DeansList for Educators vs Schoolmint Hero
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.
Schoolmint Hero
Streamline student behavior tracking and disciplinary actions with this mobile tool. It offers efficient workflows for managing student information, including enhanced barcode scanning and smart search capabilities. Designed for seamless integration into the school environment, it aims to improve productivity and compliance.
- Track single or multiple behaviors
- Apply disciplinary actions
- Student information review
- Mobile barcode scanning
- Enhanced security with biometrics
- Smart student search
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The new Hero app is designed to make tracking behaviors, complying disciplinary actions, and reviewing student information an efficient experience on any mobile device. With drastic improvements to mobile barcode reading, redesigned workflows to make tracking multiple students easier, smarter ways to search for students, and new compliance modes, these new apps are designed to fit in seamlessly with how you work at school. We're also excited about what these apps represent: a new mobile platform for Hero that we can aggressively expand upon. The world is mobile first, and we believe your school productivity apps should be the same. In the future, we will be adding classroom interfaces, integrating the student and guardian portals, and adding all kinds of amazing functionality to these apps. Features Include: - Track single or multiple behaviors at once, by searching or scanning IDs - Choose disciplinary actions and dates, or apply a default policy - Comply student disciplinary actions by student, by scanning IDs, or by disciplinary action - See contact information, behavior history, behavior overview, and schedule in student profile - Enhanced security through supported biometrics (FaceID, TouchID) Existing App Users, Notice These Key Differences: - Event tracking is not supported in the new apps at this time. - The general behavior tracking workflow has been revised. - You are now able to select multiple behaviors, and then initiate a scan or search to select a student. - Once you have selected a student, you can confirm all of the behaviors and consequences to apply. - A student's behavior history only shows the 200 most recent entries. - Compliance now has three modes: Search, scan, and list.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: DeansList for Educators at 38 against Schoolmint Hero's 7. On price, rating, 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.
DeansList for Educators holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DeansList for Educators has 38 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
DeansList for Educators ships an update every 4 weeks, Schoolmint Hero monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and August 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeansList for Educators | Schoolmint Hero |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (38 ratings) — better | 2.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 38 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DeansList, Inc. | SchoolMint |
Customer experience
DeansList for Educators
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In-app purchases
DeansList for Educators
No in-app purchases
Schoolmint Hero
No in-app purchases
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