WS+Absences vs Incidents+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WS+Absences
Easily report student absences directly from your mobile device. This application streamlines the process of notifying the school about a student's absence, ensuring timely communication.
- Report absences from mobile
- Streamlined absence reporting
- Direct communication with school
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Report absences from your mobile device.
Incidents+
Streamline school discipline by digitally reporting and managing student incidents, tardies, and merits. Schedule consequences and gain insights into behavioral trends to improve campus climate and student support.
- Report office referrals, incidents, tardies, and merits
- Schedule and track consequences
- Analyze student behavior trends
- Communicate with parents and professionals
- Modernize referral process
- Real-time campus behavior analysis
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Report office referrals, minor incidents, tardies, and merits; schedule and follow through with consequences; and troubleshoot student conduct. --- Incidents+ replaces your referral process with a modern, efficient workflow that gives you time back to reinvest in school climate and delivers the real-time analysis required to get ahead of behavioral trends and patterns on your campus. - Quickly report office referrals, minor incidents, tardies, and merits without triplicate forms or double-entry. - Schedule actions in seconds and effortlessly keep your staff informed about who is assigned where. - Identify students in need of services, pinpoint where and when challenging behavior is most likely to occur, and measure response to targeted interventions. - Communicate more effectively with parents and professionals. To use this app, you must have access to your school or district’s Educator's Handbook Incidents+ account.
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Verdict
WS+Absences and Incidents+ both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Incidents+'s written reviews are positive against 55% of WS+Absences's. Incidents+ also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). WS+Absences's advantage is ratings volume (4K vs 403) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for WS+Absences against 4.9 for Incidents+. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WS+Absences has 4K ratings behind it against 403, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 55% of WS+Absences's written reviews are positive against 80% of Incidents+'s.
WS+Absences ships an update every 4 months, Incidents+ monthly. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | WS+Absences | Incidents+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4K ratings) | 4.9 (403 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4K — better | 403 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | West Educational Leasing, Inc | EducatorsHandbook.com |
Customer experience
WS+Absences
Incidents+
Bugs and requests
WS+Absences
Reported bugs
2 issues- No reasons show up in drop box for absence
- Once sub accepts a job, other options for the week disappear
Requested features
3 requests- Allow writing in real reason for absence
- Ability to choose favorite subs
- Visibility of back office for admins
Incidents+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
WS+Absences
No in-app purchases
Incidents+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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