SmartPass Mobile vs My School Bell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartPass Mobile
This app allows educators and school staff to manage digital hall passes in real-time. It enables the creation, approval, and tracking of student passes, with features like Hall Monitor and Kiosk Mode for efficient school management.
- Create and schedule digital hall passes
- Approve or deny pass requests
- Real-time student tracking with photos
- Kiosk Mode for device-limited rooms
- Access staff ID cards
- Manage school account settings
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Educators use SmartPass to easily create, manage, and oversee digital hall passes in real-time. Protect your students and school assets with features like encounter prevention and room capacity limits, all without compromising student privacy and security. Teachers & Admins can: - Streamline hall passes with one-touch creation, approval, denial, or queuing - Prevent unsafe and disruptive incidents through encounter prevention and room restrictions - Deploy custom digital student ID cards, reducing costs, saving time, and improving record-keeping - Access analytics for live, pre-scheduled, and pattern-based insights into student movement to improve safety and security - Customize use to account for each student’s unique needs and accommodations Smarter movement. Better outcomes.
My School Bell
Recreate the familiar structure of a school day with custom bell alarms. Set alerts for school start, breaks, and end times with various bell sounds. Ideal for children missing school routines.
- Set multiple school bell alarms
- Choose from 7 alarm sounds
- Customizable timings and days
- Fun and friendly interface
- Notifications for alarms
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With so many children unable to attend school during 2020, we created the 'My School Bell' app to help children who are missing their school routine and need the comfort and familiarity of the bells, timings, breaks, starts & finishes that they are used to, during a normal school day. My School Bell is a fun app that allows you to set a school bell to ring at chosen times on your device. Set alarms for the start of school, break times, lunch breaks, school finish or any other period during the day/week. You can choose the bell sound from many sounds, either a traditional school bell or a light 'ting-a-ling' school bell. FEATURES - Set as many School Bell alarms as required. - Select from 7 different alarm sounds. - Fun and friendly interface. SETUP - Turn on Notifications, to receive your School Bell alarms. - Ensure the sound is on, and volume turned up. - Create alarms for each school period. - Set the Time, Ringtone and Days for each alarm. We hope you enjoy using the My School Bell App with your children. Developed by UK Vehicle Data ©2020 www.ukvehicledata.co.uk
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartPass Mobile at 2.9 against My School Bell's 1.2. SmartPass Mobile also leads on ratings volume (1.5K vs 22) and review sentiment (27% vs 10%). My School Bell's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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.
SmartPass Mobile holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartPass Mobile has 1.5K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of SmartPass Mobile's written reviews are positive against 10% of My School Bell's.
| Parameter | SmartPass Mobile | My School Bell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (1.5K ratings) — better | 1.2 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews — better | 10.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 247 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmartPass, Inc | Uk Vehicle Data Ltd |
Customer experience
SmartPass Mobile
My School Bell
Bugs and requests
SmartPass Mobile
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes and glitches
- Unreliable pass tracking
- Syncing issues between devices
Requested features
4 requests- More flexible time limits
- Customizable settings for each school
- Better integration with school systems
- Ability to provide feedback/explanations for time limit overruns
My School Bell
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SmartPass Mobile
No in-app purchases
My School Bell
No in-app purchases
Questions
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