Beacon vs UoC App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beacon
This app serves as a comprehensive digital guide for student life, offering features like timetable viewing, campus navigation, and access to university services. It helps students find contact information, check resource availability, and stay updated on news and events.
- View timetable
- Campus maps and points of interest
- Staff and service contact details
- PC availability checks
- News and events browsing
- Societies and clubs search
- Answers to common service questions
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Beacon is your intelligent digital guide to student life. Just like you, it will be learning more and more skills and knowledge over the years to come, some of the things it can do include: - View your timetable - View campus maps and find points of interests - View the contact details for your lecturers, personal tutor and course leader - Search the staff directory - Check PCs availability - Find contact details for the university services - Request important documents - Browse news and events - Order a new student card - Search the societies and clubs you can join - Get directions to rooms and places on the campus - Get answers to common questions across all our services: Careers, Counselling, Digital, International Student, Library, Student Enabling, Student Services and Students' Union
UoC App
Access your university timetable, attendance records, and check-in to sessions. Connect to essential resources like Moodle and find key student information, including assessment numbers and PAT details.
- Timetable access
- Attendance history
- Session check-in
- Moodle integration
- Assessment number lookup
- PAT details
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The University of Chester app gives you easy access to your timetable and attendance history and allows you to check-in to your sessions. It also connects you to essential resources like Moodle and key information, including your assessment number and PAT details.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: UoC App at none against Beacon's shown. UoC App also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Beacon's advantage is review sentiment (21% vs 0%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Beacon ships an update every 3 weeks, UoC App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beacon | UoC App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | University of Staffordshire | University of Chester |
Customer experience
Beacon
UoC App
In-app purchases
Beacon
No in-app purchases
UoC App
No in-app purchases
