Official MN State Fair App vs UTVS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Official MN State Fair App
Discover all the Minnesota State Fair has to offer with this official guide. Find food, shops, exhibits, entertainment, rides, and games. Access daily schedules, maps, ticket information, and transportation details.
- Fair Finder for food, shops, and exhibits
- Daily schedules
- Interactive maps
- Entertainment and rides information
- Ticket details
- Transportation guidance
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The new Official MN State Fair App features the popular Fair Finder, a tool to search for State Fair foods, specialty sips, shops and exhibits, plus daily schedules, maps and details on entertainment, rides & games, tickets, hours, getting to the fair and more.
UTVS
This application provides access to regional cable programming and live streaming content from an award-winning student-run college television station. It serves as an educational facility for students to learn media production and delivers high-quality programming to diverse audiences.
- Regional cable programming
- Live streaming content
- Student media production
- Diverse audience reach
- Educational facility
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UTVS Television (University Television Station) is an award-winning student run college television station on the campus of St. Cloud State University. The national award-winning student television station started operations in 1978 under the leadership of Scott Bryce. Today, UTVS is located in Stewart Hall, and provides regional cable programming in the St. Cloud and surrounding areas via Spectrum Channel 180, Spectrum Channel 426, Spectrum Channel 823 and streaming on a variety of apps. UTVS exists to provide the highest quality programming possible to St. Cloud State University, the St. Cloud community, Minnesota and surrounding states. UTVS reaches diverse audiences in local, regional and national markets through public access television and streaming services. UTVS serves as an educational facility where students learn how to produce high quality media content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UTVS at 5.0 against Official MN State Fair App's 3.1. UTVS also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 24%) and device support (4 vs 1). Official MN State Fair App's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (54 vs 7). 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.
UTVS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Official MN State Fair App has 54 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Official MN State Fair App's written reviews are positive against 50% of UTVS's.
Official MN State Fair App ships an update every 2 weeks, UTVS every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Official MN State Fair App | UTVS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (54 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.7% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Minnesota State Agricultural Society | Cablecast Community Media LLC |
Customer experience
Official MN State Fair App
UTVS
Bugs and requests
Official MN State Fair App
Reported bugs
6 issues- Latest update contains a major bug
- Favorited foods from previous years show up on main screen
- Map is a gray screen that won't go away
- Ticket purchase not working
- Search feature stalls
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- Main screen resets to August 22nd unexpectedly
Requested features
20 requests- Add page numbers for coupon book items
- Improve event list search
- Add food prices
- Allow pinning items to map
- Enable GPS navigation to locations
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- Allow planning efficient routes with pinned coordinates
- Improve search functionality to find specific items/locations
- Cross-link favorited foods/vendors
- Filter map by favorites
- Add mapping directions for walking
- Allow filtering by favorites on the map
- Add favorite flag to New Foods category
- Incorporate favorites filter to map
- Add ability to share favorites
- Allow selection to make a list of desired food
- Improve map accuracy for nearby vendors
- Allow saving new drinks and viewing them on map
- Enable easy creation of lists for food, drinks, and events
- Improve daily schedule to include more events
- Fix search functionality for events and locations
UTVS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Official MN State Fair App
No in-app purchases
UTVS
No in-app purchases
Questions
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