UA Mobile vs Help Is Here Tri
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
Help Is Here Tri
This app offers guidance for supporting friends and loved ones facing mental health challenges, including suicide prevention. It allows users to create a "My Support Network" for quick contact and provides centralized access to campus and community resources and crisis hotlines.
- Mental health support guidance
- Suicide prevention information
- Customizable "My Support Network"
- Quick contact access
- Centralized resource directory
- Crisis hotline access
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Cuyahoga Community College’s Help Is Here app provides guidance for supporting a friend in need, suicide prevention, or coping with mental health challenges. With the “My Support Network” function, users can create a customized collection of just those contacts they especially want to quickly access and reach out to by phone or text during difficult times. Help Is Here also provides easy and centralized access to potentially life-saving resources and services offered on campus and in the community, including crisis hotlines. The Help Is Here app is designed for students, parents, friends of students, faculty and staff of Cuyahoga Community College, located in Northeast Ohio. The Help Is Here app better prepares people to help a friend, loved one or themselves.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Help Is Here Tri at 4.7 against UA Mobile's 4.1. Help Is Here Tri also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 50%). 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.
Help Is Here Tri holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of UA Mobile's written reviews are positive against 83% of Help Is Here Tri's.
UA Mobile ships an update every 5 months, Help Is Here Tri every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UA Mobile | Help Is Here Tri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (16 ratings) | 4.7 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | The University of Akron | Cuyahoga Community College |
Customer experience
UA Mobile
Help Is Here Tri
In-app purchases
UA Mobile
No in-app purchases
Help Is Here Tri
No in-app purchases
Questions
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