Monarch Bell Schedule vs DBHS Bells
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Monarch Bell Schedule
Track your class schedule with this utility app. Customize period names and lunch periods to match your school day. It highlights the current class and can handle special schedules like assemblies.
- Customizable period names
- Lunch period selection
- Highlights current class
- Handles assembly schedules
- Supports schedule anomalies
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Monarch Bell Schedule is a simple app for keeping track of when your classes start and end at Monarch High School. You can customize it by naming each of your 7 periods, and changing which lunch you have. The app will highlight the current class based on your phone's clock. The app is capable of handling assembly schedules other schedule anomalies.
DBHS Bells
This app provides students with the daily bell schedule and timely notifications for upcoming classes. It also offers a teacher mode with customizable alerts before class dismissal.
- Daily bell schedule
- Local notifications for class start
- Teacher mode with dismissal alerts
- Customizable warning minutes
- Diamond Bar High School specific
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DBHS Bells is an app for Diamond Bar High School students in Diamond Bar, California. Students can check the daily bell schedule and get local notifications (alerts) before class begins. Teacher mode will give a warning before the class ends. The number of minutes warning can be customized.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DBHS Bells at none against Monarch Bell Schedule's 1. DBHS Bells also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Monarch Bell Schedule's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 12) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14). On price, rating, ads 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. Monarch Bell Schedule sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DBHS Bells asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Monarch Bell Schedule against 4.7 for DBHS Bells. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 48 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Monarch Bell Schedule's written reviews are positive against 100% of DBHS Bells's.
Monarch Bell Schedule ships an update every 2 months, DBHS Bells monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Monarch Bell Schedule | DBHS Bells |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (48 ratings) | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathon Cihlar | Jeremiah Wai |
Customer experience
Monarch Bell Schedule
DBHS Bells
In-app purchases
Monarch Bell Schedule
- Monarch Bell Schedule GoldFree
DBHS Bells
No in-app purchases
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