Comparison

CSULB App vs ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Event and class calendar
  • Academic tools access
  • Deadline reminders
  • Campus event discovery
  • Campus services information
  • Push notifications
  • Campus map
Features
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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.

About

ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator

This app facilitates communication between parents, caregivers, teachers, and curriculum developers to track a child's educational growth and experiences. It aims to foster interactions that support comprehensive learning and development, especially during early childhood.

Highlights
  • Connects parents, caregivers, and teachers
  • Tracks child's growth and experiences
  • Encourages interaction for learning support
  • Facilitates parent engagement
  • Supports early childhood development
Features
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ChildFolio connects all stakeholders-parents,caregivers,teachers,curriculum developers-with a vested interest in a child's educational outcomes together, with common visibility into the child's growth,experiences, successes and struggles, in a way that encourages interactions with the child to further support their comprehensive learning. We are born to learn.An infant's brain grows rapidly and remains highly"plastic"or malleable during the first five years. Important creative thinking and social-emotional skills must take root early on to become stable parts of their evolving minds. Interactions with adults, activities with physical materials,and free play with peers all set the stage for learning that has been shown-time and again-to lead to future academic, professional and personal success. Parents are now able to learn, monitor,and engage more with their children via with informal media We believe that if parents can incorporate a parent-facing reporting system into their busy lives, this data has the potential to encourage and support parent behaviors which improve learning for children.

Screenshots

CSULB App4 screens
ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CSULB App at 4.5 against ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator's 2.3. CSULB App also leads on ratings volume (550 vs 3). ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 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

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

CSULB App holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CSULB App has 550 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CSULB App ships an update every 2 months, ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 22, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
CSULB App versus ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCSULB AppChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (550 ratings) — better2.3 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews72.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings550 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB48 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCSU Long BeachMCT Technology, Inc.

Customer experience

CSULB App

All ratings550 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive72.6%
Neutral3.2%
Negative24.2%

ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

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

ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CSULB App

No in-app purchases

None

ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CSULB App free?
CSULB App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator free?
ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CSULB App or ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator?
CSULB App is rated higher. CSULB App averages 4.5 out of 5 from 550 ratings, while ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator averages 2.3 from 3 ratings.
Do CSULB App or ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator have ads?
Neither CSULB App nor ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CSULB App or ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator?
CSULB App ships an update every 2 months, and ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator every 5 weeks. Most recently, CSULB App was updated on August 22, 2026 and ChildFolio 2.0 CA Educator on June 11, 2026.

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