Comparison

Schoolrunner 2.0 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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

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

Schoolrunner 2.04 screens
SWIS Suite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SWIS Suite at 5.0 against Schoolrunner 2.0's 2.0. Schoolrunner 2.0's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 5) and update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

SWIS Suite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Schoolrunner 2.0 has 114 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Schoolrunner 2.0 ships an update monthly, SWIS Suite every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Schoolrunner 2.0 versus SWIS Suite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchoolrunner 2.0SWIS Suite
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (114 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings114 — better5
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSchoolMintUniversity of Oregon Digital Press

Customer experience

Schoolrunner 2.0

All ratings113 ratings
Positive23.0%
Neutral4.4%
Negative72.6%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive11.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative88.5%

SWIS Suite

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Schoolrunner 2.0

No in-app purchases

None

SWIS Suite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Schoolrunner 2.0 free?
Schoolrunner 2.0 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SWIS Suite free?
SWIS Suite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Schoolrunner 2.0 or SWIS Suite?
SWIS Suite is rated higher. Schoolrunner 2.0 averages 2.0 out of 5 from 114 ratings, while SWIS Suite averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Schoolrunner 2.0 or SWIS Suite have ads?
Neither Schoolrunner 2.0 nor SWIS Suite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Schoolrunner 2.0 or SWIS Suite?
Schoolrunner 2.0 ships an update monthly, and SWIS Suite every 2 months. Most recently, Schoolrunner 2.0 was updated on October 24, 2026 and SWIS Suite on October 13, 2026.

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