Mammoth Mobile vs InitialView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mammoth Mobile
Access campus events, dining menus, social media, and essential resources for the Amherst College community. Stay informed about campus life, health programs, and athletics, all in one place.
- Campus Event Calendar
- Dining Services Menus
- Social Media Access
- Health and Wellness Information
- Campus Map
- Amherst College Store Access
- Athletics Updates
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Mammoth Mobile is the official app for the Amherst College campus community, with a focus on campus events, dining services, social media and other Amherst resources. Mammoth Mobile features: Campus Event Calendar: Find out what’s happening around campus. Dining Services menus: Check the menus for Valentine Dining, Grab-n-Go, Frost Café and the Science Center Café. Social Media: Quick access to Amherst’s Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and LinkedIn accounts. Health and Wellness: Learn about comprehensive programs to address personal health and safety, campus emergency preparedness, environmental safety, and more. Amherst in Pictures and Amherst in Videos: See photo galleries and videos of events that recently took place around campus. Amherst College Store: At the College’s official online store you’ll find a wide range of apparel and collectibles, from t-shirts and jackets to mugs and hats. Athletics: Find out who won yesterday or when your favorite team plays next. Campus Map: Looking for a particular building around campus? This will definitely help! Want more? Let us know! We’ll add new features based on your feedback, so be sure to vote up new tools for the app or use the app store comments to share your thoughts.
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 review sentiment: InitialView at 100% against Mammoth Mobile's 50%. InitialView also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Mammoth Mobile's advantage is rating (3.6 vs 3.2) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.
Mammoth Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Mammoth 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.
Mammoth Mobile ships an update every 15 months, InitialView monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mammoth Mobile | InitialView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (17 ratings) — better | 3.2 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 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 | 13 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Amherst College | Terry Crawford |
Customer experience
Mammoth Mobile
InitialView
In-app purchases
Mammoth Mobile
No in-app purchases
InitialView
No in-app purchases
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