UCLA Mobile vs Safety Check Students
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.
Safety Check Students
This app connects students to local emergency services and allows them to notify their university of emergencies. It also enables universities to proactively check on student safety.
- Connects to local emergency services
- Notifies university of emergencies
- University safety check-ins
- Real-time safety status updates
- Developed for students in international programs
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Safety Check Students is an app specifically developed for students, who partake in an international program, and that connects them to local emergency services and allows them to notify the University of emergency situations and needs. The app also allows the University to contact its students to check on their safety status at all times while the app is active
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: UCLA Mobile at every 3 weeks against Safety Check Students's every 2 months. Safety Check Students's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, 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.
UCLA Mobile ships an update every 3 weeks, Safety Check Students every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UCLA Mobile | Safety Check Students |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of California, Los Angeles | Wave Marketing |
Customer experience
UCLA Mobile
Safety Check Students
In-app purchases
UCLA Mobile
No in-app purchases
Safety Check Students
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is UCLA Mobile free?
Is Safety Check Students free?
Do UCLA Mobile or Safety Check Students have ads?
Which is updated more often, UCLA Mobile or Safety Check Students?
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