Notre Dame Mobile vs InitialView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Notre Dame Mobile
Access essential campus information and services from your mobile device. This app provides a variety of resources for students, faculty, and visitors.
- Campus information access
- Essential services
- Mobile convenience
- Anytime, anywhere access
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Get essential Notre Dame information & services anytime, anywhere on your mobile device. The ND Mobile App provides a variety of campus information and services on your mobile device.
InitialView
This platform provides live, unscripted interviews for academic program admissions. It helps assess applicants' English ability and interpersonal skills for boarding schools, undergraduate, and graduate programs worldwide. The service offers admission officers assurance through its proprietary interview technology.
- Live, unscripted interviews
- English ability assessment
- Interpersonal skills evaluation
- Proprietary interview platform
- Global admissions support
- Admission officer assurance
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For InitialView Students and Schools' Admission Officers' Use. InitialView was founded in Beijing, China in 2009, and in a short time it has become a world leader in interview services, having provided interviews to thousands of applicants to top academic programs. We provide live, unscripted interviews which are then uploaded to our proprietary interview platform. Our proprietary platform allows viewers to, within seconds, determine the interviewee’s English ability and interpersonal skills. Our technology is currently patent-pending in both the U.S. and China. Our interviews have been a part of more than 40,000 applications reviewed by over 200 boarding school, undergraduate, and graduate programs. We have interviewed applicants in over 50 countries. We are able to provide admission officers a level of assurance about our interviews, processes and operations in China in a way that is unmatched by others in international education.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Notre Dame Mobile at 3.7 against InitialView's 2.7. Notre Dame Mobile also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). InitialView's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Notre Dame Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 22 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Notre Dame Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of InitialView's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Notre Dame Mobile ships an update every 4 months, InitialView monthly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Notre Dame Mobile | InitialView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (22 ratings) — better | 2.7 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Notre Dame du Lac | Terry Crawford |
Customer experience
Notre Dame Mobile
InitialView
In-app purchases
Notre Dame Mobile
No in-app purchases
InitialView
No in-app purchases
Questions
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