YMCA LA vs Connectd for Schools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YMCA LA
Easily manage your fitness journey with this app. Reserve equipment, classes, and swim lanes. Access health programs, event information, facility hours, and important alerts.
- Schedule health and wellness activities
- Reserve equipment, classes, and courts
- View facility hours
- Digital membership barcode
- Receive instant alerts and notifications
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The YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles app makes getting and staying fit easier than ever! Reserve equipment, classes, swim lanes and get instant access to health & wellness programs, events, hours, alerts and all our programs. Features: SCHEDULE YOUR HEALTH & WELLNESS View, search and reserve equipment, classes, small group training, racquetball courts, personal training, and more. FACILITY HOURS Quickly find out opening and closing times. BARCODE SCAN - Enter our facilities with your digital membership key card. ALERTS - Stay up to date with what’s happening at the LA Y with instant notifications and in app alerts. Please send any feedback and questions to info@ymcaLA.org. We love hearing from you!
Connectd for Schools
This app offers a curated library of resources to improve community wellbeing for students, educators, and parents. It provides personalized pathways for managing emotions, improving sleep, and learning calming techniques, with monthly content updates and gamified achievements.
- Curated library of wellbeing resources
- Personalized pathways for emotional management
- Calming techniques and sleep improvement
- Monthly content updates
- Gamified achievements and experience points
- School customization options
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Good things happen when people feel good. Connectd For Schools helps your community improve its wellbeing. It's an app made for students, educators and school staff, and parents. Use it throughout the academic year... and beyond! Connectd for Schools makes it easy to achieve wellbeing goals with a variety of engaging resources. Need help responding to uncomfortable emotions? Having trouble sleeping? Do you want to learn calming techniques? Explore our personalized pathways! Connectd for Schools is a curated library of resources to help you improve your overall wellbeing. And we keep adding content every month, so there's always something new to check out! Periodic wellbeing check-ins help understand and manage your feelings, and provides resources to help lift you higher. Your school can customize what kinds of resources are shared and how the app is set up. Connectd for Schools is fun to use; earn badges for personal achievements and experience points for your school throughout the academic year. Connectd for Schools provides new ways to help everyone at your school feel good more often. To help everyone stay.... "connected".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Connectd for Schools at 4.4 against YMCA LA's 1.8. Connectd for Schools also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.1). YMCA LA's advantage is ratings volume (164 vs 7). 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.
Connectd for Schools holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YMCA LA has 164 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
YMCA LA ships an update every 2 months, Connectd for Schools every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YMCA LA | Connectd for Schools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (164 ratings) | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 164 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Attollo Technology LLC | Allyance Logic |
Customer experience
YMCA LA
Connectd for Schools
Bugs and requests
YMCA LA
Reported bugs
38 issues- Cannot log in
- Email with pin never arrives
- App crashes
- Feedback form doesn't work
- Keyboard cannot be dismissed
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- App is slow
- App logs out randomly
- App doesn't save preferred location
- App doesn't show family members
- App doesn't work at night
- App doesn't auto-refresh
- App doesn't show full swim lanes
- App errors: unable to get class data
- App errors: unable to get equipment data
- Missed check-ins
- App doesn't show classes
- Cannot cancel classes
- Cannot jump on waitlist
- App times out
- App doesn't find user account
- App doesn't accept new password from website
- App doesn't show available times unless day is selected
- App says cannot retrieve family data
- App doesn't work for childcare reservations
- App doesn't work for court bookings
- App doesn't work for open swim
- App doesn't work for waitlisting
- App doesn't sync name with account
- App redirects to website
- App doesn't remember login
- App gives weird error messages
- App doesn't let you reserve childcare
- App doesn't let you reserve spots
- App doesn't allow new account creation easily
- App doesn't allow booking courts easily
- App doesn't send pin
- App shows incorrect date for reservation
- App doesn't connect to YMCA system for email/password
Requested features
8 requests- History of check-ins
- Overall number of check-ins by year/month
- Number of streaks (days/weeks)
- Allow selecting one date, time, and duration for multiple people
- Develop a new app
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- List available court times for booking
- Offer website booking option
- Provide scannable keycard option
Connectd for Schools
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
YMCA LA
No in-app purchases
Connectd for Schools
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is YMCA LA free?
Is Connectd for Schools free?
Which has better reviews, YMCA LA or Connectd for Schools?
Do YMCA LA or Connectd for Schools have ads?
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