UA Mobile vs RooConnect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UA Mobile
This free smartphone app serves as a digital hub for students, providing quick access to academic information, campus news, and essential services. Stay informed about courses, events, dining options, and transportation with convenient push notifications.
- Brightspace courses and announcements
- Student community boards
- Personal messaging
- Campus events calendar
- Dining hall menus
- Shuttle times
- Computer lab availability
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UA Mobile — Join the digital hub for all things UA Our free smartphone app, UA Mobile, makes it easy for students to quickly accomplish tasks and stay informed of news and events. Brightspace courses and announcements receive personal messages, campus events, dining hall menus, push notifications, opt-in channels anonymous reporting shuttle times, computer lab availability, Zips scores and schedules, and more More ways to be productive. Always within reach
RooConnect
Discover campus events and ways to get involved at the University of Akron. Filter events by organization or activity, and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus happenings.
- Discover campus events
- Filter by campus organizations
- Find events by activity
- Add events to calendar
- Increase student engagement
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Use the University of Akron 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UA Mobile at 4.1 against RooConnect's 3.7. UA Mobile also leads on ratings volume (16 vs 3). RooConnect's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). 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.
UA Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UA Mobile has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | UA Mobile | RooConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The University of Akron | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
UA Mobile
RooConnect
In-app purchases
UA Mobile
No in-app purchases
RooConnect
No in-app purchases
