SDSU Safe vs Modern Campus Involve
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SDSU Safe
This official campus safety application provides students, faculty, and staff with enhanced security on university grounds. It offers emergency contact options, real-time location sharing with friends, incident reporting, and access to support resources and campus maps.
- Emergency contacts
- Friend Walk location sharing
- Report incidents
- Support resources access
- Campus map navigation
- Safety notifications
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SDSU Safe is the official safety app of San Diego State University. It is the only app that integrates with SDSU’s safety and security systems. Campus Security has worked to develop a unique app that provides students, faculty and staff with added safety on the SDSU campus. The app will send you important safety alerts and provide instant access to campus safety resources. SDSU Safe features include: - Emergency Contacts: Contact the correct services for the SDSU area in case of an emergency or a non-emergency concern - Friend Walk: Send your location to a friend through email or SMS on your device. Once the friend accepts the Friend Walk request, the user picks their destination and their friend tracks their location in real time; they can keep an eye on them to make sure they make it safely to their destination. - Report an Incident: Multiple ways to report a safety/security concern directly to SDSU Police. - Support Resources: Access support resources in one convenient app to enjoy a successful experience at SDSU. - Be Prepared: Enhance your safety with the set of tools provided in one convenient app. - Campus Map: Navigate around the SDSU area. - Safety Notifications: Receive instant notifications and instructions from SDSU Police when on-campus emergencies occur. Download today to ensure you’re prepared in the event of an emergency.
Modern Campus Involve
Discover campus organizations and events, sync them to your calendar, and check into activities using your digital ID. Leaders can also manage event check-ins within the app. It's designed to boost student engagement and track involvement.
- Discover organizations
- Find tagged events
- Sync events to calendar
- View Digital ID
- Run Event Check-In
- Facilitate event check-in
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Use the all-new Modern Campus Involve app to find out how you can get involved on campus, check-in to events with your Digital ID, and more! Organization leaders and administrators can also facilitate the event check-in process all in the same application. • Discover organizations to get involved in • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Sync interesting events to your calendar • View your Digital ID • Run Event Check-In • And More! Powered by Modern Campus Involve. Involve provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, track and measure learning, and improve retention.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SDSU Safe at 3.0 against Modern Campus Involve's 1.9. SDSU Safe also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Modern Campus Involve's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (56 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SDSU Safe holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Modern Campus Involve has 56 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SDSU Safe ships an update every 12 months, Modern Campus Involve every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | SDSU Safe | Modern Campus Involve |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.9 (56 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 56 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | San Diego State University | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
SDSU Safe
Modern Campus Involve
Bugs and requests
SDSU Safe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Modern Campus Involve
Reported bugs
30 issues- Login trouble
- App crashes
- Search bar does not work
- Categories in search bar are unhelpful
- Garbage backend
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- Login error for campus
- Camera not working (iPhone 15)
- Won't ask permission for camera
- App steals information
- Can't find school/nothing to click
- Can't sign in
- Presence not good for college
- Used by schools to track students
- Can't log in
- Login Issue
- Not worth downloading
- Failed to log in
- App suuuuuucks
- Won't let me log in
- Can't log in to start using it
- Gave me Ebola
- Caused grandma to die from cancer
- Made parents divorce
- Keeps giving option to log in after many tries
- Link does not load for student account
- Stuck on first screen
- Stuck on intro page
- Won't work on iPhone and iPad
- Won't let me past location select screen
- Stuck on the first page after opening
Requested features
5 requests- 💡 Improve login system
- 💡 Fix search functionality
- 💡 Enable camera for check-ins on iPhone 15
- 💡 Provide clarity on data usage
- 💡 Offer a regular check-in system alternative
In-app purchases
SDSU Safe
No in-app purchases
Modern Campus Involve
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SDSU Safe free?
Is Modern Campus Involve free?
Which has better reviews, SDSU Safe or Modern Campus Involve?
Do SDSU Safe or Modern Campus Involve have ads?
Which is updated more often, SDSU Safe or Modern Campus Involve?
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