Comparison

iAttended vs Student Ally

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

Head to head
About

iAttended

Easily confirm your presence at events and meetings by scanning QR codes, entering text codes, or clicking a button. Receive instant confirmation and track your attendance progress towards organizational requirements. Your data syncs securely to the cloud.

Highlights
  • Scan QR codes for attendance
  • Enter text codes
  • Click to confirm presence
  • Immediate confirmation of recording
  • Track attendance progress
  • Cloud-based data storage
  • Syncs with organizations
Features
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Prove you were there — in seconds. iAttended is the fastest way to check in and track your attendance at events, classes, chapel, and meetings. Confirm you're present by scanning a QR code, entering a text code, watching a video, or tapping a button — and get instant confirmation that your attendance was recorded. Track your progress. See exactly where you stand against the attendance requirements set by your school or organization, so you never lose track of a meeting, class, or event. Sign in your way. Get started with just your email, or use the Apple, Google, or Microsoft account you already have. Always in sync. Your attendance check-ins are stored securely in the cloud and sync instantly with the school or organization that hosted the event. When you check in, they know you were there — right away. Whether you're a student tracking class attendance, a member checking in at meetings, or an attendee at an event, iAttended makes attendance simple, fast, and reliable.

About

Student Ally

Empowers students to enhance their personal safety and community well-being. This app provides training, resources, reporting, and evidence preservation. It aims to build a safer future through a dedicated social network for students.

Highlights
  • Personal safety tools
  • Community well-being features
  • Student training and resources
  • Revolutionary reporting system
  • Evidence preservation
  • Social network for student safety
Features
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The Student Ally Application empowers students to take a more active role in their personal safety and community wellbeing. The Student Ally System is built around engaging and empowering student communities, and our application is the primary conduit for that empowerment. Providing improved student training and resources, industry-leading safety systems, revolutionary reporting, and evidence-preservation capabilities, and creating the world’s first social network designed for student safety and community improvement – Student Ally is devoted to building a better tomorrow.

Screenshots

iAttended4 screens
Student Ally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: iAttended at 1.8 against Student Ally's 1.1. iAttended also leads on review sentiment (30% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, 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

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

iAttended holds the better App Store score, 1.8 against 1.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 53 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of iAttended's written reviews are positive against 0% of Student Ally's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iAttended ships an update every 5 days, Student Ally monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iAttended versus Student Ally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriAttendedStudent Ally
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (19 ratings) — better1.1 (53 ratings)
Positive reviews30.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1953 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames DuncanEDJN

Customer experience

iAttended

All ratings17 ratings
Positive11.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative82.4%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive30.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative67.5%

Student Ally

All ratings52 ratings
Positive1.9%
Neutral1.9%
Negative96.2%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

iAttended

No in-app purchases

None

Student Ally

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iAttended free?
iAttended is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Student Ally free?
Student Ally is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, iAttended or Student Ally?
iAttended is rated higher. iAttended averages 1.8 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Student Ally averages 1.1 from 53 ratings.
Do iAttended or Student Ally have ads?
Neither iAttended nor Student Ally shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iAttended or Student Ally?
iAttended ships an update every 5 days, and Student Ally monthly. Most recently, iAttended was updated on November 3, 2026 and Student Ally on November 3, 2026.

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