Comparison

PHPS vs Raptor Safe

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Community communication enhancement
  • Up-to-date information access
  • Resource sharing
  • Family engagement
  • School updates
Features
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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.

About

Raptor Safe

This app enhances school safety by streamlining visitor check-ins and managing student dismissals. It allows visitors to verify their identity for faster entry and enables parents to easily update dismissal plans and carpool arrangements.

Highlights
  • Secure visitor identity verification
  • Streamlined school check-in
  • Manage student dismissal plans
  • Authorize carpool pick-ups
  • Digital visitor passport
Currently charting
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Raptor Safe Raptor® Safe™ is a comprehensive app designed to enhance safety and streamline processes for school communities. The app simplifies check-in with secure, fast and convenient entry at schools that have Raptor® VisitorSafe™. The Raptor Safe app provides visitors to the school with the ability to manage and verify their identity. When visiting a school, the visitor’s secure QR code is used to streamline the process while advancing overall security. With Raptor® DismissalSafe™, the Raptor Safe app provides parents/guardians with user-friendly access to easily manage their student’s dismissal plans and carpools. - Raptor Passport: Verify your identity before arriving at school, allowing for a seamless sign-in experience. - Manage Student Dismissal Changes: View and make changes to your student’s dismissal plans. - Manage Your Carpool: Provide authorization for others to pick your student up from school during end-of-day dismissal. The Raptor Safe app is available to all parents/guardians at schools using Raptor DismissalSafe, as well as visitors at schools using Raptor VisitorSafe. If you have questions, please contact your school. Every Child. Every School. Every Day. Raptor® was founded in 2002 with the mission to protect every child, every school, every day. Today, Raptor is a school safety partner for 60,000 schools in 55 countries, providing SaaS and mobile technology as well as comprehensive training and consultation solutions across the entire school safety life cycle, ranging from crisis prevention and preparation to emergency response and recovery. Raptor’s globally integrated product portfolio supports a school’s foundation of safety and wellbeing, including Emergency Management, Campus Movement, Student Wellbeing and Safety Training and Compliance.

Screenshots

PHPS3 screens
Raptor Safe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PHPS at 3.0 against Raptor Safe's 2.0. PHPS also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Raptor Safe's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (59 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

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

PHPS holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Raptor Safe has 59 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PHPS ships an update every 5 months, Raptor Safe every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
PHPS versus Raptor Safe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPHPSRaptor Safe
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better2.0 (59 ratings)
Positive reviews—3.0% of reviews
Number of ratings259 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#127 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB263 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPreston Hollow Presbyterian SchoolRaptor Technologies, LLC

Customer experience

PHPS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Raptor Safe

All ratings59 ratings
Positive22.0%
Neutral3.4%
Negative74.6%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive3.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative93.9%

In-app purchases

None

PHPS

No in-app purchases

None

Raptor Safe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PHPS free?
PHPS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Raptor Safe free?
Raptor Safe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PHPS or Raptor Safe?
PHPS is rated higher. PHPS averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Raptor Safe averages 2.0 from 59 ratings.
Do PHPS or Raptor Safe have ads?
Neither PHPS nor Raptor Safe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PHPS or Raptor Safe?
PHPS ships an update every 5 months, and Raptor Safe every 3 weeks. Most recently, PHPS was updated on October 3, 2026 and Raptor Safe on October 17, 2026.

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