Comparison

UR Involved vs BigFuture School

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

Head to head
About

UR Involved

Discover campus events and ways to get involved at the University of Richmond. Filter events by organization or activity, and add them to your personal calendar to stay informed.

Highlights
  • Event discovery
  • Filter by organization
  • Filter by activity
  • Add events to calendar
  • Student engagement tools
Features
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Use the University of Richmond 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.

About

BigFuture School

This app provides students with access to their test scores and personalized college and career information. It helps users plan and pay for college, and connects them with potential scholarship programs. Access requires a mobile number provided during a qualifying test.

Highlights
  • Access test scores
  • Connect with colleges and scholarships
  • Personalized career information
  • College planning and payment guidance
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Discover majors, colleges, and careers that might align with your goals and interests. See how the skills you may be developing can lead to future pathways. BigFuture School is a free mobile app that helps you explore colleges and careers, see how your skills may connect to future options, and get personalized guidance, all in one place. It is available to you if you are 13 or older in a participating U.S. school and you take an in-school SAT or PSAT assessment and/or are enrolled in eligible AP courses*. You can easily view your in-school SAT Suite score(s) in the app." Can we revise to "You can easily view your score(s) in the app from any in-school SAT or PSAT-related test. To access the app, you’ll need to use the mobile number you initially provided. This account information is separate from your College Board account. If Connections** is offered at your school, it is an optional feature for you to discover nonprofit colleges, scholarship providers, and government agencies administering educational programs that may be a good match and are actively looking for students like you. Learn more about BigFuture School and how to access it: bigfutureschool.org *BigFuture School is not offered to students as part of their AP course participation in New York. There may be other exceptions. **A school, district, or state may choose to not provide access to Connections. Connections is not available to 8th grade PSAT 8/9 test takers or in New York.

Screenshots

UR Involved3 screens
BigFuture School4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BigFuture School at 4.6 against UR Involved's 3.7. BigFuture School also leads on ratings volume (19K vs 3) and chart position (#2 vs unranked). UR Involved's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BigFuture School holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BigFuture School has 19K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
UR Involved versus BigFuture School: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUR InvolvedBigFuture School
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)4.6 (19K ratings) — better
Positive reviews—28.2% of reviews
Number of ratings319K — better
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#2 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCheck I'm Here, LLCThe College Board

Customer experience

UR Involved

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

BigFuture School

All ratings18,571 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews348 reviews
Positive28.2%
Neutral5.7%
Negative66.1%

Bugs and requests

UR Involved

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

BigFuture School

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Multiple accounts linked to one phone number
  • Recovery email not working
  • Scores not syncing between app and website

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to change phone number
  • Better integration with College Board website
  • More customization options
  • Faster score reporting

In-app purchases

None

UR Involved

No in-app purchases

None

BigFuture School

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is UR Involved free?
UR Involved is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BigFuture School free?
BigFuture School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, UR Involved or BigFuture School?
BigFuture School is rated higher. UR Involved averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while BigFuture School averages 4.6 from 19K ratings.
Do UR Involved or BigFuture School have ads?
Neither UR Involved nor BigFuture School shows ads.

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