Guidebook vs TSA Virginia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guidebook
This application serves as a comprehensive guide for events, conferences, and campuses. Users can build personalized schedules, access detailed information about speakers and sponsors, and navigate venues with interactive maps. It also facilitates attendee engagement through messaging and a social feed.
- Personalized schedule and to-do lists
- Speaker and sponsor information
- Venue and local area maps
- In-app search functionality
- Attendee messaging and engagement
- Interactive social feed
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Guidebook is your guide to events, conferences, campuses, and more. Download the app to: [+] Build your personal schedule and to-do lists. [+] Easily access speaker, sponsor, exhibitor information, and more. [+] View maps of the venue and local area. [+] Simply search for information within the app. [+] Connect and engage with other attendees through private messages. [+] Share photos, likes, and comments on the interactive social feed.
TSA Virginia
This app helps attendees of a student leadership conference navigate the event schedule and find important information. It provides details on event times, locations, and allows filtering of the agenda by audience. Attendees can also access organizational information, officer details, and scholarship opportunities.
- Event agenda navigation
- Event time and location details
- Conference space maps
- Agenda filtering by audience
- Searchable event listings
- Organizational information
- Officer and voting details
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TSA VA allows attendees of Technosphere (the annual state student leadership conference and competition for the Virginia Technology Student Association) to navigate the agenda. The app details event times and locations. Maps are available to help attendees navigate the conference space. The agenda can be filtered to show events for the general audience, middle school competitors, high school competitors, officer candidates and/or voting delegates. The agenda can also be searched to find specific competitions or events. The app contains extra information for attendees such as the mission/vision/motto/creed of Virginia TSA, current state officers, the ballot of officers for next year, voting capability, list of speakers, scholarship offerings, special awards, information regarding the national conference, amendments and resolutions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Guidebook at 52% against TSA Virginia's 0%. Guidebook also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.9) and ratings volume (3.7K vs 17). TSA Virginia's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). 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.
Guidebook holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guidebook has 3.7K ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Guidebook's written reviews are positive against 0% of TSA Virginia's.
Guidebook ships an update every 2 weeks, TSA Virginia every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Guidebook | TSA Virginia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3.7K ratings) — better | 2.9 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.7K — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guidebook Inc | EventFull, LLC |
Customer experience
Guidebook
TSA Virginia
Bugs and requests
Guidebook
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when trying to view event details
- Inability to add custom events to schedule
- Incorrect location pinpointing on maps
- Notification issues and unwanted alerts
Requested features
5 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to sync schedule across devices
- More customization options for user profile
- Better event filtering and search capabilities
- Integration with calendar apps
TSA Virginia
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Guidebook
No in-app purchases
TSA Virginia
No in-app purchases
