SmartPass Mobile vs HES Check
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.
HES Check
This app provides a daily health checklist for students, parents, and faculty to complete before entering the classroom. Results are sent to the district for symptom monitoring. Sign-up is easy with a district-provided email and access code.
- Daily health checklist
- Symptom monitoring for students and staff
- District-level results reporting
- Email-based sign-up with access code
- Immediate survey display
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Help your students, parents, and faculty be at ease at the start of this school year by using this app as a daily health checklist that can be completed before entering into the classroom. Results are immediately returned to the district for a chance to monitor any symptoms of students or staff members. Sign up is simple: use your email address that the district has on file to receive an access code. All surveys and checklists that are tied to your email address will appear instantly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HES Check at 5.0 against SmartPass Mobile's 2.9. HES Check also leads on iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). SmartPass Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (1.5K vs 1). 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.
HES Check holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartPass Mobile has 1.5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | SmartPass Mobile | HES Check |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (1.5K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 1 |
| 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 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SmartPass, Inc | Harris, N. Computer Corporation |
Customer experience
SmartPass Mobile
HES Check
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
HES Check
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SmartPass Mobile
No in-app purchases
HES Check
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SmartPass Mobile free?
Is HES Check free?
Which has better reviews, SmartPass Mobile or HES Check?
Do SmartPass Mobile or HES Check have ads?
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