Orah Staff App vs Rooted Forward
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orah Staff App
A student management system designed for schools to streamline boarding operations. It allows staff to manage student check-ins, leave requests, and conduct rolls efficiently from any device.
- Student sign in/out
- Leave request management
- Roll calls
- Paperless system
- Cross-device compatibility
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Boardingware is now Orah! This reflects our new commitment to building elegant software experiences for our schools, students and parents - both inside and outside of Residential Life, or boarding. We’re excited to share this moment with you and invite you to experience Orah. Orah is a safe and simple student management system for schools. Forget clipboards, and tedious paper based systems, Orah lets staff manage their boarders effortlessly from their iPad, mobile phone, or computer. With our iOS app you can sign students in and out, accept and decline leave requests, perform rolls and much more.
Rooted Forward
Explore American cities with free, self-guided audio tours that uncover the history of housing segregation. Learn about the tools and policies that shaped urban landscapes through walking tours with informative stops.
- Self-guided audio tours
- Focus on housing segregation history
- Interactive walking tours
- Informative stops and detours
- New city walks added regularly
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Rooted Forward is a student-run nonprofit. We research how American cities decided who could live where, and we publish what we find as free audio tours you walk yourself. Hyde Park in Chicago is the first walk. Thirteen stops and three optional detours, about four miles, from Paul Cornell's stone in Harold Washington Park to Harper Court. Along the way, seven red plates name the tools that built American housing segregation, one at a time. The improvement associations. The realtors' rulebook. Restrictive covenants. Blockbusting. Buying on contract. Redlining. Urban renewal. More cities are being researched now, and new walks arrive in the app as they are finished.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rooted Forward at 100% against Orah Staff App's 17%. Rooted Forward also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1). Orah Staff App's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Rooted Forward holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Orah Staff App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rooted Forward's.
Orah Staff App ships an update every 4 days, Rooted Forward every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orah Staff App | Rooted Forward |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Boardingware | Nausheen Zaidi |
Customer experience
Orah Staff App
Rooted Forward
In-app purchases
Orah Staff App
No in-app purchases
Rooted Forward
No in-app purchases
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