Comparison

Grow Video vs Schoolmint Hero

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

Head to head
About

Grow Video

This app helps educators record and reflect on classroom instruction to improve coaching and feedback. It facilitates video analysis for professional development and enhances the impact of instructional conversations.

Highlights
  • Record classroom instruction
  • Reflect on teaching practices
  • Facilitate coaching conversations
  • Enhance feedback delivery
  • Video analysis for professional development
Features
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Grow's Video Hub elevates classroom observation by making it easy for teachers and instructional leaders to record and reflect on classroom instruction, in order to increase the impact of coaching conversations and feedback.

About

Schoolmint Hero

This app streamlines the tracking of student behaviors and disciplinary actions for educators. It offers efficient workflows for managing student information, including searching, scanning IDs, and applying consequences. Enhanced security features and a mobile-first design aim to improve school productivity.

Highlights
  • Track single or multiple behaviors
  • Scan student IDs for quick access
  • Apply disciplinary actions and policies
  • View student contact and behavior history
  • Enhanced security with biometrics
  • Multiple compliance modes
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The new Hero app is designed to make tracking behaviors, complying disciplinary actions, and reviewing student information an efficient experience on any mobile device. With drastic improvements to mobile barcode reading, redesigned workflows to make tracking multiple students easier, smarter ways to search for students, and new compliance modes, these new apps are designed to fit in seamlessly with how you work at school. We're also excited about what these apps represent: a new mobile platform for Hero that we can aggressively expand upon. The world is mobile first, and we believe your school productivity apps should be the same. In the future, we will be adding classroom interfaces, integrating the student and guardian portals, and adding all kinds of amazing functionality to these apps. Features Include: - Track single or multiple behaviors at once, by searching or scanning IDs - Choose disciplinary actions and dates, or apply a default policy - Comply student disciplinary actions by student, by scanning IDs, or by disciplinary action - See contact information, behavior history, behavior overview, and schedule in student profile - Enhanced security through supported biometrics (FaceID, TouchID) Existing App Users, Notice These Key Differences: - Event tracking is not supported in the new apps at this time. - The general behavior tracking workflow has been revised. - You are now able to select multiple behaviors, and then initiate a scan or search to select a student. - Once you have selected a student, you can confirm all of the behaviors and consequences to apply. - A student's behavior history only shows the 200 most recent entries. - Compliance now has three modes: Search, scan, and list.

Screenshots

Grow Video4 screens
Schoolmint Hero3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Grow Video at 3.4 against Schoolmint Hero's 2.1. Grow Video also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Grow Video holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow Video ships an update every 2 months, Schoolmint Hero monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Grow Video versus Schoolmint Hero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrow VideoSchoolmint Hero
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (5 ratings) — better2.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings57 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevel Data, LLCSchoolMint

Customer experience

Grow Video

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Schoolmint Hero

All ratings7 ratings
Positive28.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative71.4%

In-app purchases

None

Grow Video

No in-app purchases

None

Schoolmint Hero

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grow Video free?
Grow Video is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Schoolmint Hero free?
Schoolmint Hero is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Grow Video or Schoolmint Hero?
Grow Video is rated higher. Grow Video averages 3.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Schoolmint Hero averages 2.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Grow Video or Schoolmint Hero have ads?
Neither Grow Video nor Schoolmint Hero shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grow Video or Schoolmint Hero?
Grow Video ships an update every 2 months, and Schoolmint Hero monthly. Most recently, Grow Video was updated on November 3, 2026 and Schoolmint Hero on November 8, 2026.

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