DeansList for Educators vs Raptor Alert
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.
Raptor Alert
This app enhances school safety by providing a silent panic alert system, streamlining emergency response, and facilitating student reunification. It integrates with existing security systems and student information systems for real-time accountability and drill management.
- Silent panic alert system
- Expedited emergency response
- Bi-directional security system integration
- Mandated drill compliance and tracking
- Real-time student and staff accountability
- Patented student reunification workflow
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The Raptor® Alert mobile app is used with Raptor Technologies® newest emergency management solutions – Raptor Alert™, Raptor Reunification®, Raptor Accountability™ and Raptor Drill Manager®. Those who purchased Raptor Alert individually or with other Raptor Emergency Management solutions – should download this new Raptor Alert mobile app. Speak with your system administrator or Raptor support if you have questions. Raptor Emergency Management solutions include: RAPTOR ALERT™: Designed to work under duress, Raptor Alert is a silent panic alert system that works on the devices your schools use every day. Raptor Alert expedites and streamlines emergency response by allowing users to initiate an emergency alert directly through 911 and provide critical information to first responders, law enforcement and campus personnel. RAPTOR CONNECT™: Raptor Connect enables native, bi-directional integration with a school’s existing digital security systems and peripherals. It streamlines a school’s digital emergency response activations, speeding notifications and minimizing the impact of the situation. RAPTOR DRILL MANAGER®: Raptor Drill Manager gives you the power to prepare your schools for any situation. Simplify federal and state-mandated drill compliance and management by scheduling, initiating, logging and tracking drills from any smart device. District-level and school-level reports show drill status and crucial insights to help schools improve with each drill. RAPTOR ACCOUNTABILITY™: Connected with your student information system, Raptor enables teachers and staff to account for themselves, students and visitors directly in the mobile app while providing real-time status and location information. RAPTOR REUNIFICATION®: Recovery starts when the crisis begins. Minimizing trauma is directly correlated to safe, efficient reunification. Raptor Reunification software includes a patented reunification workflow and is aligned with and officially licensed by The “I Love U Guys” Foundation®. With Raptor, your reunification team can quickly confirm the location and status of each student and staff member in the mobile app. Connected to your student information system, Raptor helps ensure students are reunified only with approved guardians. Raptor Reunification includes Student Reunification®, Parent Reunification®, Guardian Reunification® and Family Reunification®. Transforming School Safety Through Software. Founded in 2002, Raptor Technologies has partnered with over 60,000 schools globally, including over 7,300 K-12 US school districts. Our team of safety software experts and our suite of industry-leading solutions provide schools with confidence in their safety and student wellbeing programs so they can focus on teaching. Driven by our shared mission to protect every child, every school, every day™, Raptor helps customers mitigate risks—from prevention and preparedness to reunifying families.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: DeansList for Educators at free against Raptor Alert's paid. Raptor Alert's advantage is rating (2.6 vs 2.3) and chart position (#179 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Raptor Alert holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 181 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of DeansList for Educators's written reviews are positive against 17% of Raptor Alert's.
DeansList for Educators ships an update every 4 weeks, Raptor Alert every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeansList for Educators | Raptor Alert |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (39 ratings) | 2.6 (181 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews | 17.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 181 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #179 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 209 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DeansList, Inc. | Raptor Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
DeansList for Educators
Raptor Alert
Bugs and requests
DeansList for Educators
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Raptor Alert
Reported bugs
31 issues- Roster system is poorly designed
- UI is bulky
- Return on questions by Raptor is bad
- Extremely inconsistent
- Doesn't work for half of the faculty and staff
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- Not reliable or credible
- Cannot disable 2 factor
- Has not once sounded the alarm on phone during drills
- Won't let me sign up
- Alarm sound is too intense
- Has never worked
- Top bar for toggling schools and settings button not working
- Cannot get campuses which don't apply removed
- App is cumbersome to use
- Hard to find rosters
- Cannot remove personal phone number
- Doesn't always alert or work
- Cannot stop getting alerts even after removing app
- Don't get alerts, only text and email
- Phone going off constantly with drills/incidents
- Cannot keep 'foghorn' from going off without removing app
- App is not intuitive or quick
- Takes at least 10 button clicks to get to roster
- Won't let me log in
- Most people tied to another school and support can't remove
- Regularly get loud and disruptive alerts for wrong building
- Will not let me login
- Try to log in and get redirected back to same log in screen
- Cannot successfully make it through the log in process
- Couldn't even log in at all
- Test alerts going off constantly since signing up
Requested features
6 requests- District should pay for personal phone use for 2FA
- Better way to notify than personal phones
- Require phone use on school devices like iPads
- Remove ability to disable notification sound
- Improve UI/UX for speed and intuitiveness
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- Provide training on app usage
In-app purchases
DeansList for Educators
No in-app purchases
Raptor Alert
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is DeansList for Educators free?
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