SHARE Mobile Library vs BOX5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SHARE Mobile Library
Access the SHARE shared library catalog for central and southern Illinois. Browse new books, manage your borrowed items, and discover digital content. Find your local library branch easily.
- Search library catalog
- Browse new books
- Renew borrowed items
- Search digital content
- Find local library branches
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Search the SHARE shared library catalog in central and southern Illinois. Browse new books, renew your items, search digital content, and find your nearest library, all on the SHARE app. Your local library is at your fingertips!
BOX5
Access exclusive streaming content designed to inspire aspiring performers in marching bands, drum corps, color guards, and dance teams. This app delivers high-quality video experiences from compelling performances worldwide, produced by a team deeply passionate about the arts.
- Exclusive streaming content
- Inspires performers
- High-quality video experiences
- Focus on marching arts
- Content for dance teams
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Box5 TV streams exclusive media that inspires the next generation of performers, marching bands, concert bands, color guards, drum corps and dance teams. BOX5 Media strives to create and deliver the highest quality streaming experiences for the most compelling performances anywhere in the world. The BOX5 team is extremely passionate about video production and the arts and believe no other company can match this level of detail and expertise in the marching activity and media production. Founded in 1999 as an audio company, BOX5 Media is still a family business in 2021. Every person that works with BOX5 Media has been a member of; or taught; marching band, concert band, color guard, drum corps and / or a dance team. We know the arts, inside and out, we live and breathe to support the arts every way possible. The president of BOX5, Tim Snyder, is currently the brass caption head of the Troopers Drum Corps, from Casper, WY. “We have built BOX5 with our employees and our love for our activity. Every person associated with BOX5 knows the activity intimately. I don’t know of any other company that you can find that level of commitment in our field. To me, that is something very special and truly exciting. This is my passion; providing quality archiving and production for the arts programs and participants around the country. It’s not just what we do, It’s who we are. I LOVE MY JOB”
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SHARE Mobile Library at 67% against BOX5's 5%. SHARE Mobile Library also leads on rating (4.4 vs 1.5) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). BOX5's advantage is iOS requirement (13.2 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
SHARE Mobile Library holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 43 and 49 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of SHARE Mobile Library's written reviews are positive against 5% of BOX5's.
SHARE Mobile Library ships an update every 2 months, BOX5 every 6 months. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.
| Parameter | SHARE Mobile Library | BOX5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (43 ratings) — better | 1.5 (49 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 5.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 | 49 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Illinois Heartland Library System | GIDEO LLC |
Customer experience
SHARE Mobile Library
BOX5
In-app purchases
SHARE Mobile Library
No in-app purchases
BOX5
No in-app purchases
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