Comparison

UPV vs App UPC

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

UPV

Access personalized services from your educational institution. Manage your academic schedule, view grades, check financial aid, and access important campus resources like webmail and intranet.

Highlights
  • College ID access
  • Class calendar and reservations
  • Grades and scholarship status
  • Payroll and appointment management
  • Intranet and webmail access
  • Campus resource consultation
  • Submit suggestions and complaints
Features
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Through this application, the UPV offers its students and staff access to a wide variety of personalized services, including: - College ID. - Class calendar, sports reservations, previous appointments,... - Ratings. - Scholarship status inquiry - Check payroll. - Appointment. - Access to intranet, webmail and polibuscador - Consult the situation of classrooms, laboratories,... - Make Suggestions, Complaints and Congratulations (SQF) in the UPV improvement system. - Access poli[Consulta] - Meetings of government bodies. And many more services

About

App UPC

This app provides essential information and resources for students, faculty, and staff of a leading technical university. It offers personalized notifications, campus maps, library access, and access to academic information like grades and schedules.

Highlights
  • Personalized notifications
  • Campus maps
  • Library hours and occupancy
  • Grades and timetables
  • Digital university card
  • Grant information
Features
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The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech (UPC) is a public institution of research and higher education in the fields of engineering, architecture, sciences and technology. It is one of the highest-ranked European universities in the main international rankings in these fields. Every year, more than 6,000 bachelor’s and master’s students and more than 500 doctoral students graduate. Through the App UPC, which integrates the previous UPC Estudiants app, the UPC offers information and practical resources for the day-to-day life of its students, teaching staff and administrative and service staff. The app sends notifications tailored to the user’s profile and relationship with the institution on topics of interest, including cancellations and changes to class timetables, and provides access to information on the University’s current affairs. It also allows you to view maps of the campuses and to check the opening hours, distance and occupancy of UPC libraries at the click of a button. This new version incorporates authenticated and tailor-made services according to the user’s profile. For students, it incorporates the UPC card and provides links to services and websites, allows marks and timetables to be consulted and gives other information of interest to students, such as information on grants. It also allows you to set up alerts, set a given language and add shortcuts to the main page. For teaching staff and administrative and service staff, the App UPC recognises the user’s profile and integrates, for the first time, their UPC identity through the new digital card. The new card in the App UPC will also gradually incorporate new features.

Screenshots

UPV4 screens
App UPC4 screens

Verdict

The call

UPV and App UPC are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

UPV ships an update every 3 weeks, App UPC every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
UPV versus App UPC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUPVApp UPC
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews — better18.2% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaUPCnet TECH SL

Customer experience

UPV

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative60.0%

App UPC

Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral9.1%
Negative72.7%

In-app purchases

None

UPV

No in-app purchases

None

App UPC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UPV free?
UPV is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is App UPC free?
App UPC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do UPV or App UPC have ads?
Neither UPV nor App UPC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, UPV or App UPC?
UPV ships an update every 3 weeks, and App UPC every 2 weeks. Most recently, UPV was updated on October 25, 2026 and App UPC on October 3, 2026.

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