SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator vs ADMINS | TalkingPoints
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator
This app provides school personnel with quick access to student attendance, photos, schedules, and scan history. It allows for taking student photos and scanning ID cards or cell phones for attendance tracking in various locations.
- Access student attendance
- View student photos
- Check student schedules
- Scan student ID cards
- Track location attendance
- Migrate photos to SIS
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Swipe Administrator App The Swipe administrator app allows school personnel to quickly access student attendance, photos, schedules, and scan history. Users can also take photos of students and have these migrate to the student information system. The app can be used throughout the day to scan student ID cards and cell phones for location attendance ( field trips, offices, off campus lunch, Dr Appts, etc…
ADMINS | TalkingPoints
This app enables school administrators to communicate with families via two-way messaging, announcements, and file sharing. It supports over 150 languages with automatic translation and can reach individuals, groups, or the entire school community.
- Two-way messaging with families
- Automatic translation in 150+ languages
- Send messages to individuals, groups, or the whole school
- Attach pictures, videos, and files
- Messages delivered via text or app
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The TalkingPoints for Admins app helps admins stay connected to their school community while on the go. Through this app, you can send messages and announcements from your school inbox or personal inbox and receive replies from families. TalkingPoints will continue adding to and improving the mobile app to maximize effective engagement for our on-the-go administrators. With the TalkingPoints for Admins app, you can: • communicate with families through 2-way messaging, with automatic translation in 150+ languages • quickly send messages to one parent, a group of family contacts, a class, or the entire school • engage with families in an equitable way by sending messages that arrive via text message or the TalkingPoints for Families app • attach pictures, videos and files to your messages TalkingPoints for Admins is for school administrators whose school or district partners with TalkingPoints.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator at 100% against ADMINS | TalkingPoints's 0%. ADMINS | TalkingPoints's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
ADMINS | TalkingPoints holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator's written reviews are positive against 0% of ADMINS | TalkingPoints's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator ships an update every 2 months, ADMINS | TalkingPoints every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator | ADMINS | TalkingPoints |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WebIDcard, Inc. | TalkingPoints Corp |
Customer experience
SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator
ADMINS | TalkingPoints
In-app purchases
SwipeK12 Mobile Administrator
No in-app purchases
ADMINS | TalkingPoints
No in-app purchases
Questions
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