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Comparing Guidebook with other platforms

You're choosing the app your admitted and new students will live in. See how Guidebook compares, one platform at a time.

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Guidebook vs. Pathify: An App Built Around Your Campus Events

Looking for a Pathify alternative for orientation or campus visits? Guidebook gives students, families and visitors a branded app, no campus credentials needed.
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Guidebook vs. Modern Campus: How We Compare

Looking for a Modern Campus alternative for student events? See what Guidebook does, what Modern Campus does better, and how pricing differs.

Guidebook vs. Accelevents: How We Compare

Comparing Accelevents alternatives? Guidebook prices per device with the first five free, a small event plan under 200 attendees, and true offline access.

Guidebook vs. WebEx Events (formerly Socio): How We Compare

Looking for a WebEx Events alternative? Guidebook is live in about two weeks, with no enterprise tier, no implementation fee and published pricing.

Guidebook vs. Whova: How We Compare

Comparing Whova alternatives? Guidebook publishes your app under your own name, works offline, and quotes one fixed fee with no a la carte add-ons.

Guidebook vs. Sched: How We Compare

Looking for a Sched alternative? Guidebook covers registration, maps, check-in and engagement too, with your own app in the stores and one fixed fee.

Guidebook vs. EventMobi: How We Compare

Comparing EventMobi alternatives? Guidebook charges no per-attendee fees and no integration fees, with free open API access and 90%+ app adoption.

Guidebook vs. Cvent: How We Compare

Looking for a Cvent alternative? Guidebook gives campus teams one fixed fee instead of per-attendee pricing, offline access, and support in the US and UK.

We solve the problems your team has learned to work around

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Common challenge
Guidebook advantage

Everything is scattered across email, spreadsheets, different platforms, and paper handouts.

One app, one source of truth. One place students actually check.

Last-minute changes mean reprinting thousands of materials.

Update anytime. Push instantly. Everyone sees it.

Students ignore email. We can't reach them.

Meet them on the device they actually check. Now your message is seen.

Our team is drowning answering the same questions over and over.

Students find it themselves. Staff can focus on the experience.

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The results campus teams actually see

Indiana Tech more than doubled their student yield, cut costs by nearly a third, and reduced staff admin time by 90%. The numbers tell a story your director will want to hear.

Guidebook has become the heartbeat of our campus communication

VP of Enrollment, Indiana Tech

105%

Yield increase

at Indiana Tech

29%

Cost reduction

saved annually

98%

Student adoption

in week one

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FAQs

Start with three things: whether one app carries students from Open House through orientation, who on your team runs it day to day, and how it works on a phone. Each comparison on this page walks through those for one platform.

Pick a platform to compare

Yes. One branded app holds as many guides as you need, so orientation, move-in, welcome week and everything after all live under your institution's name. Students download once and find every experience inside.

Compare how other platforms handle this

Yes. If you can send an email or put together a few slides, you can build a guide. It's drag and drop, with no developers and no code. Teams of one or two regularly run orientation for thousands of students.

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Schedules, maps and lists keep working without a signal, as long as students have opened the app beforehand. Features like photos and messaging come back once they reconnect.

Compare platforms side by side

They can open the same content in a phone or desktop browser with Guidebook Web, so no one misses out.

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Yes. Guidebook protects student and family information with the privacy and security controls higher ed institutions expect. You can read more at guidebook.com/security.

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