Comparison

MOSOConnect vs Going Merry Scholarships

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

Head to head
About

MOSOConnect

Discover campus events and ways to get involved at Missouri Southern State University. 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 Missouri Southern 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.

About

Going Merry Scholarships

This app helps students find and apply for scholarships, grants, and financial aid to fund their college education. It offers personalized matching, simplified application processes, and tools to compare financial aid offers.

Highlights
  • Personalized scholarship matching
  • Auto-filled scholarship applications
  • Bundled scholarships for multiple applications
  • Grant and financial aid matching
  • Simplified FAFSA® form
  • Financial aid offer comparison tool
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Going Merry is a free app that helps you get money to pay for college. We match you to scholarships, grants, and financial aid–all for free. Each year, we help students get about $500 million in free money. Going Merry is already used by 2 million students and trusted by over 20,000 registered high school counselors. What makes Going Merry different? 1. Personalized scholarship matching Get applying faster. Less browsing and sifting through scholarships that aren’t applicable to you. 2. Easy, auto-filled scholarship applications Apply directly to many of the listed scholarships, right from the Going Merry website or app. We’ll even pre-fill the application form with the information in your profile. 3. Bundled scholarships We’ve combined scholarships with similar essay prompts, so you can apply to multiple scholarships with one form. 4. Your personas data is secure We fully encrypt your data, and we never sell it to third parties. 5. Grants and financial aid too Get matched to state grants you’re eligible for. And apply for financial aid using our FAFSA® Made Easier, a simplified version of the government form. Finally, compare your college financial aid offers using our analysis tool, to make the right financial choice. But don’t take our word for it. Students from 1 in 2 high schools in America already use Going Merry to help them win scholarship award money. Join them today!

Screenshots

MOSOConnect3 screens
Going Merry Scholarships4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Going Merry Scholarships at 10K against MOSOConnect's 3. MOSOConnect's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

MOSOConnect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Going Merry Scholarships has 10K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
MOSOConnect versus Going Merry Scholarships: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMOSOConnectGoing Merry Scholarships
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.8 (10K ratings)
Positive reviews—81.3% of reviews
Number of ratings310K — better
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCheck I'm Here, LLCGoing Merry Inc.

Customer experience

MOSOConnect

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Going Merry Scholarships

All ratings9,694 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews128 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral7.0%
Negative11.7%

Bugs and requests

MOSOConnect

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Going Merry Scholarships

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Account login issues
  • Problems with uploading documents
  • Inconsistent behavior when interacting with the app

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improved search and filtering options
  • Better tracking of application status
  • Expanded support for international students

In-app purchases

None

MOSOConnect

No in-app purchases

None

Going Merry Scholarships

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MOSOConnect free?
MOSOConnect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Going Merry Scholarships free?
Going Merry Scholarships is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MOSOConnect or Going Merry Scholarships?
MOSOConnect is rated higher. MOSOConnect averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Going Merry Scholarships averages 4.8 from 10K ratings.
Do MOSOConnect or Going Merry Scholarships have ads?
Neither MOSOConnect nor Going Merry Scholarships shows ads.

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