Comparison

SchoolPass vs Bellwork

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

Bellwork

Features
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Bellwork helps private schools document the moments that matter — and turn them into beautiful stories. Teachers capture classroom and event highlights with photos and a few quick notes. Each submission flows into a review queue where admins see AI-suggested grammar and clarity polish written in the school's own editorial voice. Once approved, content syncs automatically to Notion for use in newsletters, social media, and longer feature pieces. Built for educators who care about voice, brand, and authentic storytelling. FEATURES - Up to 8 photos per event with a swipeable, matted gallery - Editorial review queue with AI-assisted polish in your school's voice - Per-school branding — colors, typography, and tone driven entirely from your brand kit - Notion sync for downstream distribution to social, web, and print - Real-time school announcements with native push notifications - Searchable archive across titles, tags, classes, and teachers - Tag system for organizing by subject, event type, or initiative - Save photos to your camera roll for use elsewhere A note about your data Bellwork stores photos and event details in Firebase, secured by Google Cloud infrastructure. Each school's data is fully isolated. Integration tokens are stored encrypted. See our privacy policy for details. For school inquiries: hello@getbellwork.com

Screenshots

SchoolPass4 screens
Bellwork4 screens

Verdict

The call

SchoolPass and Bellwork are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SchoolPass versus Bellwork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchoolPassBellwork
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (4.9K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews19.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.9K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size110 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRaptor Technologies, LLCPipkin Creative Marketing LLC

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

Bellwork

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SchoolPass

No in-app purchases

None

Bellwork

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SchoolPass free?
SchoolPass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bellwork free?
Bellwork is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SchoolPass or Bellwork have ads?
Neither SchoolPass nor Bellwork shows ads.

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