Parent Booker vs SchoolPass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Parent Booker
This app helps parents stay informed about school volunteer opportunities. It allows for easy sign-ups, tracks service hours against school-defined targets, and provides a targeted list of opportunities based on children's classes.
- Targeted volunteer opportunities
- One-click sign-up/withdrawal
- On-the-spot hour recording
- Progress meter against targets
- School-branded app integration
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Does your school have an app, branded to the school, that keeps parents informed about volunteer opportunities? Parent Booker is an iPhone, iPad and web app that informs parents about volunteer opportunities, lets them sign up and tracks their hours against targets. - See a targeted list of volunteer opportunities based on your children's classes - Instantly sign up or withdraw with one click - Record your service hours on the spot using this mobile app! - Track your service hours against school defined targets via a progress meter NOTE: In order to use the Parent Booker app your school must be signed up for Parent Booker and you must have registered via the PC website.
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.
- Campus movement management
- Attendance tracking
- Campus wellness screening
- Visitor and staff management
- Emergency preparedness
- Cloud-based platform
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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.
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Verdict
Parent Booker and SchoolPass both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 90% of Parent Booker's written reviews are positive against 20% of SchoolPass's. SchoolPass's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (5K vs 12). 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 — 4.6 for Parent Booker against 4.7 for SchoolPass. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 5K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Parent Booker's written reviews are positive against 20% of SchoolPass's.
Parent Booker ships an update every 5 months, SchoolPass monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Parent Booker | SchoolPass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (12 ratings) | 4.7 (5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 20.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Hall | Raptor Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
Parent Booker
SchoolPass
Bugs and requests
Parent Booker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Parent Booker
No in-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
Questions
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