involve. Involve provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, track and measure learning, and improve retention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DPPL Mobile at 67% against Modern Campus Involve's 14%. DPPL Mobile also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.9) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). Modern Campus Involve's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (56 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.
DPPL Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Modern Campus Involve has 56 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of DPPL Mobile's written reviews are positive against 14% of Modern Campus Involve's.
DPPL Mobile ships an update every 6 months, Modern Campus Involve every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DPPL Mobile | Modern Campus Involve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) — better | 1.9 (56 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Des Plaines Public Library | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
DPPL Mobile
Modern Campus Involve
Bugs and requests
DPPL Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Modern Campus Involve
Reported bugs
30 issues- Login trouble
- App crashes
- Search bar does not work
- Categories in search bar are unhelpful
- Garbage backend
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- Login error for campus
- Camera not working (iPhone 15)
- Won't ask permission for camera
- App steals information
- Can't find school/nothing to click
- Can't sign in
- Presence not good for college
- Used by schools to track students
- Can't log in
- Login Issue
- Not worth downloading
- Failed to log in
- App suuuuuucks
- Won't let me log in
- Can't log in to start using it
- Gave me Ebola
- Caused grandma to die from cancer
- Made parents divorce
- Keeps giving option to log in after many tries
- Link does not load for student account
- Stuck on first screen
- Stuck on intro page
- Won't work on iPhone and iPad
- Won't let me past location select screen
- Stuck on the first page after opening
Requested features
5 requests- 💡 Improve login system
- 💡 Fix search functionality
- 💡 Enable camera for check-ins on iPhone 15
- 💡 Provide clarity on data usage
- 💡 Offer a regular check-in system alternative
In-app purchases
DPPL Mobile
No in-app purchases
Modern Campus Involve
No in-app purchases
Questions
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