MICA/App vs Amplifier AR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MICA/App
Stay connected with your campus community and manage your academic life. Access critical academic tools, track deadlines with notifications, and discover campus events. Connect with peers, find campus services, and navigate with an integrated map.
- Calendar and deadline management
- Real-time academic tool access
- Campus event discovery and reminders
- Campus community interaction
- Campus services information
- Push notifications for alerts
- Campus map with routing
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The Maryland Institute College of Art App brings campus to your fingertips and enables you to connect with the MICA community: Stay on top of your events, classes, and assignments with the built in calendar function, and get notified of important dates, deadlines & security announcements. Make friends, ask questions, and access campus resources at any time! Some other exciting features include: + ACADEMICS: real-time access to all of the critical academic tools. + DEADLINES: Stay on top of multiple deadlines with push-notifications, students receive reminders, alerts and critical notifications. + CLASSES: Manage classes, create to-dos & reminders, and stay on top of assignments. + EVENTS: Discover campus events, set reminders, and track your attendance + FEATURED ACTIVITIES: Orientation, Halloween Party, Last Blast, Fashion Shows, etc. + CAMPUS COMMUNITY: Meet friends, ask questions, and keep up with what's happening on the campus wall. + GROUPS & CLUBS: Get involved with campus organizations and meet people with similar interests + CAMPUS SERVICES: Learn about services offered, such as Academic Advising, Financial Aid, The Writing Center & Student Counseling. + PUSH NOTIFICATIONS: Receive important campus notifications and emergency alerts. + CAMPUS MAP: Find the quickest route to classes, events, and offices.
Amplifier AR
Experience art that comes to life with augmented reality. This app transforms static posters and murals into dynamic calls to action, delivering messages from movement leaders. Explore deeper conversations and engage with important social issues through interactive art.
- Augmented reality art experiences
- Transforms 2D posters into 3D art
- Delivers calls to action from movement leaders
- Interactive art for social issues
- Explores deeper conversations
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Amplifier is a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times. Our AR app helps transform the analog 2-D posters, stickers, and murals we are known for, into art that literally comes to life to deliver a call to action. Hearing messages straight from movement leaders exposes the heart of these issues we are working on, and reveals the deeper conversations that have always been just beneath the surface of our work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MICA/App at 4.5 against Amplifier AR's 3.2. MICA/App also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 63%) and ratings volume (96 vs 19). Amplifier AR's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.4). On price, update cadence, 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.
MICA/App holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MICA/App has 96 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of MICA/App's written reviews are positive against 63% of Amplifier AR's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MICA/App | Amplifier AR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (96 ratings) — better | 3.2 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Maryland Institute | Amplifier Foundation |
Customer experience
MICA/App
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In-app purchases
MICA/App
No in-app purchases
Amplifier AR
No in-app purchases









