Comparison

IU Mobile vs Cougar Events

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

IU Mobile

This app serves as a central hub for Indiana University students, consolidating essential information and services from various university systems. It provides a personalized experience to help students navigate their academic journey, access updates, and find support.

Highlights
  • University message center
  • Access to updates and services
  • Search for support
  • Content from Knowledge base, People, One.IU
  • Personalized student experience
Features
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IU Mobile is a digital gateway for Indiana University students. It pulls together information and services from multiple systems to helps current students navigate learning at IU from one native environment. In other words, it’s a personalized, custom experience for all IU audiences. IU Mobile lets students get messages from the university, access updates and services on the main pages, or search for support. It pulls in content from Knowledge base, People, One.IU, and places information--so students are always up-to-date.

About

Cougar Events

Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter by organization or activity, and add events to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus happenings.

Highlights
  • Event discovery
  • Filter by organization
  • Filter by activity
  • Add events to calendar
  • Student engagement tools
Features
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Use the University of Saint Francis Fort Wayne Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus! • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

IU Mobile4 screens
Cougar Events3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cougar Events at 4.8 against IU Mobile's 3.9. Cougar Events also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). IU Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (187 vs 4). 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

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

Cougar Events holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IU Mobile has 187 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
IU Mobile versus Cougar Events: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIU MobileCougar Events
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (187 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews35.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings187 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.06.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size87 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndiana UniversityCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

IU Mobile

All ratings187 ratings
Positive68.4%
Neutral8.0%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews101 reviews
Positive35.6%
Neutral7.9%
Negative56.4%

Cougar Events

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

IU Mobile

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes on startup or during use
  • Login loops - requires re-authentication constantly
  • Update required message with no available update
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
  • Screen rotation issues on iPad
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  • Crimson Card not visible on smaller devices (iPhone SE)
  • Email loading icon stuck indefinitely
  • Randomly opens wrong emails
  • Class schedule reverts to previous semesters
  • Widget fails to update schedule
  • Duo authentication not displaying
  • App closes immediately after opening
  • Cannot access laundry, dining, or class information
  • Keyboard doesn't display properly
  • Connection failures despite strong internet

Requested features

14 requests
  • Save username and password securely
  • Biometric login (Face ID/fingerprint)
  • Grade book access
  • Reply to class messages functionality
  • Faculty-specific features for instructors
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  • Syllabus tab access
  • OneStart integration
  • Canvas/course assignment details
  • Laundry status checking
  • Dining hall hours display
  • Sports schedule information
  • Persistent login sessions
  • Dark mode option
  • Widget functionality for class schedules

Cougar Events

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

IU Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

Cougar Events

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IU Mobile free?
IU Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cougar Events free?
Cougar Events is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, IU Mobile or Cougar Events?
Cougar Events is rated higher. IU Mobile averages 3.9 out of 5 from 187 ratings, while Cougar Events averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do IU Mobile or Cougar Events have ads?
Neither IU Mobile nor Cougar Events shows ads.

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