Comparison

SignUpGenius vs Oakward

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SignUpGenius

Easily create and manage event sign-ups, volunteer schedules, and group activities from your phone. Coordinate participants, track RSVPs, send automated reminders, and collect payments securely. This tool streamlines event planning for schools, nonprofits, and community groups.

Highlights
  • Create online sign ups
  • Manage RSVPs and schedules
  • Send automated reminders
  • Collect payments and donations
  • Organize school and nonprofit events
  • Access sign ups on mobile
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The SignUpGenius app gives you instant access to the mobile SignUpGenius platform, the easiest way to create sign ups, manage volunteers, coordinate events, and collect payments from your phone. SignUpGenius helps organizers plan school events, volunteer schedules, fundraisers, group activities, and community programs in minutes. If you need a simple way to organize people, track RSVPs, and keep everyone informed, this app connects you directly to your SignUpGenius account wherever you are. Use SignUpGenius to: • Create online sign ups for events and volunteer shifts • Manage RSVPs and participant schedules • Send reminders and updates automatically • Collect payments and donations securely • Organize school, nonprofit, church, and team events • Access your sign ups anytime on mobile Trusted by millions of organizers, SignUpGenius replaces messy email chains and spreadsheets with a simple, reliable sign up system that keeps groups running smoothly. Download SignUpGenius for fast mobile access to your events, volunteers, and sign ups — and make organizing easier everywhere you go.

About

Oakward

This app gamifies household chores for children, turning tasks into quests with experience points and gold rewards. Parents approve completed work, and children can use their earned currency to 'purchase' privileges or contribute to family goals. It aims to reduce arguments over chores and teach valuable skills.

Highlights
  • Chore gamification with XP and gold
  • Quest creation and customization
  • Hero creation and customization
  • Parental approval system
  • Customizable reward shop
  • Family Vault for shared goals
  • Boss battles for collaborative chores
Features
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Chore apps usually fail for the same reason: nothing happens when a kid finishes something. Oakward borrows the loop that keeps kids glued to their games and points it at the laundry basket. The dishes, the bins, the bedroom floor, all of it becomes a quest worth real XP and real gold. Your kids build a hero. You approve the work. Everybody stops arguing about the chore chart. FOUR STEPS, ABOUT TWENTY MINUTES 1. Write the quests. Turn a chore into a quest in the Quest Workshop. Set the XP, the gold, and how often it repeats. Save the good ones to your library and reuse them forever. 2. Make the heroes. Each kid gets a hero with a class, a look, and a photo if they want one. Assign quests to one hero or to the whole roster at once. 3. They do the work. Kids see their own quest list on their own device, mark things done, and send them in. If the job genuinely is not happening, they can request a skip instead of lying about it. 4. You approve, it pays. Completions land in Approval Hall. Approve and the XP, gold, and streak credit hit instantly. Send it back and nothing does. WHAT'S INSIDE Approval Hall: Nothing is paid out until you say so. Approve, deny, or approve with no reward for a half-finished job. Every decision is written to a running ledger you can scroll back through. Your own reward shop: Gold has to buy something, and you decide what. Screen time, a movie night, choosing dinner, a trip to the shop. Set your own prices, add your own photos, and let kids hold what they have bought in a backpack until they want to use it. Streaks and the daily prize wheel: Finish a daily quest bundle and you bank a spin. Spins pile up, so a kid who has a great week gets to sit down on Saturday and burn through five at once. Freeze tokens mean a sick day does not wipe out a month. The Family Vault: A shared pot with a shared goal on it. Kids deposit their own gold toward a family trip or a pizza night and earn family XP for doing it. Withdrawals come to you for approval by default. It quietly teaches saving without a single lecture about saving. Health, potions, and gentle consequences: Heroes have health. Dock a little for the jobs that did not happen, then let a healing potion or a visit to the Hero Infirmary bring them back. Boss battles: The occasional boss the whole house has to gang up on, so siblings have something to do together instead of compete over. BUILT FOR REAL HOUSEHOLDS - Local first. Quests, gold, and approvals live on the device, so the app stays quick and syncs the moment the connection comes back. - One subscription covers the whole family, up to 20 devices. - Parent Command sits behind a Parent PIN, with Face ID or Touch ID unlock if you want it. - Kids get their own device with their own quest list and no access to yours. - Photos stay on the device that added them. They are never uploaded to us. - No ads. No analytics measuring what your family does. Anonymous crash reports only, and you can switch those off. Everything about your children is entered by you, stays in your family's own area of our backend, and is never used for advertising or profiling. PRICING Oakward is free for 7 days, then $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year for the whole household. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Privacy policy: https://oakward.redmontlabs.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://oakward.redmontlabs.com/support.html

Screenshots

SignUpGenius4 screens
Oakward4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Oakward at 100% against SignUpGenius's 2%. Oakward also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.3) and ads (none vs shown). SignUpGenius's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (156 vs 2). On price, monetization model, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Oakward sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. SignUpGenius asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Oakward holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SignUpGenius has 156 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 2% of SignUpGenius's written reviews are positive against 100% of Oakward's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SignUpGenius versus Oakward: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSignUpGeniusOakward
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (156 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews2.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings156 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB277 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSignUpGenius, Inc.William Montgomery

Customer experience

SignUpGenius

All ratings155 ratings
Positive4.5%
Neutral0.6%
Negative94.8%
Written reviews169 reviews
Positive2.4%
Neutral4.1%
Negative93.5%

Oakward

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SignUpGenius

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • App crashes on startup or during use
  • Login fails with correct credentials
  • Blank/white screens after navigation
  • Password entry causes app shutdown
  • App locks out users after failed login attempts
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  • Ads accumulate and cover entire screen over time
  • Full-screen ads interrupt workflow constantly
  • Ads reset view position, requiring re-scrolling
  • App freezes when typing in text fields
  • Navigation back button loops or resets to beginning
  • Session not saved between app closes
  • Signups disappear or don't save
  • Time zone display incorrect
  • Facebook login not supported in app
  • Mobile browser version glitches and fails
  • App doesn't show all user signups
  • Clicking signup takes to wrong location
  • Ad code broken, creating multiple ad rows
  • Rogue ad links install tracking data
  • Page turns white with blocking message

Requested features

16 requests
  • Create and manage signups directly in app
  • Push notifications for signup changes and events
  • Favorites or bookmarks for frequently used signups
  • Calendar view with date filtering
  • Admin tools to edit volunteer assignments
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  • Share signup links directly from app
  • Persistent login/session management
  • Mobile-optimized interface separate from desktop
  • Search functionality for finding signups
  • View all signups on single page without pagination
  • Collapse past dates to reduce scrolling
  • Direct calendar app integration
  • Ad-free premium version option
  • Contact information access for signed-up users
  • Report generation features
  • Dark mode option

Oakward

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SignUpGenius

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Oakward

Subscriptions2
  • Oakward Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Oakward Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is SignUpGenius free?
SignUpGenius is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oakward free?
Oakward is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SignUpGenius or Oakward?
Oakward is rated higher. SignUpGenius averages 1.3 out of 5 from 156 ratings, while Oakward averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SignUpGenius or Oakward have ads?
SignUpGenius shows ads; Oakward does not.

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