UC San Diego vs Spatial Vis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UC San Diego
Access essential campus information and services with a mobile-first approach. Log in securely, view your schedule, find dining options, and navigate campus with ease. Stay updated on news and events, and access your student or employee ID.
- Single Sign-On login
- Class and finals schedule
- Student/Employee ID
- Campus map search
- Dining locations
- Shuttle arrival times
- Campus news and events
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The official UC San Diego Mobile app connects you to the UC San Diego campus with mobile-focused: • User login with Single Sign-On • Class and finals schedule information • Student and Employee ID • Dining locations • Shuttle arrivals • Campus busyness • Campus news and events • Access to MyUCSDChart • Map search • TritonGPT
Spatial Vis
This app trains students in engineering and science to improve their freehand sketching of 2D and 3D views. Mastering these skills enhances technical communication and spatial visualization, which can lead to better academic performance. It offers interactive lessons and automatic grading for assignments.
- Freehand sketching of 2D and 3D views
- Orthographic projections lessons
- 3D object rotations
- Flat pattern sketching
- Automatic sketch grading
- Gamified learning with hints
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Spatial Vis is a training tool for engineering, pre-engineering, and other science and technology students. The app teaches freehand sketching of 2D and 3D views, which is an important skill for technical communication and improving one's ability to visualize shapes in 3D. These skills have been shown to increase GPAs and graduation rates in STEM. Spatial Vis has 10 unique lessons that include orthographic projections, rotations of 3D objects, and flat patterns. Students complete assignments by sketching their solution and submitting their sketch to be automatically graded. Students have access to hints if they get stuck, but Spatial Vis is gamified to encourage students to try on their own before using the help features. Spatial Vis is designed for students enrolled in a course at a participating institution. Instructors and students not at participating institutions may work on assignments and review the course material through the Not For Course Credit mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spatial Vis at every 5 days against UC San Diego's every 3 months. Spatial Vis also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). UC San Diego's advantage is review sentiment (51% vs 27%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.1 for UC San Diego against 3.0 for Spatial Vis. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 23 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 51% of UC San Diego's written reviews are positive against 27% of Spatial Vis's.
UC San Diego ships an update every 3 months, Spatial Vis every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UC San Diego | Spatial Vis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (61 ratings) — better | 3.0 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.6% of reviews — better | 26.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 61 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of California, San Diego (Business Affairs) | eGrove Education, Inc. |
Customer experience
UC San Diego
Spatial Vis
Bugs and requests
UC San Diego
Reported bugs
33 issues- App needs to be deleted and reinstalled every few weeks
- Login doesn't work without opening and closing the app
- Cards don't stay on consistently
- Map is dysfunctional
- Building searches yield no or spurious results
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- Parking structures removed
- Shuttle tracker is not functional
- Loading errors and no useful data
- App doesn't always save personalized card selection
- Cannot personalize Cards selection sometimes
- Option to see classes doesn't show up
- Restaurant/market hours are inaccurate
- Functions disappear after reinstalling
- ID card function disappears
- ID card shows loading throbber
- ID card not successful with various internet connections
- App not formatted for iPhone 10 sizes
- Classes card always shows Monday
- App is cluttered and unprofessional
- App fails to open
- App crashes on startup
- App crashes after updates
- App quits unexpectedly
- App is slow and less usable
- Webpage doesn't fit properly within the app frame
- App is filled with bugs
- Update made the app completely useless
- Too many bugs
- Clunky approach to accessing bus map
- Map doesn't show current location
- Login process is difficult
- Recent updates have improved the user experience
- New AI features will be available soon
Requested features
32 requests- Bring back the previous shuttle tracker
- Bring back Hopkins and Gilman parking structures
- Add option to hide restaurants or favorite them
- List restaurants by closest to farthest
- Push notification when class starts
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- Bring back class/bus schedule cards
- Integrate Bus map with GPS tracking
- List of upcoming seminars and their locations
- Ability to electronically buy a parking permit
- Access to various blink services
- Integration of Calit Southern California Traffic App
- Inclusion of access to AtYourService
- Add events from Student Flyers
- Add a calendar feature
- Add student login with course information
- Use push notification for events, emergencies, class changes
- Integrate UCSD bus schedule into the app
- Add course information to calendar
- Include amount of open seats in course discussions/lectures
- Button for UCSD news
- iPad version
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Make the app more intuitive
- Improve UI for scrolling through cards
- Add a search function for buildings
- Make the map more functional
- Add current location to the map
- Provide walking directions
- Make ID card more consistent
- Improve login process
- Add AI features
Spatial Vis
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
UC San Diego
No in-app purchases
Spatial Vis
No in-app purchases
