Schoolrunner 2.0 vs Persistence Prep Academy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Schoolrunner 2.0
This app streamlines school administration for staff, students, and guardians. It offers quick logging of student behaviors, attendance tracking, and communication tools like call/email logging and in-app messaging. Users can also access student profiles and search for school-related information.
- Log student behaviors
- Track class attendance
- Log calls and emails
- Send in-app messages to guardians
- View and update student profiles
- Search for students and groups
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** Please note: you must be a staff member, student, or guardian at a Schoolrunner partner school to access the Schoolrunner mobile app. ** The Schoolrunner mobile app is a convenient companion to our full-featured web app. Our mobile app has these features to make teachers' days easier: Behaviors – Quickly give 1 or more behaviors to 1 or more students. See your most relevant groups right away or easily search for anyone. Save favorites and see your most recently given behaviors for even quicker tracking. View and edit behaviors you've given from the app today. Choose whether to play sounds when giving behaviors. Class Attendance – See your class sections or search for any other section. Log attendance with a few taps and see your class attendance percentage update in real time. Communication – Automatically log calls and emails placed from the Schoolrunner mobile app with details such as topic, mood, and comments. Manually log communications without having to make a call. View all communications for a student whether logged by you or someone else. In-App Messaging: send messages to guardians of students in a group/homeroom/section, or to all guardians of a particular student. Choose to accept replies from guardians or restrict to no-reply announcements. Change your language to automatically translate incoming messages into your home language. Student Profile - A work in progress. View and update student photos with your device's camera or photo library to add faces to names. View pertinent information like homeroom, birthday, and alerts. Search - Quickly find any student group, section, or student at your school. Star the most important groups for quick access and manage your notification preferences for them. Go directly to the Attendance, Behaviors, Communications, and Student pages from search results.
Persistence Prep Academy
This app keeps parents, students, teachers, and administrators connected with school news, event calendars, and online resources. It provides quick access to important information and tools to stay informed about school activities.
- School news updates
- Interactive event calendars
- Access to online resources
- Stay connected with school
- Information for all stakeholders
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The Persistence Prep Academy app enables parents, students, teachers and administrators to quickly access the resources, tools, news and information to stay connected and informed! The Persistence Prep Academy app features: - Important news from your school - Interactive resources including event calendars and more - Quick access to online resources
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Persistence Prep Academy at 100% against Schoolrunner 2.0's 12%. Persistence Prep Academy also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.0) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Schoolrunner 2.0's advantage is ratings volume (110 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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.
Persistence Prep Academy holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Schoolrunner 2.0 has 110 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of Schoolrunner 2.0's written reviews are positive against 100% of Persistence Prep Academy's.
Schoolrunner 2.0 ships an update every 3 weeks, Persistence Prep Academy every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Schoolrunner 2.0 | Persistence Prep Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (110 ratings) | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SchoolMint | Persistence Preparatory, Inc. |
Customer experience
Schoolrunner 2.0
Persistence Prep Academy
In-app purchases
Schoolrunner 2.0
No in-app purchases
Persistence Prep Academy
No in-app purchases
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