Comparison

NAESP vs SWIS Suite

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

Head to head
About

NAESP

Features
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The Association believes that the progress and well-being of the individual child must be at the forefront of all elementary and middle-school planning and operations. Further, NAESP supports elementary and middle-level principals as the primary catalyst for creating a lasting foundation for learning, driving school and student performance, and shaping the long-term impact of school improvement efforts. As a national organization, NAESP operates through a network of affiliated associations in every state, the District of Columbia, Canada, and overseas.

About

SWIS Suite

This app allows educators to submit student behavior referrals directly from their mobile devices. It supports documenting all aspects of an incident, managing workflows, and syncing data seamlessly with the desktop version for data-based decision making.

Highlights
  • Submit student behavior referrals on-the-go
  • Document incident details comprehensively
  • Save referrals as drafts or complete
  • Seamless data sync with desktop app
  • Manage pending, draft, and assigned referrals
  • Paperless referral workflows
Features
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SWIS Mobile is your app to enter referrals on-the-go wherever student behavior happens. Send a referral for review, save it as a draft to finish when you have more time, or save it as complete and move on with your day. Every referral entered in SWIS Mobile seamlessly flows into your SWIS desktop app for decision making. To access the SWIS Suite mobile app your school must be using the SWIS Suite for data-based decision making. In the app: • Document behaviors you manage in the classroom and behaviors you send to the office. • Document every part of an incident including: student, date, time, behavior, location, motivation, others involved, action taken, notes, custom fields, and more. • Enable referral workflows and take your process fully paperless. • Review pending, draft, and assigned referrals in Referral Management. • Set personal defaults for referral entry to make things more efficient. • Quickly look up previous referrals with search filters built into the app.

Screenshots

NAESP4 screens
SWIS Suite4 screens

Verdict

The call

NAESP and SWIS Suite are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NAESP ships an update every 4 months, SWIS Suite every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
NAESP versus SWIS Suite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNAESPSWIS Suite
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNational Association of Elementary School PrincipalsUniversity of Oregon Digital Press

In-app purchases

None

NAESP

No in-app purchases

None

SWIS Suite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NAESP free?
NAESP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SWIS Suite free?
SWIS Suite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NAESP or SWIS Suite have ads?
Neither NAESP nor SWIS Suite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NAESP or SWIS Suite?
NAESP ships an update every 4 months, and SWIS Suite every 2 months. Most recently, NAESP was updated on September 24, 2026 and SWIS Suite on October 6, 2026.

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