Comparison

SchoolPass vs GATEway Experiences

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Campus movement management
  • Attendance tracking
  • Campus wellness screening
  • Visitor and staff management
  • Emergency preparedness
  • Cloud-based platform
Features
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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.

About

GATEway Experiences

This app provides global academic and cultural immersion programs designed by educators to broaden students' perspectives. It fosters mutual understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures through hands-on, experiential learning, preparing students to be lifelong learners and global citizens.

Highlights
  • Academic and cultural immersion
  • Global programming
  • Experiential education
  • Develops global citizenship
  • Fosters cultural appreciation
  • Designed by educators
Features
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GATEway, or Global Access To Education, offers global programming that supports, enhances, and develops our students’ view of the world, its diverse cultures, and its people. Through academic and cultural immersion programs, we broaden our students’ perspectives of life beyond our borders in order to foster a mutual understanding and appreciation among all individuals, both at home and abroad. GATEway is first and foremost an academic program. It differs from other travel programs because it is designed and executed by educators, for the benefit of students. Through hands-on and experiential education, GATEway prepares our students (our “GATEmates”) to be lifelong learners and true global citizens.

Screenshots

SchoolPass4 screens
GATEway Experiences3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: SchoolPass at 4.8K against GATEway Experiences's 3. SchoolPass also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks). GATEway Experiences'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

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

GATEway Experiences 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SchoolPass ships an update fortnightly, GATEway Experiences every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SchoolPass versus GATEway Experiences: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchoolPassGATEway Experiences
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.8K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews19.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.8K — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB387 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaptor Technologies, LLCIara Coltro

Customer experience

SchoolPass

All ratings4,824 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral1.3%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews97 reviews
Positive19.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative78.4%

GATEway Experiences

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

GATEway Experiences

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SchoolPass

No in-app purchases

None

GATEway Experiences

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SchoolPass free?
SchoolPass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GATEway Experiences free?
GATEway Experiences is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SchoolPass or GATEway Experiences?
GATEway Experiences is rated higher. SchoolPass averages 4.7 out of 5 from 4.8K ratings, while GATEway Experiences averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do SchoolPass or GATEway Experiences have ads?
Neither SchoolPass nor GATEway Experiences shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SchoolPass or GATEway Experiences?
SchoolPass ships an update fortnightly, and GATEway Experiences every 6 weeks. Most recently, SchoolPass was updated on September 26, 2026 and GATEway Experiences on August 17, 2026.

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