PHPS vs SchoolPass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PHPS
This app facilitates enhanced communication for a school community, ensuring families have access to the latest information and resources. It serves as a central hub for updates and essential materials.
- Community communication enhancement
- Up-to-date information access
- Resource sharing
- Family engagement
- School updates
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The PHPS app is designed to enhance communication with our community and to ensure that our families always have the most up-to-date information and resources.
SchoolPass
This K-12 platform streamlines campus management for schools, handling student arrivals, departures, and attendance. It modernizes visitor and staff screening, ensuring accurate accountability for everyone on campus, especially during emergencies.
- Campus movement management
- Attendance tracking
- Campus wellness screening
- Visitor and staff management
- Emergency preparedness
- Cloud-based platform
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SchoolPass is a K-12 platform that helps schools manage campus movement, attendance, and campus wellness, in the cloud. Schools can consolidate and modernize the arrival, screening, and departure of students, visitors, and staff in one place, while enabling staff to more quickly and accurately account for everyone on campus throughout the school day, especially during an emergency. Please note that you must have an SchoolPass account with a participating school in order to use this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SchoolPass at 4.7 against PHPS's 3.0. SchoolPass also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SchoolPass holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 4.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
PHPS ships an update every 5 months, SchoolPass monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PHPS | SchoolPass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (4.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 19.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Preston Hollow Presbyterian School | Raptor Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
PHPS
SchoolPass
Bugs and requests
PHPS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SchoolPass
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes or crashes on launch
- Login credentials not working
- Calendar functionality not working
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between students
- Profile photos and phone numbers not saving
Requested features
5 requests- Single login for multiple children across schools
- Automatic password saving and facial recognition
- Ability to edit driver/contact information
- Customizable UI for schools
- CarPlay integration
In-app purchases
PHPS
No in-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
