Comparison

Active Defender vs FACTS Staff App

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

Head to head
About

Active Defender

This app provides real-time emergency maps to reduce chaos and confusion during critical incidents. It offers instant visual guidance for students, staff, and first responders, ensuring everyone knows what to do and where to go. It facilitates communication and provides crucial information for swift and effective emergency response.

Highlights
  • Real-time emergency map
  • Instant multistory mapping
  • Emergency alerts
  • Real-time chat communication
  • Crisis location and nature
  • Campus-wide information sharing
Features
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Imagine there is an emergency at a school or a business. During emergencies, there can be a lot of chaos and confusion. Active Defender provides a real-time emergency map that removes the confusion. Everyone can know where to go and what to do regardless of the emergency. IMPORTANT! To use this app in your school or business, make sure they have a cooperate Active Defender account. You will get a login from your school or school district to fully login, connect, and participate with this app. Active Defender can INSTANTLY provide a multistory emergency map: To First Responders To Students To Staff To Vistors Everyone can know what to do and where to go! Active Defender’s purpose is to provide clarity and remove chaos while making sure everyone knows what the problem is and where the problem is relative to where they are located. WHY? Because you only make good decisions based on what you know and where you are. Focus on “safety and security is everyone’s responsibility.” Whether there is a fight, fire, active shooter, medical emergency, or extreme weather event, Active-Defender gives real-time, life-saving information to everyone that needs to know. Active-Defender allows you to: - Warn other staff members, school resource officers, and first responders with the touch of a button that an emergency is taking place. - Receive map alerts as to the exact nature and location of the crisis. - Use the chat window to engage in real-time communication with responders. - Provide details to others on your campus while simultaneously giving first responders the information they need to respond with speed and precision. Active-Defender: Saves Time - Provides Clarity - Saves Lives!

About

FACTS Staff App

Streamline classroom attendance for educators. Quickly mark students present or absent, adjust for tardiness, and add notes for the office. Review and correct past records securely with single sign-on and automatic locking.

Highlights
  • Daily schedule overview
  • One-tap attendance marking
  • Customizable attendance codes
  • Add notes to records
  • Review and correct past attendance
  • Secure single sign-on
  • Automatic inactivity lock
Features
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FACTS Staff puts classroom attendance in the palm of your hand. Designed for teachers and school staff, this app lets you take attendance quickly and accurately right from your mobile device. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • See your full teaching schedule for the day, with each period marked as finished, in session, or still ahead • Jump straight into the class you're teaching right now from a single tap on the home screen • Check enrollment counts, room, and period details before you walk in TAKE ATTENDANCE IN SECONDS • Mark every student present with one tap, then adjust only the exceptions • Tap a student to choose from your school's own attendance codes — present, tardy, absent, excused, and any others your district defines • Tap a code again to clear it if you make a mistake • Select multiple students and apply the same code to all of them at once • Every change saves automatically as you go — no submit button, and nothing to lose if you get interrupted NOTES THAT REACH THE OFFICE • Add a note to any attendance record to explain a tardy or an absence • Review all of a class's notes together in one list REVIEW AND CORRECT PAST DAYS • Look back at attendance you've already taken • Amend earlier records within the window your district allows • Records already set by the front office are shown clearly and left untouched SECURE BY DESIGN • Sign in with your existing school account through your district's single sign-on • Optional Face ID or Touch ID to unlock the app • Automatically locks itself after a period of inactivity, so a roster is never left open on an unattended device BUILT FOR HOW YOU WORK • Full support for iPhone and iPad, including split-screen multitasking • Light and dark appearance • Works with Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and other iOS accessibility features • Clear indicators when you're offline or when data may be out of date, so you always know what you're looking at

Screenshots

Active Defender4 screens
FACTS Staff App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Active Defender at 100% against FACTS Staff App's 33%. Active Defender also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (54 vs 4). FACTS Staff App's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Active Defender holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Active Defender has 54 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Active Defender's written reviews are positive against 33% of FACTS Staff App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Active Defender ships an update every 2 months, FACTS Staff App fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Active Defender versus FACTS Staff App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActive DefenderFACTS Staff App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (54 ratings) — better3.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings54 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size215 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMMOJFacts Management Company

Customer experience

Active Defender

All ratings54 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FACTS Staff App

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

Active Defender

No in-app purchases

None

FACTS Staff App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Active Defender free?
Active Defender is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FACTS Staff App free?
FACTS Staff App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Active Defender or FACTS Staff App?
Active Defender is rated higher. Active Defender averages 4.9 out of 5 from 54 ratings, while FACTS Staff App averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Active Defender or FACTS Staff App have ads?
Neither Active Defender nor FACTS Staff App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Active Defender or FACTS Staff App?
Active Defender ships an update every 2 months, and FACTS Staff App fortnightly. Most recently, Active Defender was updated on October 24, 2026 and FACTS Staff App on October 29, 2026.

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