VEX via vs iHW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VEX via
Track the progress and results of various VEX Robotics Competition programs. Access team lists, schedules, rankings, and skills challenge results, with real-time updates and score alerts for your favorite teams.
- Follow VEX Robotics Competition events
- View team lists and schedules
- Access match and skills results
- Sort data by event or team
- Download event updates
- Receive instant score alerts
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VEX via allows you to follow the progress and results of the VEX Robotics Competition programs, including VEX V5 Robotics Competition (V5RC), VEX U Robotics Competition (VURC), VEX AI Robotics Competition (VAIRC), and VEX IQ Robotics Competition (VIQRC). Team lists, match schedules, match results, rankings, and skills challenge results are easy to access and can be sorted by event or by team. Result updates can be downloaded as the events unfold, and you can also register to receive instant score alerts for your favorite teams.
iHW
This app helps manage school life by integrating schedules and assignments. It provides daily updates for classes, exams, and enrollment changes, with the ability to add personal notes to periods. It is designed for students, faculty, and staff.
- Integrated HW schedule and Hub
- Automatic schedule change detection
- Daily assignment/exam refresh
- View class schedule for any day
- Add notes to periods
- Supports Middle and Upper School
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iHW: Manage your Harvard-Westlake school life. • This is the new iHW that integrates your HW schedule and the Hub. • iHW knows when your enrollment or period schedule changes. • Hub assignments/exams refresh every morning and on demand from Settings. • View your class schedule for any day of the year. • Add notes to any period. • Works for Middle and Upper School for students, faculty, and staff. • Uses icons8.com (CC-BY-ND 3.0). This application is based on the original version of iHW which was inspired and created by Jonathan Burns '14 and Ethan Madison '15.
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Verdict
VEX via and iHW both sit at 4.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 70% of iHW's written reviews are positive against 38% of VEX via's. VEX via's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 4.1 for VEX via against 4.2 for iHW. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 27 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 38% of VEX via's written reviews are positive against 70% of iHW's.
VEX via ships an update every 3 weeks, iHW every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VEX via | iHW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (23 ratings) | 4.2 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.0% of reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DWAB Technology, LLC | Harvard-Westlake School |
Customer experience
VEX via
iHW
Bugs and requests
VEX via
Reported bugs
36 issues- Match scores take too long to update
- Updated app doesn't show school team
- App not getting any data after iOS upgrade
- No information shows up when searching for events on iPhone
- App is super glitchy, cannot load basic functions
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- App opens to white space for match details
- UI design is inconsistent
- App crashes frequently
- App is extremely laggy and might crash
- Scores for teams never change
- App is very glitchy and lags
- No notifications on iOS version
- Notification prompt not appearing
- Favorite teams not highlighted in schedule
- App only shows last year's events
- App is poorly programmed, data not stored locally
- Slow to download events and scores on iPhone
- App not optimized for all specs, infrequent crashes
- Star icon used for favorites instead of heart icon
- App not working on iPhone, showing nothing for events/teams
- No events listed, developer doesn't respond to emails
- App needs fixing on the App Store
- Will not pull in current data
- All events are out of date, only shows for 2017
- App never worked properly during events
- Scheduling, results, notifications never worked
- App too busy trying to refresh, never updated info
- Difficult to navigate, no way to search
- Competitions listed in no particular order
- No search function
- Refresh needed many times for latest data
- No real replacement app
- Large amounts of teams and events are missing
- Rankings and teams show a blank screen
- App needs to be updated to the new game
- Data does not show up half the time
Requested features
11 requests- Update match scores faster
- Add scoring and stat explanations
- Highlight favorite teams in schedule
- Add team search function
- Advertise app more
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- Allow viewing past competitions for teams
- Search competitions by city/state
- Background update for app
- User login for automatic competition population
- Fully optimize for iPad
- Page dedicated to scoring
iHW
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
VEX via
No in-app purchases
iHW
No in-app purchases
