Comparison

Modern Campus Involve vs Second Course

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Discover organizations
  • Find tagged events
  • Sync events to calendar
  • View Digital ID
  • Run Event Check-In
  • Facilitate event check-in
Features
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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.

About

Second Course

Discover free food events on your college campus. Receive alerts for snacks, meals, and desserts, claim your portion, and pick it up. It's also a tool for organizations to attract members and for universities to address food insecurity and waste.

Highlights
  • Free food alerts
  • Claim food portions
  • Event notifications
  • Food waste reduction
  • Food security improvement
  • Campus-wide availability
Features
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Second Course is a new way for students to get themselves fed on their college campus! Students can get notifications of free food, snacks, refreshments, or even desserts on campus. Simply see an alert, claim a portion, then you are ready to pick up your prize. Great for clubs and event organizers who ordered too much food. Use Second Course to get more members! Also an effective resource for universities to improve food security among college students, as well as food waste on campus! Currently only available at San Diego State University.

Screenshots

Modern Campus Involve4 screens
Second Course4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Second Course at 100% against Modern Campus Involve's 14%. Second Course also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9). Modern Campus Involve's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (56 vs 2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Second Course holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Modern Campus Involve has 56 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of Modern Campus Involve's written reviews are positive against 100% of Second Course's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and July 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Modern Campus Involve versus Second Course: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModern Campus InvolveSecond Course
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (56 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings56 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCheck I'm Here, LLCDaniel Self

Customer experience

Modern Campus Involve

All ratings56 ratings
Positive21.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative78.6%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative82.9%

Second Course

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Modern Campus Involve

No in-app purchases

None

Second Course

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Modern Campus Involve free?
Modern Campus Involve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Second Course free?
Second Course is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Modern Campus Involve or Second Course?
Second Course is rated higher. Modern Campus Involve averages 1.9 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Second Course averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Modern Campus Involve or Second Course have ads?
Second Course shows ads; Modern Campus Involve does not.
Which is updated more often, Modern Campus Involve or Second Course?
Modern Campus Involve ships an update every 3 weeks, and Second Course every 3 weeks. Most recently, Modern Campus Involve was updated on September 21, 2026 and Second Course on July 17, 2026.

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