5 vs Capistrano USD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5
This app allows educators to manage student data, including school activities, behaviors, and event check-ins. It supports barcode scanning for efficient event and intervention tracking on iOS devices.
- Manage student data
- Track school activities and events
- Record behaviors and interventions
- Check-in individuals at events
- Bluetooth barcode scanner support
- Device camera for check-ins
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Manage 5-Star Students data on your iPhone or iPad device! View school activities, events, behaviors, interventions, students, faculty, community members, and guests. Add hall passes, update activity participants, add behavior occurrences and check-in individuals at events or interventions using a Bluetooth barcode scanner or your device camera.
Capistrano USD
Access essential district and school information, including announcements, contact details, staff directories, and event calendars. Filter content to focus on your child's specific school for personalized updates and resources like bus routes and lunch menus.
- District and school information
- Personalized school filtering
- Announcements
- Contact details and staff directory
- Event calendar
- School resource links
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The app includes information for the district and all schools. Filter by the school your child attends to feature information for that school. Key information includes: • Announcements • Contact Details • Staff Directory • Event Calendar Additional resources may be provided by the district or school, such as: • bus routes • board agendas • lunch menus • Aeries & MySchoolBucks login links • sports information • and more
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 5 at every 3 weeks against Capistrano USD's every 5 months. Capistrano USD's advantage is rating (2.2 vs 1.9). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Capistrano USD holds the better App Store score, 2.2 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 9 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 8% of 5's written reviews are positive against 0% of Capistrano USD's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
5 ships an update every 3 weeks, Capistrano USD every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | 5 | Capistrano USD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (25 ratings) | 2.2 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | Catapult K12 |
Customer experience
5
Capistrano USD
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
Capistrano USD
No in-app purchases
