DeansList for Educators vs Schoolrunner 2.0
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeansList for Educators
This mobile app allows educators to easily log non-academic student information, such as behavior, attendance, and homework. It serves as a companion to a web-based platform, requiring a school account for access.
- Record student behavior
- Track attendance
- Log homework completion
- Manage office referrals
- Centralized student data
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DeansList makes it easy to record non-academic student data including behavior, attendance, homework completion, office referrals and more, all in a single platform. This is the companion mobile application to the DeansList platform. Use of this app requires a DeansList account for your school. For more information, please visit our website.
Schoolrunner 2.0
This app streamlines school administration for staff, students, and guardians. It offers quick logging of student behaviors, attendance tracking, and communication tools like call/email logging and in-app messaging. Users can also access student profiles and search for school-related information.
- Log student behaviors
- Track class attendance
- Log calls and emails
- Send in-app messages to guardians
- View and update student profiles
- Search for students and groups
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** Please note: you must be a staff member, student, or guardian at a Schoolrunner partner school to access the Schoolrunner mobile app. ** The Schoolrunner mobile app is a convenient companion to our full-featured web app. Our mobile app has these features to make teachers' days easier: Behaviors – Quickly give 1 or more behaviors to 1 or more students. See your most relevant groups right away or easily search for anyone. Save favorites and see your most recently given behaviors for even quicker tracking. View and edit behaviors you've given from the app today. Choose whether to play sounds when giving behaviors. Class Attendance – See your class sections or search for any other section. Log attendance with a few taps and see your class attendance percentage update in real time. Communication – Automatically log calls and emails placed from the Schoolrunner mobile app with details such as topic, mood, and comments. Manually log communications without having to make a call. View all communications for a student whether logged by you or someone else. In-App Messaging: send messages to guardians of students in a group/homeroom/section, or to all guardians of a particular student. Choose to accept replies from guardians or restrict to no-reply announcements. Change your language to automatically translate incoming messages into your home language. Student Profile - A work in progress. View and update student photos with your device's camera or photo library to add faces to names. View pertinent information like homeroom, birthday, and alerts. Search - Quickly find any student group, section, or student at your school. Star the most important groups for quick access and manage your notification preferences for them. Go directly to the Attendance, Behaviors, Communications, and Student pages from search results.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DeansList for Educators at 2.3 against Schoolrunner 2.0's 2.0. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
DeansList for Educators holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 110 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 8% of DeansList for Educators's written reviews are positive against 12% of Schoolrunner 2.0's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
DeansList for Educators ships an update every 4 weeks, Schoolrunner 2.0 every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and August 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeansList for Educators | Schoolrunner 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (38 ratings) — better | 2.0 (110 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews | 12.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 38 | 110 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DeansList, Inc. | SchoolMint |
Customer experience
DeansList for Educators
Schoolrunner 2.0
In-app purchases
DeansList for Educators
No in-app purchases
Schoolrunner 2.0
No in-app purchases
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