UR Mobile vs HoloPatient
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UR Mobile
This official university app provides students, faculty, and staff with essential campus information. Access bus schedules, event listings, directory searches, emergency services, and campus maps. Stay updated with the latest news and athletic scores.
- Campus maps and building search
- Student and faculty directory
- Event listings and calendars
- Athletics news, schedules, and scores
- Campus news updates
- Course descriptions and schedules
- Bus schedules and real-time transit
- Emergency procedures and contacts
- Library catalog and hours
- Parking availability and maps
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UR Mobile is the official mobile app for the University of Rochester. You can use the app throughout the day to find essential information and to quickly check bus schedules, browse events, search the directory, access emergency services, and much more. Features: Maps – Search for buildings on any of UR’s six campuses. See your relative location. Directory – Look up students in the UR directory. Events – Check out listings of art and performance events from the University’s main calendar. Athletics – See up-to-date news stories, schedules and scores for your favorite Yellowjacket teams. News – Get the latest news stories from across the campus, including the Medical Center. Courses – See course descriptions, times, locations for classes in any of the schools for the current and upcoming term. Buses - View University of Rochester bus lines and schedules. See whether your bus is currently in transit to your location. Safety and Emergencies - Be prepared with emergency procedures, emergency contacts, and location services features to help keep you safe on campus. Libraries - Browse the catalog or look up hours quickly and easily. Provides easy mobile access to all of the University's libraries websites. Parking - Quick links to parking maps and bus schedules. Also view current, up-to-date information about availability of parking spots in Medical Center lots, including overflow locations.
HoloPatient
This app enables remote, immersive learning experiences using augmented reality on phones and tablets. Students can view and interact with holographic content shared by instructors in real-time, fostering collaborative educational outcomes.
- Remote AR learning sessions
- Holographic content projection
- Interactive 3D examination
- Live content updates
- Collaborative instructor-led learning
- VoIP communication
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GIG Mobile is an extension to the GIG Immersive Learning System that allows users to join sessions using AR-enabled phones and tablets. Through extended reality (XR), it allows for the transportation of holographic content to remote student locations where they can be viewed and examined by students during collaborative instructor-led sessions. The app is free to download and use for anyone with a GIGXR Immersive Learning System account. Key features: Remote and/or socially distanced student groups connect with their instructor, who is wearing Microsoft HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset, using their AR-enabled iPhone. High quality holographic session content is transported to the student location during the session and updated live as the instructor makes changes. Students use the augmented reality features of their Apple device to select a location in their room for the holographic content to be placed. Students can independently walk around, examine and interact with the holographic content while communicating with their instructor through VoIP Collaborative learning among the group facilitates highly effective learning outcomes GIG Mobile interacts with the GIG Immersive Learning System, an XR teaching system designed to enhance, not replace, existing curriculum and teaching methods. For more information on the GIG Immersive Learning System, please email sales@gigxr.com to request a demo today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HoloPatient at 5.0 against UR Mobile's 3.7. HoloPatient also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). UR Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (10 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HoloPatient holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: UR Mobile has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
UR Mobile ships an update every 5 months, HoloPatient every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UR Mobile | HoloPatient |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 643 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Rochester | GIGXR, Inc. |
Customer experience
UR Mobile
HoloPatient
In-app purchases
UR Mobile
No in-app purchases
HoloPatient
No in-app purchases
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