ATSchool vs Pace TripCheck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ATSchool
This app allows American Taxi clients to manage their taxi orders directly from their mobile devices. Users can check, cancel, or modify pickup details and times, and track their taxi's ETA and location. It also provides a direct messaging or calling option to contact dispatch.
- Check and cancel orders
- Modify pickup location/time
- Contact dispatch via message/call
- Taxi ETA and tracking
- Mobile order management
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ATSchool by American Taxi Dispatch, Inc. 847-253-4411 708-424-7878 630-920-9480 800-244-1177 American Taxi client Schools can check their orders from mobile device anywhere, any time. • Check and cancel your order any time • Change pickup location or time of your order any time by sending a message • Option to contact dispatch by sending a message or phone call • Taxi ETA and tracking to show you the taxi location for you ease American Taxi Dispatch, Inc. is the largest suburban Chicago, IL taxi dispatch service.
Pace TripCheck
Manage your paratransit rides with this app. View trip details, cancel reservations, and customize your notification preferences for ride alerts. It offers similar features to the web version for convenient access.
- View trip information
- Cancel reservations
- Opt-in/out of alerts
- Manage profile information
- Request subscription trip changes
- Receive imminent arrival notifications
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The TripCheck app from Pace Paratransit helps passengers keep track of their paratransit rides by allowing you to view trip information, cancel trips, and opt in and out of email, text and phone call alerts. This app offers similar functionality to the web version of TripCheck at www.PaceBus.com/TripCheck. Chicago and Suburban ADA Paratransit riders, as well as users of Pace-operated Dial-a-Ride services, can use TripCheck. To get started, all you need is your TripCheck ID and password. Customers can view trip information in the app at any time by logging in and clicking “Trips”. Customers can also cancel a reservation using the app. The Trips section contains a calendar in which all your scheduled trips appear. By clicking on any given trip, you’ll be able to see the scheduled pickup time, the pickup address, and the dropoff address. Riders with a subscription trip can also see the details of and request to change that subscription. The TripCheck app allows you to manage some of your contact information as well as opt in and out of email and text message alerts. This can be done on the My Profile page. Those automatic email and text message alerts include: • Trip booking (sent whenever you book a trip) • Trip cancellation (sent whenever you cancel a trip) • Imminent arrival (sent 20 minutes prior to scheduled pickup time) • Next-day itinerary (sent nightly with scheduled trips for the next day) To set your preferences on receiving alerts from the Trip Check system, click "My Profile" on the left navigation bar. Here, you can update some personal information and set alert preferences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ATSchool at 3.0 against Pace TripCheck's 1.9. ATSchool also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 9 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). Pace TripCheck's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1) and review sentiment (15% vs 0%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
ATSchool holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pace TripCheck has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of ATSchool's written reviews are positive against 15% of Pace TripCheck's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ATSchool ships an update every 2 weeks, Pace TripCheck every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ATSchool | Pace TripCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.9 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 15.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SALLY BECK | Pace Suburban Bus Service |
Customer experience
ATSchool
Pace TripCheck
In-app purchases
ATSchool
No in-app purchases
Pace TripCheck
No in-app purchases
