UCLA Mobile vs Campuswire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UCLA Mobile
This app serves as a central hub for UCLA resources and applications. It allows users to discover and access various UCLA apps, and personalize their own dashboard with frequently used ones for quick access.
- Centralized app dashboard
- Personalized app collection
- Quick access to UCLA apps
- App-to-app launching
- UCLA app catalog access
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The UCLA mobile app is a mobile portal that blends UCLA content and resource links while also featuring UCLA's dynamic app landscape collected into a sliding Apps dashboard for the ease of UCLA's broad and diverse community. This allows the UCLA community to present a collection of UCLA's important apps while also allowing individuals to personalize their own dashboard with additional UCLA apps that they want to include in their UCLA mobile app environment. The app features app to app launches so that users have quick access into all of UCLA's native apps, listed in the UCLA app catalog.
Campuswire
This tool simplifies class discussions, Q&A, and announcements for college courses. It provides an easy-to-use platform for students and instructors to engage with course material and each other.
- Class discussions
- Q&A functionality
- Announcements
- Simplified communication
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Campuswire is the tool for college classes that makes class discussions, Q&A and announcements extremely simple.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Campuswire at 63 against UCLA Mobile's 8. Campuswire also leads on review sentiment (10% vs 0%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.5 for UCLA Mobile against 2.5 for Campuswire. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Campuswire has 63 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of UCLA Mobile's written reviews are positive against 10% of Campuswire's.
UCLA Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, Campuswire monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 21, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UCLA Mobile | Campuswire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (8 ratings) | 2.5 (63 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 9.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 63 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of California, Los Angeles | CampusTech, Inc. |
Customer experience
UCLA Mobile
Campuswire
In-app purchases
UCLA Mobile
No in-app purchases
Campuswire
No in-app purchases
