APSO vs BellsClock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
APSO
Submit anonymous tips to law enforcement and receive real-time crime alerts. Stay informed about community safety with direct access to agency news and social media.
- Anonymous tip submission
- Crime alerts
- Agency news
- Social media integration
- Community safety updates
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The APSO app provides citizens the ability to submit anonymous tips to the Ascension Parish, LA Sheriff's Office. The app also displays agency crime alerts and other organization web and social media content.
BellsClock
Easily create and manage custom school bell schedules. Import schedules from CSV files or websites, and export your own. Personalize screen colors and navigate with a hamburger menu.
- Customizable bell schedules
- Add/delete class periods
- Modify start/end times
- Import from CSV/web
- Export to CSV
- Personalize screen color
- Hamburger menu navigation
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Version 2 update: * Navigation among pages is done by the hamburger menu. * The screen color can be modified and personalized. * Individual bell schedules can be exported to Comma Separated Value (CSV) text format. Details: You can customize a bell schedule by adding or deleting class periods, modifying their start and end times, adding or deleting whole schedules, and modifying the names of the periods. School bell schedules can be imported from a Comma Separated Values text file located on the device or, for school-wide distribution of a set of schedules, from a Web site. The CSV file format is simple: - Quotation marks are optional. - A schedule record precedes the set of period records. - Period record format is periodname,start HH:MM,end HH:MM HH can be 24 hour or 12 hour; simply add AM or PM for 12 hour times. - Sample file: # Comment lines have leading hash mark # Next line is a schedule name (no colon or comma) Regular # These are period records name-of-period,HH:MM,HH:MM Home Room,7:55,8:05 1st Period,8:08,8:48 2nd Period,8:51,9:31 Break,9:31,9:41 3rd Period,9:44,10:24 4th Period,10:27,11:07 5th Period,11:10,11:50 Lunch,11:53,12:33PM 6th Period,12:36,13:16 7th Period,1:19PM,1:59PM 8th Period,14:02,14:42 Office Time,2:42p,15:15 # Next schedule A.M. Assembly Home Room,7:55,8:03 Assembly,8:05,9:15 1st Period,9:18,9:51 # And so on.....
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: APSO at 5.0 against BellsClock's 4.2. APSO also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). BellsClock's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (5 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.
APSO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BellsClock has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
APSO ships an update every 38 months, BellsClock every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on June 24, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | APSO | BellsClock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 38 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office | Francis Golazeski |
Customer experience
APSO
BellsClock
In-app purchases
APSO
No in-app purchases
BellsClock
No in-app purchases









