Campus Life @ State vs Second Course
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Campus Life @ State
Discover and get involved with events happening at San Diego State University. Filter events by organization or activity and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus life.
- Event discovery
- Filter by organization
- Filter by activity
- Add events to calendar
- Student engagement tools
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Use the San Diego State University events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus! • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.
Second Course
Discover free food events on your college campus. Receive alerts for snacks, meals, and desserts, claim your portion, and pick it up. It's also a tool for organizations to attract members and for universities to address food insecurity and waste.
- Free food alerts
- Claim food portions
- Event notifications
- Food waste reduction
- Food security improvement
- Campus-wide availability
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Second Course is a new way for students to get themselves fed on their college campus! Students can get notifications of free food, snacks, refreshments, or even desserts on campus. Simply see an alert, claim a portion, then you are ready to pick up your prize. Great for clubs and event organizers who ordered too much food. Use Second Course to get more members! Also an effective resource for universities to improve food security among college students, as well as food waste on campus! Currently only available at San Diego State University.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Second Course at 5.0 against Campus Life @ State's 3.8. Campus Life @ State's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Second Course holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively.
Campus Life @ State ships an update every 6 weeks, Second Course every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Campus Life @ State | Second Course |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Check I'm Here, LLC | Daniel Self |
Customer experience
Campus Life @ State
Second Course
In-app purchases
Campus Life @ State
No in-app purchases
Second Course
No in-app purchases
Questions
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