MIT Mobile vs Imperial Guides
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MIT Mobile
Access essential MIT services on your iOS device. Stay updated with campus news, track shuttles, navigate with a searchable map, and manage your library account. Find events, dining information, and report maintenance issues.
- Campus News
- Live Shuttle Tracking
- Searchable Campus Map
- Event Calendar
- Directory Search
- Library Account Management
- Dining Menus
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MIT Mobile brings many essential Institute services to the iOS user: • Campus News from the MIT News Office • Live campus shuttle tracking • Searchable campus map • Calendar of events, exhibits, holidays, and the academic calendar • Searchable directory of faculty, staff, and students at MIT • Information about MIT Tours • Information about Campus Emergencies • MIT Libraries account management and catalog search • MIT Dining menus and hours • Report campus maintenance issues directly from your iOS device • A QR code and barcode scanner
Imperial Guides
This app provides guides for prospective and current students of Imperial College London. It features a self-guided campus tour and specific guides for certain Business School courses and Global Summer Schools.
- Self-guided campus tour
- Guides for Business School courses
- Information for Global Summer Schools
- Assistance for prospective students
- Information for current students
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The Imperial Guides app contains a series of different guides to assist current and prospective students at Imperial College London. The app hosts the self-guided tour of the South Kensington campus for prospective students and supporters. It is not required for most Imperial students. Dedicated guides are only used for: - Particular Business School courses - Imperial Global Summer Schools If there's a guide for these programmes meant for you to use, you'll receive further information about this directly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Imperial Guides at 5.0 against MIT Mobile's 2.4. Imperial Guides also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). MIT Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 1). 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.
Imperial Guides holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MIT Mobile has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
MIT Mobile ships an update every 5 months, Imperial Guides every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MIT Mobile | Imperial Guides |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Imperial College London |
Customer experience
MIT Mobile
Imperial Guides
In-app purchases
MIT Mobile
No in-app purchases
Imperial Guides
No in-app purchases
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