MIT Mobile vs Brain Bump
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
Brain Bump
Access and organize valuable insights from various content creators. Schedule reminders for key information, transforming daily affirmations into actionable advice. Search for specific tips when you need them, offering a streamlined approach to knowledge retention.
- Access content creator tips
- Organize content into sets
- Schedule reminders for information
- Searchable content library
- Actionable advice delivery
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Brain Bump lets you access top tips from authors, podcasters, bloggers and other content creators. You can add sets content (e.g. from a book) to your app and then set when to get a reminder of it. Think of a daily affirmation but with the useful, actionable advice you want. You can also search through the content to find the advice you want, when you want it. It combines the best functionality of flashcard apps and book summary apps, but requires less effort on your part than any of them.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brain Bump at 5.0 against MIT Mobile's 2.3. Brain Bump also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). MIT Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 5). 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.
Brain Bump holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MIT Mobile has 28 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of MIT Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Brain Bump's.
MIT Mobile ships an update every 4 months, Brain Bump monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 16, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MIT Mobile | Brain Bump |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cognosco Media LLC |
Customer experience
MIT Mobile
Brain Bump
In-app purchases
MIT Mobile
No in-app purchases
Brain Bump
No in-app purchases
