RCA House Points vs CritterCoin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RCA House Points
This app facilitates a house points system for educational institutions, enabling staff to award points for various achievements and allowing parents to track their child's progress. It fosters a positive school culture through healthy competition and character development.
- Award points for academic excellence and character
- Track student's historic point log
- Receive notifications for awarded points
- View school and national leaderboards
- Include notes explaining point awards
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Welcome to the official interactive mobile app for the Ron Clark Academy House Points System. The Ron Clark Academy House System is a dynamic, exciting, and proven way to create a positive climate and culture for students and staff. Using RCA’s methods will help your school or district confidently implement processes that build character, relationships, and school spirit. Our guidelines are designed to give you a streamlined framework that can be applied to various learning environments. The RCA House Points System supports the RCA House System — both work together to create a fun and healthy competitive spirit amongst the Houses. Points are collected throughout the year by each student (counting toward their overall House’s score) to help determine the champions at the end of the year. The Ron Clark Academy House Points mobile app is a great new tool that: * Allows teachers and staff award points to a student or house for academic excellence, character, performance, school spirit, and much more. * Allows parents to view a historic log of points earned by their child. * Gives parents the option to receive notifications telling them that a teacher or staff member has awarded points to their child. * Allows staff to include a note telling the parent why the student earned the points. * Allows parents to celebrate their child’s achievements after school. * Allows parents and staff to view a scoreboard of points earned at their perspective schools. * Also allows parents and staff to view the national leaderboard for RCA's four Houses.
CritterCoin
This app helps schools implement a house system and reward students with digital coins and collectibles. It facilitates recognition and engagement within the educational environment.
- School House System creation
- Rewards Store functionality
- Digital Coin rewards
- Student recognition
- Collectible rewards
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Create a school House System, Rewards Store and more using CritterCoin. Reward and recognize students using 3d Digital Coins and Collectibles.
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Verdict
RCA House Points and CritterCoin both sit at 3.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 68% of RCA House Points's written reviews are positive against 31% of CritterCoin's. RCA House Points also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (241 vs 1). 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 — 3.9 for RCA House Points against 4.0 for CritterCoin. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RCA House Points has 241 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of RCA House Points's written reviews are positive against 31% of CritterCoin's.
RCA House Points ships an update every 4 days, CritterCoin every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RCA House Points | CritterCoin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (241 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews — better | 31.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 241 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.7 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Ron Clark Academy Inc | RedCritter Corp. |
Customer experience
RCA House Points
CritterCoin
Bugs and requests
RCA House Points
Reported bugs
5 issues- Home screen locked
- Inability to award points
- Constant error messages
- Incompatibility with iOS updates
- Kiosk display not functioning as promised
Requested features
5 requests- Improved app stability and reliability
- Faster performance and loading times
- Enhanced user interface and navigation
- Better integration with school systems
- Expanded communication features
CritterCoin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RCA House Points
No in-app purchases
CritterCoin
No in-app purchases
Questions
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