Eventlink vs ACPL Mobile
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.
ACPL Mobile
Manage your library account on the go. Search the catalog, renew and reserve books, and discover upcoming events and programs. You can also reserve meeting spaces directly through the app.
- Manage library account
- Search catalog
- Renew books
- Reserve books
- Explore events and programs
- Reserve meeting space
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Access the Allen County Public Library from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Manage your account, search the catalog, renew and reserve books, explore events/programs, and reserve meeting space.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ACPL Mobile at 45% against Eventlink's 17%. Eventlink's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Eventlink holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of Eventlink's written reviews are positive against 45% of ACPL Mobile's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eventlink | ACPL Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (29 ratings) — better | 2.6 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 45.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 13 |
| 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 |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | School Datebooks Inc | Allen County Public Library |
Customer experience
Eventlink
ACPL Mobile
Bugs and requests
Eventlink
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ACPL Mobile
Reported bugs
60 issues- Login page goes blank
- App crashes when accessing lists
- Cannot scroll to bottom of saved lists
- Hold feature not working
- Library map not working
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- Reading lists disappear
- Cannot create new lists
- App won't let me sign in
- Adding books to lists backfires
- Pop-up window text color same as background
- System 100% useless since recent change
- Overdrive not working
- No more ebooks or audiobooks
- Kids need own username for cards
- Shows how many renewals remain
- App doesn't let me place holds
- Cannot recall all books on lost list
- App won't load properly
- Cannot see holds/checkouts
- Cannot renew online
- App shuts down on its own
- Doesn't show return dates
- Cannot renew checked out items
- Overdrive crashes
- Cannot scan book barcodes to look up
- Cannot place holds or put on reading list
- Large graphics in search screen are useless
- Cannot access account after update
- Cannot update settings
- Basic search tool only
- Constantly loading, never opens
- Cannot access account at all
- App disappears from home screen after download
- Cannot find DVD in app, but can on web
- Hangs on update command
- Cannot use app
- Cannot see if book is available
- Cannot navigate
- Cannot create an account
- App icons opens but no functionality
- Cannot renew materials
- Cannot check out without card
- Cannot use barcode
- Cannot pay fines
- Cannot find closest libraries and check hours
- Cannot access account information
- Search would be better
- More options to search specifically
- Cannot see items checked out
- Cannot scan ISBN barcodes
- Cannot have multiple users in the same app
- Featuring events for different branches is a smart option
- App is not glitchy
- App doesn't crash
- Cannot renew items
- Cannot place holds
- Cannot use as library card
- Cannot check when items are due
- Cannot set app to send push notifications
- Cannot view library hours and events schedules
Requested features
9 requests- Push notifications
- Search by series or author
- Search recent checkouts
- Face ID or keep logged in
- Dark mode
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- Ebooks for lending
- Organizable searches
- Request new book ordering
- Scan phone for parking validation
In-app purchases
Eventlink
No in-app purchases
ACPL Mobile
No in-app purchases
