SchoolPass vs Vanguard Vikings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Vanguard Vikings
This educational app from a preparatory school focuses on academic success and personal development. It emphasizes rigor, responsibility, and respect to foster a personalized learning experience for students aiming for collegiate excellence.
- Personalized learning experience
- Focus on rigor, responsibility, respect
- Preparation for collegiate level
- Academic success focus
- Community commitment
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Vanguard College Preparatory School is a non-parochial, independent school in Waco, Texas that prepares our students for academic success and fulfilling lives. The foundation of the Vanguard experience is based on our core values – rigor, responsibility, and respect. The community of Vanguard students, faculty, administrators, and parents are committed to a personalized learning experience that prepares each student to excel at the collegiate level. This commitment is what truly makes Vanguard Waco’s best high school.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vanguard Vikings at 100% against SchoolPass's 20%. SchoolPass's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.1) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 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
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 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 5K ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of SchoolPass's written reviews are positive against 100% of Vanguard Vikings's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SchoolPass ships an update monthly, Vanguard Vikings every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolPass | Vanguard Vikings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better | 3.1 (47 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 months |
| 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 | 110 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raptor Technologies, LLC | Vanguard College Preparatory School |
Customer experience
SchoolPass
Vanguard Vikings
Bugs and 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
Vanguard Vikings
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
Vanguard Vikings
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is SchoolPass free?
Is Vanguard Vikings free?
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Do SchoolPass or Vanguard Vikings have ads?
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