Comparison

CommHQ vs SWIS Suite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CommHQ

This app enables school administrators to send messages to parents, students, and staff through multiple channels like phone, email, and text. It offers a user-friendly interface for quick message creation and delivery confirmation, along with a mobile directory for easy access to contact information.

Highlights
  • C.O.P.E. mobile interface
  • Create and send messages
  • Send saved messages
  • Targeted recipient messaging
  • Track delivery progress
  • Manage delivery options
  • Mobile directory access
Features
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Designed by and for school administrators, Finalsite Communications HQ allows users to send messages whenever and wherever they need and confirm delivery. Usability tested to ensure ease of use, the C.O.P.E. mobile interface makes creating and sending messages a one-touch process. Multiple delivery methods (phone, email and text) allow you to contact parents and students in the most effective ways. With Mobile Directory, you have the entire district at your fingertips. See parent, student and staff addresses, phone numbers and emails. Key Features: * C.O.P.E. mobile interface * Create and send new messages * Send previously saved messages * Send to targeted recipients * Track message delivery progress * Manage delivery options Requirements: * Finalsite service * Finalsite administrator login * Finalsite teacher login * Wifi access or data plan for Internet access

About

SWIS Suite

This app allows educators to submit student behavior referrals directly from their mobile devices. It supports documenting all aspects of an incident, managing workflows, and syncing data seamlessly with the desktop version for data-based decision making.

Highlights
  • Submit student behavior referrals on-the-go
  • Document incident details comprehensively
  • Save referrals as drafts or complete
  • Seamless data sync with desktop app
  • Manage pending, draft, and assigned referrals
  • Paperless referral workflows
Features
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SWIS Mobile is your app to enter referrals on-the-go wherever student behavior happens. Send a referral for review, save it as a draft to finish when you have more time, or save it as complete and move on with your day. Every referral entered in SWIS Mobile seamlessly flows into your SWIS desktop app for decision making. To access the SWIS Suite mobile app your school must be using the SWIS Suite for data-based decision making. In the app: • Document behaviors you manage in the classroom and behaviors you send to the office. • Document every part of an incident including: student, date, time, behavior, location, motivation, others involved, action taken, notes, custom fields, and more. • Enable referral workflows and take your process fully paperless. • Review pending, draft, and assigned referrals in Referral Management. • Set personal defaults for referral entry to make things more efficient. • Quickly look up previous referrals with search filters built into the app.

Screenshots

CommHQ4 screens
SWIS Suite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SWIS Suite at 5.0 against CommHQ's 2.7. CommHQ's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 5). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SWIS Suite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CommHQ has 46 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CommHQ versus SWIS Suite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCommHQSWIS Suite
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (46 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings46 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.014.0
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperfinalsiteUniversity of Oregon Digital Press

Customer experience

CommHQ

All ratings44 ratings
Positive40.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative54.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive63.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative30.0%

SWIS Suite

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CommHQ

No in-app purchases

None

SWIS Suite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CommHQ free?
CommHQ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SWIS Suite free?
SWIS Suite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CommHQ or SWIS Suite?
SWIS Suite is rated higher. CommHQ averages 2.7 out of 5 from 46 ratings, while SWIS Suite averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do CommHQ or SWIS Suite have ads?
Neither CommHQ nor SWIS Suite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CommHQ or SWIS Suite?
CommHQ ships an update every 2 months, and SWIS Suite every 2 months. Most recently, CommHQ was updated on November 6, 2026 and SWIS Suite on November 4, 2026.

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