Baja SAE vs CourseGrab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Baja SAE
This app provides essential information for the Baja SAE community, including competition news, schedules, maps, and team details. Stay updated with real-time scoring, event results, and important announcements, even without data service.
- Competition news and announcements
- Real-time team scoring and results
- Event leaderboards
- Offline maps and schedules
- Paddock team locator
- Push notifications
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The Baja SAE app was custom built for the Baja SAE community: competitors, volunteers, spectators, and sponsors. Using the app, you’ll have access to competition news, maps, schedules, paddock list, team list, and more. • Team Scoring Notifications - Follow your favorite teams’ results, achievements, and penalties as they compete during competition. • Event Results – Easily access leaderboards, static results, live dynamic results, and submit problem reports for your team. • Push Notifications & Announcements - Be automatically notified about important competition announcements as well as of weather-related impacts while on-site. • Maps & Schedules - Access the most up to date maps, schedules, and competition guides--available in the app even if you don’t have data service coverage at the competition site. • Paddock List – Use the Team Paddock List to locate your favorite teams in the paddocks while on site at competition.
CourseGrab
This app helps students at a specific university get into full courses. It sends instant notifications when a spot opens up, allowing users to quickly access the enrollment system and secure their place.
- Search courses by name or code
- Track unlimited courses
- Instant spot opening notifications
- Direct link to Student Center
- Open source project
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Trying to get into a class at Cornell that’s already full? CourseGrab is here to help! CourseGrab enhances the student enrollment experience by notifying students of available spots in courses they wish to enroll in. CourseGrab currently caters to Cornell University’s class roster. The key features of the application include: - Search for any course name or course code for easy tracking - Track an unlimited number of courses - Receive immediate push notifications when an empty spot opens up - Navigate to Student Center to grab your spot straight from CourseGrab CourseGrab is an app from Cornell AppDev, an open source app development project team at Cornell University. Check us out at www.cornellappdev.com! Let us know what you think of CourseGrab by sending feedback at team@cornellappdev.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CourseGrab at 3.6 against Baja SAE's 2.4. CourseGrab also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). Baja SAE's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 25%). 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.
CourseGrab holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Baja SAE's written reviews are positive against 25% of CourseGrab's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Baja SAE ships an update every 4 months, CourseGrab every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Baja SAE | CourseGrab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (16 ratings) | 3.6 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SAE | Walker White |
Customer experience
Baja SAE
CourseGrab
In-app purchases
Baja SAE
No in-app purchases
CourseGrab
No in-app purchases
