myLU vs Cengage Read
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
myLU
Access personalized updates and campus news from Liberty University in one convenient location. This user-friendly app organizes content for easy access to academic, financial, and athletic information.
- Personalized updates
- Campus news
- Academics
- Financial check-in
- Student checklist
- Liberty E-mail
- Athletics updates
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Welcome to Liberty University's myLU app, a personalized, user-friendly experience on both desktop and mobile platforms. It organizes content so that you can access personalized updates and LU campus news all in one convenient location. Features include the following: - Customizable Set Navigation - Customizable Newsfeed - Application Pages - myWidgets - Academics - Financial Check-in - Financial Aid - FlamesPass - Student Checklist - Liberty E-mail - Liberty Flames Athletics - Public Safety Protocols - Push Notifications - User Profile and Settings - Search
Cengage Read
Access and study your digital textbooks from anywhere. This app allows students to read, take notes, highlight, bookmark, and use text-to-speech for a flexible learning experience on the go.
- Read eTextbooks on the go
- Take notes and highlight
- Bookmark important sections
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Search keywords
- Navigate via table of contents
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Read your eTextbook and study on the go with the Cengage Read app. Cengage Read lets students study whenever – and wherever – they want. Take notes, highlight and bookmark info, have the text read out loud with text-to-speech and easily search keywords and jump to pages with the table of contents. Just log in with your Cengage username and password to get started.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cengage Read at 4.2 against myLU's 2.4. Cengage Read also leads on ratings volume (4K vs 202). myLU's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cengage Read holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cengage Read has 4K ratings behind it against 202, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of myLU's written reviews are positive against 20% of Cengage Read's.
myLU ships an update every 3 weeks, Cengage Read every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | myLU | Cengage Read |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (202 ratings) | 4.2 (4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 19.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 202 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Liberty University | Cengage Learning |
Customer experience
myLU
Cengage Read
User reviews
myLU
From 202 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy navigation (Yahweh our Breath)
- 👍 Helpful for pending tasks (Yahweh our Breath)
- 👍 Appreciated IT personnel (James Carroll Prince)
- 👍 Convenient for quick checks (Mars3942)
- 👍 Works great for some needs (CamRon3000)
Room to improve
- 🐛 Never works (DaliBear3, Bruh69ballsdeep)
- 🐛 Broken app (D0Ul0S)
- 🐛 Constantly loads/spins (DaliBear3, 18Bran, Bart's wife arb)
- 🐛 Failure to connect (MommyGall3, prettyinink0402, Zach121482)
- 🐛 Unusable after update (18Bran)
Cengage Read
From 4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to read textbooks
- 🚀 Convenient for on-the-go learning
- 👍 Useful for listening to audio while commuting
- 👍 Allows highlighting and note-taking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 🔥 Poor text formatting and layout
- 👎 Difficult to navigate and use
- 🔒 Login and account issues
- 🔍 Missing key features like split-screen and assignment tracking
Bugs and requests
myLU
Reported bugs
27 issues- Cannot connect to network
- App just spins and cannot log in
- Session keeps expiring
- App doesn't work anymore
- Constantly loads and says failure to load
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- Blocks Kaltura
- Endless loop of apps going back and forth to sign in
- Third party block issue
- Constantly fail to connect to the internet
- Stuck in perpetual loading or says cannot connect
- Constantly crashes and logs out
- Microsoft Authenticator not popping up
- White screen when trying to log on
- Hardly ever access email, only shows white screen
- Blank white screen upon opening
- Unable to login with unexpected error message
- Login loop
- Redirects to webpage for basic functions
- Cannot see washers and dryers
- Cannot find anything easily
- Logs you out daily
- Takes you to webpage for dining hours
- Does not come close to LU Today's functionality
- Login issues with Microsoft Authenticator asking for QR code or code and URL
- Endless sign in loop
- Keeps going back to Microsoft login screen
- Refreshing back to sign in page
Requested features
8 requests- Bring back LU Today
- Improve app functionality beyond links
- Fix Kaltura video player issue
- Make app more mobile-friendly
- Add dining hours information
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- Add bus maps
- Improve login process
- Fix screen fit on iPhone 15 Pro Max
Cengage Read
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and sign-outs
- Inconsistent highlighting and note-taking functionality
- Inability to view full pages and content
- Text-to-speech feature not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Improve text formatting and layout
- Add split-screen support for note-taking
- Enhance accessibility features like text-to-speech
- Integrate assignment and due date tracking
In-app purchases
myLU
No in-app purchases
Cengage Read
No in-app purchases
