UCLA Mobile vs GID
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.
GID
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Work for GID as a personal assistant for students! (And you take it from there and add to it)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: UCLA Mobile at none against GID's shown. GID's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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, GID every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | UCLA Mobile | GID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of California, Los Angeles | GID STORE LLC |
In-app purchases
UCLA Mobile
No in-app purchases
GID
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is UCLA Mobile free?
Is GID free?
Do UCLA Mobile or GID have ads?
Which is updated more often, UCLA Mobile or GID?
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