SchoolPass vs SAEA
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
SAEA
This app serves as a central hub for a school community, providing parents, students, and staff with convenient access to essential information and communication tools. It offers features like announcements, event calendars, grade tracking, and financial information, keeping everyone connected and informed.
- Announcements
- Event Calendars
- Student Grades
- Athletics Information
- Financial Access
- Community Communication
Read full descriptionHide full description
Welcome to the official app for St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy in Fort Pierce, FL. This app is a one-stop shop for our parents, students, and school community, with any time, anywhere access to all the tools, content, and communications needed to stay connected and engaged. This app is our primary communication portal and provides easy access to Announcements, Calendars of Events, Student Grades, Athletics, FACTS Financial and so much more!
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SchoolPass at fortnightly against SAEA's every 6 months. SchoolPass also leads on ratings volume (4.8K vs 1). SAEA's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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.
SAEA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 4.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SchoolPass ships an update fortnightly, SAEA every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolPass | SAEA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — 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 | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raptor Technologies, LLC | ST. ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL ACADEMY, INC. |
Customer experience
SchoolPass
SAEA
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
SAEA
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
SAEA
No in-app purchases
