SSCAL vs ActionCitizen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SSCAL
This app serves as a business, financial, management, and advocacy resource for educational agencies in California. It provides a focused array of services built on over four decades of leadership and expertise in public education.
- Business resource for educational agencies
- Financial management tools
- Advocacy services
- Expertise in public education
- Long-standing leadership and continuity
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School Services of California Inc. (SSC) was founded in 1975 by Ken Hall, former Deputy Director of the Department of Finance during the Reagan administration. It has since evolved into the premier business, financial, management, and advocacy resource for educational agencies in California. From 1999 to 2014, our company was led by Ron Bennett. John Gray assumed the role of President in 2015. More than four decades of leadership by only three long-serving leaders has given the company and its employees the continuity necessary to provide a finely focused array of services to public education in California.
ActionCitizen
Explore the connection between U.S. government and citizens through legislation using primary source documents and interactive elements. Develop critical analysis skills and civic awareness to understand how individuals can influence lawmaking.
- Theme-based learning modules
- Primary source document gallery
- Analysis of historical documents
- Interactive mini-games
- Civic awareness development
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Action Citizen is a learning tool that uses primary source documents, photographs, maps, and other items to explore the relationships between the U.S. government and the American people through legislation. The game encourages players to evaluate those relationships and discover how one individual can influence legislative direction. Action Citizen aids in developing skills to critically analyze primary sources, accurately summarize key details and ideas, elevate sources presented in diverse formats, and develop civic awareness on how legislation is influenced by American citizens. Features: - Theme-based modules with individual intro videos - Primary Source Gallery - Primary Source Analysis - Mini-games The first module released is on the environment with additional modules on indigenous people and immigration coming soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: SSCAL at 31 against ActionCitizen's 1. ActionCitizen's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SSCAL against 5.0 for ActionCitizen. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SSCAL has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | SSCAL | ActionCitizen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | School Services of California | Indiana University |
Customer experience
SSCAL
ActionCitizen
In-app purchases
SSCAL
No in-app purchases
ActionCitizen
No in-app purchases
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