Comparison

Modern Campus Involve vs UCM Hub

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

UCM Hub

Discover real-time campus events on an interactive map. Quickly find activities, workshops, and meetings happening around you, eliminating the need to search multiple websites. Stay informed about campus life and increase involvement.

Highlights
  • Interactive event mapping
  • Instant event details
  • Date filtering
  • Quick navigation
  • Visualize campus life
Features
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Navigate UC Merced to discover and contribute to campus life through an interactive map that brings events, places, and wildlife sightings together in one visual experience. Spend less time searching through lists and websites and more time engaging with what is happening around you. Discover Campus Life: See events where they happen, browse by date, check times and room locations, and search naturally for activities and campus information relevant to you. Contribute to Campus: Capture wildlife sightings you encounter around UC Merced and add them to the map, helping build a shared record of campus wildlife and encouraging greater awareness of the environment around you. Whether you are looking for something to do, trying to reach a destination, or contributing something you noticed along the way, UCM Hub is designed to make campus easier to discover and participate in. Disclaimer: This application is an independent student-led project and is not officially affiliated with the University of California, Merced. Support: For questions or feedback, please visit our support page or email us. https://campusmap.ucmercedhub.com/support/ contact@ucmercedhub.com

Screenshots

Modern Campus Involve4 screens
UCM Hub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: UCM Hub at 5.0 against Modern Campus Involve's 1.8. Modern Campus Involve's advantage is ratings volume (60 vs 1). 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

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

UCM Hub holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Modern Campus Involve has 60 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Modern Campus Involve ships an update every 3 weeks, UCM Hub monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Modern Campus Involve versus UCM Hub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModern Campus InvolveUCM Hub
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (60 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings60 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCheck I'm Here, LLCflavio herrera

Customer experience

Modern Campus Involve

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

UCM Hub

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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
Show 25 more
  • 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

UCM Hub

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Modern Campus Involve

No in-app purchases

None

UCM Hub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Modern Campus Involve free?
Modern Campus Involve is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is UCM Hub free?
UCM Hub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Modern Campus Involve or UCM Hub?
UCM Hub is rated higher. Modern Campus Involve averages 1.8 out of 5 from 60 ratings, while UCM Hub averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Modern Campus Involve or UCM Hub have ads?
Neither Modern Campus Involve nor UCM Hub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Modern Campus Involve or UCM Hub?
Modern Campus Involve ships an update every 3 weeks, and UCM Hub monthly. Most recently, Modern Campus Involve was updated on November 3, 2026 and UCM Hub on October 31, 2026.

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