Create an App to Engage, Empower, and Connect Your Campus Community

  • Enhance engagement across campus with push notifications and networking
  • Allow students to build personalized schedules, and answer their own questions
  • Easily drag & drop to build your app in four simple steps
  • Tailor your app colors, icons, and more to match university branding
  • Year-round access to campus resources and student leader training
  • Build a connected marketing website or manage registration
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Manage last-minute changes with an event app

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Transform Alumni Events and Fundraising with a Connected App

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“It allows us to meet them where they are - digitally. We can engage with them on mobile devices while walking on campus. We want high engagement.”

Taylor Shelberg
Associate Director of Visits and Events for Admissions, California Baptist University

“We use Guidebook for the conference so students will be familiar & have the guide already, so they can get resources and notifications on their phone in that one same place for year-round engagement.”

Erin Riordin
 Assistant Director of Residential Life: Residential Education, Notre Dame

“We went from 200 hours and five staff members to just 25 hours and one person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant
 University of Edinburgh

When you build an app with Guidebook,
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Help students navigate campus events with ease

Students can create personalized schedules for different events on campus, from club fairs to guest lectures, with easy-to-update schedule tracks.

Keep students informed and engaged with real-time updates

Push notifications allow you to send timely reminders about events, campus news, or last-minute changes, so students are always in the loop.

Provide a central hub for campus resources

Share essential information, like how to join clubs, access tutoring, or find important campus services, in one convenient student engagement app, reducing the need for students to search multiple websites.

Connect students with their peers

Encourage student engagement by offering opportunities to network and collaborate through the app (if you wish), fostering a more connected campus community.

Simplify student leader training

Organize training materials, schedules, and resources in Document Libraries for easy access by your student leaders, streamlining the entire training process.

Reduce printing costs and achieve sustainability goals

Lower your carbon footprint and help your university achieve LEED certification when you replace printed programs with a simple-to-build campus event app.

Support Student Retention

Position campus programs and resources critical for student retention. Promote events that support student networking, involvement, and access to resources to aid their college experience.

First-year Resources

Develop a holistic campus resource guide for first-year students. Compile orientation, welcome week, transfer events, and valuable resources for the first-year transition.

All Features Included - No Hidden Fees

Schedule Tracks

Create schedule tracks that can be synced to the campus calendar to help students navigate different events.

Push Notifications

Announce new programs, events, schedule changes and more in an instant.

Hub for key resources

Put important information into students' pockets. Provide access to student leader training materials, campus safety information, student club information, FAQs, and more.

In-app social feed

Build community, share news and foster peer-to-peer interactions with our student engagement tools.

Powerful metrics panel

Understand the success of your campus event app and digital resources - see which content resonated, what your audience wants from your app, and continuously iterate.

Free event management tools

Want to promote your event with an integrated website? Or manage registration? Guidebook’s campus event management platform can do it all.

From Student to Alumni

Hitting the road to meet students from your feeder schools? Mobile apps can send push messages to high school counselors and faculty on your route.

Parking and Transportation

Use Guidebook to easily create your own visibility-raising mobile app complete with your institution’s logo and branding palette.

Ceremony Schedules

Bringing prospective students and other members of the community together on campus? Use a mobile app to provide campus maps, directories of campus contacts and more.

Important Updates & Reminders

On the road and in the air. Admissions counselors need instant access to information and the ability to connect with their peers. Guidebook allows them to stay connected wherever they are.

Custom Lists

People prefer apps to surfing websites from their mobile devices. So don’t force parents to search your institution’s website for financial aid information. Instead create a mobile guide with essential information right on their phones.

Top colleges around the world use Guidebook

Campus Life

CSU’s Buc Nation app makes it easy for students to stay engaged with campus life. From athletic events to concerts and plays, students have access to a full schedule of activities. The app also connects students with mentors, provides access to key campus resources, and encourages interaction among classmates, fostering a vibrant campus community. 

Year-round Student Engagement

With Guidebook, Fairfield University connects students to essential resources that support their success on campus. The “Fairfield Thrive Guide” offers quick access to campus platforms, including recreation and residence life information, while also providing important public safety updates. Students can easily navigate university services, helping them thrive throughout their time at Fairfield.

“We lead around 14 orientations each year. With Guidebook, we can copy app content from a previous orientation and use it as the foundation for the next one to save time.”

Taylor Blair
University of Kentucky

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden
Assistant Dean for Law Student Affairs

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant
Enhancer of the student & alumni experience at the University of Edinburgh

Frequently asked questions

Can I build this on my own? I’m not very technical…

Yes, you can. If you’re comfortable sending an email or putting together a few basic PowerPoint slides, you can build an event on our platform. Most of our customers would not describe themselves as tech-savvy.

Can I make changes to the campus event app after I publish it?

Absolutely. If at any point you need to make a change, just jump right back into our system, make those edits, and hit Publish. Within seconds, your updates will be live. And, if you need to send any last-minute notifications to your users, you can do that straight from your phone or tablet with our Mobile Admin capabilities.

How do students download the app?

Upon publishing your app, you’ll have a custom landing page to share with your audience - as well as a unique QR code. Our app Builder also gives you tools like email promotion, posters, and social media templates (and more) to make promoting and downloading your event app super simple.

Can we really generate revenue by selling ad placements?

Many of our higher ed customers have highly engaged app audiences. This is great for local businesses, the campus bookstore, and other departments to get their message in front of more eyes. Sell options like banner ads, sponsored in-app social feed posts, push notifications, and more. Speak to us today to learn more about what you can sell and how.

Do you offer human support?

Of course. Guidebook’s award-winning customer success team has reps in the US and the UK. We pride ourselves on fast response times and on becoming a trusted advisor to you and your team.

What happens if students don’t want to download the app?

Not everyone can download an app, we get it. Those individuals can access your app content through their phone’s browser or desktop computer on Guidebook Web, at no extra cost, so everyone can feel connected to the experience. 

Do you offer any integrations?

Yes! We know how hectic using multiple event planning tools can be, so we integrated our app Builder with the tools our customers use most. We connect with software like Eventbrite, Marketo, Cvent, and Splash. Plus, our Zapier integration allows connections to 10,000+ systems. Want to do more? Contact us to learn more about how our Open API works.

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Our commitment to mobile apps

Our mission is to make it simple to create and manage mobile apps. Over a hundred thousand organisations have used Guidebook to power their mobile experiences. While we’ve had a lot of success powering conference apps, corporate meeting apps, and university campus apps, our platform has been used for thousands of different use cases. Forward-thinking professionals are using Guidebook’s simple app builder to make interactive mobile guides for their student orientations, college campus tours, venues, corporate campuses, parks, and airports. Start going green with iPhone and Android apps built by the best event app company in the industry.