Plain Sight vs HBCUMADE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plain Sight
Connect intentionally with people online or in person based on shared professions, goals, skills, and interests. Discover curated business connections at events, workspaces, and travel spaces. The app facilitates networking and event discovery.
- Curated professional connections
- Event and workspace listings
- Personalized connection suggestions
- Attendee networking
- Data and activity reports
- Sponsored post promotion
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Be more intentional about who you meet online or in-person at events, workspaces, and travel spaces. Like we’ve already done for thousands of other members of the Plain Sight community, we’ll make it easy for you to find who you should meet based on your profession, goals, skills, and interests. You can also download the Plain Sight app to list your own events and shared spaces for free! For events, workspaces, and travel spaces: We curate new business connections between your guests. Send you data and activity reports that include information on the profiles that viewed, visited, and made connections while at your listing. Our paid promotion packages allow you to reach your target audiences locally or nationally via sponsored posts, push notifications, and emails. For individual members: We curate connections for you in-person or online based on your individual skills, goals, interests, and professions, so you'll never miss an opportunity to connect with the type of people you're looking to meet. You can register for events online, and immediately start connecting with other attendees who are interested in attending the event. Reach out to us for media, partnerships, questions, or suggestions: hello@plainsighthq.com
HBCUMADE
Connect with students and alumni from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Share stories, find mentors, discover campus news, and explore career opportunities within a thriving community.
- Social Hub with audio messaging
- Mentorship and networking
- Campus news updates
- Events calendar
- AI matching for connections
- Job portal with resume enhancement
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HBCUMADE is the Alumni Network built for the HBCU community. Your HBCU experience doesn’t end when you leave the Yard. It follows you into new cities, new careers, new relationships, and every chapter that comes after graduation. HBCUMADE keeps you connected to your HBCU, your alumni community, and the larger network of graduates shaping culture, business, and communities around the world. Reconnect with your school. Discover alumni in your city. Find alumni events happening year-round. Build relationships across schools, industries, cities, and generations. From the Yard to the World. Whether you’re looking to expand your professional network, meet fellow HBCU graduates in a new city, discover alumni events, reconnect with your school, or simply stay close to the culture, HBCUMADE gives you one place to find your community. WITH HBCUMADE, YOU CAN: Connect With Your HBCU Stay connected to the people, alumni, experiences, and community surrounding your alma mater long after graduation. Find Your People Discover HBCU alumni based on school, city, career, interests, and shared experiences. Your network can move with you wherever life takes you. Discover Alumni Events Year-Round Find alumni mixers, chapter events, networking opportunities, reunions, professional events, cultural experiences, social gatherings, and more happening throughout the year. Connect Beyond the Yard Your HBCU journey may begin on campus, but the network extends far beyond it. Build relationships with graduates across HBCUs, cities, industries, and generations. Grow Your Alumni Network Meet graduates who can become friends, collaborators, mentors, clients, business partners, and meaningful connections throughout your life and career. Stay Connected to the Culture From alumni events and professional opportunities to homecoming and everything in between, HBCUMADE keeps the HBCU community within reach. Discover the Power of the HBCU Network There are HBCU graduates doing incredible things everywhere. HBCUMADE makes it easier to find them, connect with them, and grow together. Your HBCU gave you a degree. It also gave you a network. HBCUMADE helps you access it. Beyond the Yard. From the Yard to the World. Download HBCUMADE and stay connected to your HBCU community, wherever life takes you.
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Verdict
Plain Sight and HBCUMADE both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of HBCUMADE's written reviews are positive against 88% of Plain Sight's. Plain Sight's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 4). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Plain Sight against 4.8 for HBCUMADE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plain Sight has 29 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Plain Sight's written reviews are positive against 100% of HBCUMADE's.
Plain Sight ships an update every 3 weeks, HBCUMADE every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plain Sight | HBCUMADE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (29 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.4 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Get To Work Inc | HBCUMADE LLC |
Customer experience
Plain Sight
HBCUMADE
In-app purchases
Plain Sight
No in-app purchases
HBCUMADE
No in-app purchases









