Comparison

SchoolPass vs ORIGEN

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

ORIGEN

This app offers a unique approach to spiritual practice through falsifiable experimentation. It guides users through three distinct paths—Manifestation, Healing, and Astral—with AI-powered mentors. Track your progress with a live 'Frequency' metric derived from sleep, heart coherence, and emotional state.

Highlights
  • Falsifiable spiritual practice
  • AI mentors (Hermes, Buddha, Odin)
  • Three distinct spiritual paths
  • Live 'Frequency' metric (0-1000)
  • Connects with Oura/Whoop wearables
  • Audiobook sessions with background play
  • Offline access
Features
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ORIGEN turns the numbers your ring already collects into a reading you can use. Connect Oura or Whoop and ORIGEN reads your history: sleep, HRV, resting heart rate, bedtime regularity. Then it compares each night against your own baseline and your own day-to-day noise, not against population averages. When something changes, it tells you in plain language, and when a change is inside your normal range, it tells you that too. TODAY One screen with last night's reading, what changed, and the few signals worth your attention. BUDDHA, YOUR GUIDE Ask about your data the way you'd ask a person. "How did I sleep this week?" "What's different on nights I eat late?" Buddha answers from your own history and says when there isn't enough data yet. You can log a whole day in one message: meals, supplements, how you feel. MEALS Snap your plate or describe it by voice or text. ORIGEN estimates calories and macros as an honest range, asks how it was cooked (oil is what photos miss), and lets you correct it by talking. Your photo is read and not stored. SUPPLEMENTS Log what you take with one tap or one sentence. ORIGEN keeps comparing nights with and without each one for as long as you take it, and tells you when you're taking several at once so no single effect can be read. YOUR BODY Your metrics over time, with the range that is normal for you. PRIVACY You choose what ORIGEN reads, see which AI providers process your data, and can export or delete everything from the app. ORIGEN PREMIUM The free version includes your daily reading, Buddha, meal and supplement logging. Premium adds plate photos, label photos and unlimited conversations with Buddha. Premium is a subscription managed in your ORIGEN account. ORIGEN is a wellness tool. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition and is not a substitute for medical advice. Talk to your doctor before changing medication or starting supplements. Terms: https://www.blackswanp.com/terms Privacy: https://www.blackswanp.com/privacy

Screenshots

SchoolPass4 screens
ORIGEN4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ORIGEN at 100% against SchoolPass's 20%. ORIGEN also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). SchoolPass's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (5K vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ORIGEN sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. SchoolPass asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ORIGEN 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. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of SchoolPass's written reviews are positive against 100% of ORIGEN's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SchoolPass ships an update monthly, ORIGEN every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SchoolPass versus ORIGEN: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchoolPassORIGEN
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5K — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — 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 MB253 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRaptor Technologies, LLCAlejandro Del Palacio

Customer experience

SchoolPass

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

ORIGEN

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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

ORIGEN

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SchoolPass

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

ORIGEN

Subscriptions6
  • ORIGEN Premium Monthly$19.991 Month
  • Regular Mensual$29.001 Month
  • Premium Mensual$49.001 Month
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  • ORIGEN Premium Yearly$129.991 Year
  • Regular Anual$249.001 Year
  • Premium Anual$490.001 Year

Questions

Is SchoolPass free?
SchoolPass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ORIGEN free?
ORIGEN is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SchoolPass or ORIGEN?
ORIGEN is rated higher. SchoolPass averages 4.7 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while ORIGEN averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SchoolPass or ORIGEN have ads?
Neither SchoolPass nor ORIGEN shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SchoolPass or ORIGEN?
SchoolPass ships an update monthly, and ORIGEN every 5 days. Most recently, SchoolPass was updated on October 25, 2026 and ORIGEN on October 25, 2026.

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