CommHQ vs CASD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
CASD
This app centralizes essential information for parents, students, and faculty, offering easy mobile access to news, announcements, photos, documents, and calendar events. Users can also browse a community directory and directly email contacts.
- News and announcements
- Photo and document access
- Calendar events
- Constituent directory
- Content filtering
- Direct email contact
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The CASD app provides parents, students, and faculty with all the information they need in one place, conveniently accessible and explicitly formatted for mobile devices. The App includes: - Blogs, news, and announcements - Pictures and documents - Calendar events - Constituent directory and more Download the app today to stay informed about the most important news, announcements, and calendar events, and to access the most current community directory. Users can: - Browse the latest published photos - Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use - Catch up on current news - Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filter calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests - Quickly find faculty, parent, and student contact information - Email a constituent directly from your device The information in the CASD app is drawn from the same source as the CASD website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CASD at 5.0 against CommHQ's 2.7. CommHQ's advantage is ratings volume (45 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
CASD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CommHQ has 45 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | CommHQ | CASD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | finalsite | Carbondale Area SD |
Customer experience
CommHQ
CASD
In-app purchases
CommHQ
No in-app purchases
CASD
No in-app purchases









