CSULB App vs Campus Life @ State
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CSULB App
Manage your academic life and connect with your campus community. Stay organized with event and class schedules, receive important notifications, and access campus resources. Discover activities, join groups, and navigate campus easily.
- Event and class calendar
- Academic tools access
- Deadline reminders
- Campus event discovery
- Campus services information
- Push notifications
- Campus map
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The CSULB app brings California State University, Long Beach to your fingertips, keeping you connected to everything happening on campus. Discover events, join student organizations, access your classes, track deadlines, and explore campus resources all in one place. Designed to support your campus experience, the app makes it easy to stay organized, engaged, and informed. Connect with your community, navigate campus life, and never miss what matters, wherever you are.
Campus Life @ State
Discover and get involved with events happening at San Diego State University. Filter events by organization or activity and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus life.
- Event discovery
- Filter by organization
- Filter by activity
- Add events to calendar
- Student engagement tools
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Use the San Diego State University 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CSULB App at 4.5 against Campus Life @ State's 3.8. CSULB App also leads on ratings volume (550 vs 4). Campus Life @ State's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.1). 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.
CSULB App holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CSULB App has 550 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CSULB App ships an update every 2 months, Campus Life @ State every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CSULB App | Campus Life @ State |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (550 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 550 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CSU Long Beach | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
CSULB App
Campus Life @ State
Bugs and requests
CSULB App
Reported bugs
10 issues- Automatic logout upon login
- Double login requirement for BeachBoard
- Content not loading in tabs
- Desktop version of BeachBoard instead of mobile
- Page refresh losing user position in documents
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- Cannot zoom into documents
- Inconsistent session persistence
- In-app browser functionality limited
- GPS lag on shuttle map
- Unexpected co-payment charges without notification
Requested features
10 requests- Stay logged in option across sessions
- Simultaneous multi-device login capability
- Event and athletic notification system
- Mobile-optimized BeachBoard version
- Document access and printing from classes
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- Dropbox folder integration for submissions
- Parking lot occupancy tracking
- Session persistence when exiting app
- Native BeachBoard app instead of browser wrapper
- MyCSULB integration instead of weather tab
Campus Life @ State
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CSULB App
No in-app purchases
Campus Life @ State
No in-app purchases
Questions
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