SchoolPass vs MTO DesMoines
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.
MTO DesMoines
This app connects parents, students, teachers, and administrators with essential school resources, news, and information. It provides access to important updates, interactive event calendars, and online learning tools to keep the school community informed and engaged.
- School news updates
- Interactive event calendars
- Access to online resources
- Stay connected with school
- Information for administrators
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The MTO DesMoines app enables parents, students, teachers and administrators to quickly access the resources, tools, news and information to stay connected and informed! The MTO DesMoines app features: - Important news from your school - Interactive resources including event calendars and more - Quick access to online resources
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: SchoolPass at 5K against MTO DesMoines's 2. MTO DesMoines's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
MTO DesMoines holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 5K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SchoolPass ships an update monthly, MTO DesMoines every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolPass | MTO DesMoines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 110 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Raptor Technologies, LLC | MOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF DES MOINES, IOWA |
Customer experience
SchoolPass
MTO DesMoines
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
MTO DesMoines
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
MTO DesMoines
No in-app purchases
Questions
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