UDBapp Pro vs Be Engaged
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UDBapp Pro
This app helps marching band members, directors, and teachers learn and manage drill formations. It offers animated drill views, coordinate sheets, music integration, and attendance tracking for seamless rehearsal and performance preparation.
- Animated drill views with music
- Individual coordinate sheets
- Live coordinate tracking
- Sheet music integration
- Attendance tracking
- Tap ID for performer management
- Offline mode
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Get the app used by hundreds of thousands of marchers, directors, and teachers around the world. Features for Students • Watch the drill animation while listening to the music from any perspective (performer or director). • View your individual coordinate sheet for sets in a song or counts in a set. • Follow your drill count by count with live updating coordinates. • UDB view shows curved and straight-line path information for previous and next sets. • Student leadership can access everyone’s drill information. • Learn and clean drill in seconds after it's been exported from Pyware by the designer. Features for Directors and Staff • Tap any performer to view coordinate and UDB view information. • Change field perspective (performer/director). • Easily add/delete/edit drill files in your ensemble's account directly from your app. • Learn and clean drill in seconds after it's been exported from Pyware by the designer. Sheet Music Integration • One tap access to Beam • Import music and scores from cloud services like Dropbox and Google Drive or take a picture. • Sync the drill and music with drill tabs. • Annotate music with integrated icons and helpful tools. Differentiators • Phone layout designed for one handed use • Easily find your midway points and yard line crossing counts • Easily switch between custom views Tap ID • Tap ID allows directors to see the performer labels that your students have selected. Simply tap on a performer's dot while viewing the drill to see their name and photo. Multiple students can select a single performer label so directors can easily see and manage alternates, shadows, and primary performers. Calendar + Attendance • See your full rehearsal and performance schedule, check-in to events, and track attendance throughout the season. • Use Live Attendance to get a real-time view of who is at rehearsal and who is not. Offline Mode • Offline mode allows a director to restrict access to Ultimate Drill Book if selected users are connected to the internet. If not activated, all users will be able to access Ultimate Drill Book even if connected to a WiFi or cellular connection.
Be Engaged
Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter events by organization or activity, and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on opportunities.
- Browse campus events
- Filter by organization
- Filter by activity
- Add events to calendar
- Discover involvement opportunities
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Use the Bowling Green State University 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: UDBapp Pro at 4.8 against Be Engaged's 1.0. UDBapp Pro also leads on ratings volume (2.3K vs 1). Be Engaged's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16). 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.
UDBapp Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UDBapp Pro has 2.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | UDBapp Pro | Be Engaged |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.3K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ultimate Drill Book | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
UDBapp Pro
Be Engaged
Bugs and requests
UDBapp Pro
Reported bugs
4 issues- Drill files disappearing after updates
- Attendance tracking issues
- Crashes when adding notes
- Drill visualization jumping between sets
Requested features
5 requests- Apple Watch integration
- Ability to create custom drill designs
- Improved note-taking functionality
- Offline drill playback
- Tempo adjustment for drill and music
Be Engaged
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
UDBapp Pro
No in-app purchases
Be Engaged
No in-app purchases
Questions
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