Comparison

SchoolPass vs Storypie

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

Storypie

This app uses engaging audio stories to teach children aged 3-12 complex topics in an age-appropriate way. Kids can explore biographies, science, art, and more, or create their own personalized adventures with illustrations and coloring pages.

Highlights
  • Age-banded educational content
  • First-person historical biographies
  • Personalized story creation
  • Printable coloring pages
  • Multilingual support (27 languages)
  • Ad-free and distraction-free environment
Features
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Storypie turns curiosity into confidence — screen-optional learning kids love. Press play and your child steps inside history and science, told in the first person: Einstein explains relativity, Cleopatra recounts her reign, the pyramids reveal how they were built. With 85,000+ professionally narrated audio stories in 27 languages — true localization, not auto-dubbing — kids learn while drawing, playing, traveling, or winding down for bed. WHAT KIDS CAN DO - Learn & Explore: age-banded biographies, inventions, places, events, mythology, science, math, and art — with narration, key dates, related topics, and comprehension questions - First-Person Stories: hear historical figures "tell" their own stories, age-appropriate and fact-grounded - Create Personalized Stories: adventures starring your child, with illustrations and printable coloring pages - Read Along: word-by-word highlighting helps early readers follow as they listen NEW: STUDENT & CLASSROOM MODE - Kids can join a class, see assignments, and learn independently - Built-in quizzes and worksheets turn any story into practice - A focused, kid-safe space for school and home FOR PARENTS & TEACHERS - Instant AI worksheets, quizzes, and printable activities - Child profiles with personalized recommendations - Standards-aligned content for Pre-K through Grade 8 - Save hours each week with classroom-ready materials SAFE BY DESIGN - COPPA compliant - Ad-free, no pop-ups ever - No third-party tracking 27 LANGUAGES, REAL NARRATION Professional narration across a broad set of languages — ideal for bilingual households and ELL/ESL learners. OUR PLEDGE: ONE PAYS, ONE LEARNS FREE Every subscription helps give another child free access to learning — already 300,000+ children supported across 200+ countries. Turn screen time into growth time — where imagination meets understanding. Privacy Policy: https://mystorypie.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://mystorypie.com/terms

Screenshots

SchoolPass4 screens
Storypie4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Storypie at 100% against SchoolPass's 20%. Storypie also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). SchoolPass's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (5K vs 34). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Storypie sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. SchoolPass asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Storypie 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 34, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of SchoolPass's written reviews are positive against 100% of Storypie's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SchoolPass ships an update monthly, Storypie every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SchoolPass versus Storypie: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchoolPassStorypie
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5K ratings)5.0 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5K — better34
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaptor Technologies, LLCStorypie LLC

Customer experience

SchoolPass

All ratings4,927 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive20.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative77.6%

Storypie

All ratings33 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
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

Storypie

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SchoolPass

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Storypie

Subscriptions2
  • Storypie Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Storypie Plus Annual$49.991 Year

Questions

Is SchoolPass free?
SchoolPass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Storypie free?
Storypie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SchoolPass or Storypie?
Storypie is rated higher. SchoolPass averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while Storypie averages 5.0 from 34 ratings.
Do SchoolPass or Storypie have ads?
Neither SchoolPass nor Storypie shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SchoolPass or Storypie?
SchoolPass ships an update monthly, and Storypie every 3 weeks. Most recently, SchoolPass was updated on October 29, 2026 and Storypie on October 22, 2026.

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