Eventlink vs FIRST Champaign
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eventlink
Stay informed about school activities like sports, clubs, and arts. Receive real-time updates, cancellations, and summaries directly from your school. Organize your schedule and never miss an important event.
- Real-time event updates
- Customizable calendar following
- Daily summaries and alerts
- Event scheduling and management
- Communication tools for teams
- Official assignment tracking
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Eventlink® keeps you in the loop with everything happening at your school: sports, clubs, fine arts, and more. With the Eventlink® app, you can create an account, follow only the calendars you care about, and get real-time updates. It's all organized in one app, intentionally built for your needs. For the Parents: Stay Connected Your kids enjoy sports, clubs, theater and band, but keeping up with them is challenging. Avoid missed games, last-minute surprises, or searching for updates. Eventlink® sends daily summaries, real-time changes, cancellations, weather alerts and more, directly from your school's administration. For the Students: Stay Organized Never miss a game, practice, or performance. The Eventlink® app gives you the latest information for all of the events and activities you choose to follow from your school or university, or any other school registered with Eventlink®. Stay up-to-date in one personalized calendar. For the School Staff: Simplify the Day-to-Day Manage your responsibilities from anywhere. Use the app to schedule games and events, cancel activities, post announcements, pay officials, and more. The tools you use on the web are now just as easy to access on your phone. For the Coaches: Keep Your Team on Track Manage team schedules, send quick updates, and stay connected with players and parents. Whether you're on the field or on the go, Eventlink® helps keep everything running smoothly. For the Officials: Keep Everything in One Spot View assignments, manage your availability, track your travel details, and update your payment and tax info right from the app. Eventlink® helps you stay ready and up to date.
FIRST Champaign
This app connects users to a church community, offering live services, past messages, and Bible study resources. It facilitates spiritual growth through daily reading plans and provides tools for group communication and financial contributions.
- Live service streaming
- Access past messages
- Read or listen to the Bible
- Daily Bible reading plans
- Group messaging
- Online giving
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Here’s the deal, First Christian Church cares about one thing more than anything else, Jesus Christ. First is a family of individuals that have found hope in Jesus, and simply want as many people as possible to experience that same freedom. FIRST's mission is to help each other surrender to Jesus. Through the app, you can: • Join us for live services • watch or listen to past messages • read or listen to the Bible • explore daily Bible reading plans • get help with next steps • message Group members • give to the mission of Jesus through FIRST • and more! Mobile app version: 6.23.8
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FIRST Champaign at 100% against Eventlink's 17%. FIRST Champaign also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0). Eventlink's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 3). 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.
FIRST Champaign holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Eventlink has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Eventlink's written reviews are positive against 100% of FIRST Champaign's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eventlink | FIRST Champaign |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (29 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | School Datebooks Inc | First Christian Church App |
Customer experience
Eventlink
FIRST Champaign
In-app purchases
Eventlink
No in-app purchases
FIRST Champaign
No in-app purchases
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