ACPL Mobile vs Cougar Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Cougar Events
Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter by organization or activity, and add events to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus happenings.
- Event discovery
- Filter by organization
- Filter by activity
- Add events to calendar
- Student engagement tools
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Use the University of Saint Francis Fort Wayne 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: Cougar Events at 4.8 against ACPL Mobile's 2.6. Cougar Events also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.6). ACPL Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 4). 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.
Cougar Events holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | ACPL Mobile | Cougar Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (14 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Allen County Public Library | Check I'm Here, LLC |
Customer experience
ACPL Mobile
Cougar Events
Bugs and 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
Cougar Events
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ACPL Mobile
No in-app purchases
Cougar Events
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is ACPL Mobile free?
Is Cougar Events free?
Which has better reviews, ACPL Mobile or Cougar Events?
Do ACPL Mobile or Cougar Events have ads?
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