Twin Cities vs Blugold Connect+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Twin Cities
Discover campus events and get involved with student organizations. Filter events by host or activity, and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus happenings.
- Discover campus events
- Sort events by organization
- Filter by favorite activities
- Add events to calendar
- Increase student engagement
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Use the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities 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.
Blugold Connect+
This platform connects university students to campus life, offering event information, club participation, and involvement tracking. It facilitates engagement through features like QR code check-ins, group chats, and personalized feeds to enhance the college experience.
- Campus event discovery and registration
- Club and organization joining
- QR code event check-ins
- Involvement tracking
- Group chat and meeting scheduling
- Discussion feeds
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Blugold Connect+ the official student engagement platform at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. A one-stop-shop app for campus events, engagement, involvement, and campus-wide app hub - to ensure your success in connecting to all of the right places throughout your college journey! The Blugold Connect+ app allows you to join clubs and organizations, register and receive push notifications about campus events, check into events via QR code, track your involvement, chat with others, schedule meetings, gamify your experiences, create discussion feeds and so much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blugold Connect+ at 4.2 against Twin Cities's 1.3. Blugold Connect+ also leads on ratings volume (33 vs 10). Twin Cities's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 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.
Blugold Connect+ holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 33 respectively.
Twin Cities ships an update every 6 weeks, Blugold Connect+ every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Twin Cities | Blugold Connect+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (10 ratings) | 4.2 (33 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Check I'm Here, LLC | University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
Customer experience
Twin Cities
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In-app purchases
Twin Cities
No in-app purchases
Blugold Connect+
No in-app purchases
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