MyPaymentsPlus vs Ref Marty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyPaymentsPlus
Manage your child's school cafeteria account easily. View balances, deposit funds securely, and track purchases. Receive low balance alerts to ensure funds are always available.
- View student cafeteria balances
- Securely deposit funds
- Low balance notifications
- View payment history
- Monitor item purchases
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MyPaymentsPlus, powered by Horizon Software International, brings parents and guardians 24/7 access to manage cafeteria accounts for students at participating schools. · View current cafeteria account balances for all of your students · Securely deposit funds into the account(s) of your choice · Enable notifications for low balances · View payment history for your account · Monitor which items are being purchased in the school cafeteria
Ref Marty
This tool helps parents and educators communicate behavior expectations to children using a visual card system. It offers positive reinforcement, gentle warnings, and customizable consequences with a simple, distraction-free interface. The app works offline and requires no accounts, ads, or subscriptions.
- Color-coded behavior cards
- Positive reinforcement
- Gentle warnings
- Customizable consequences
- Visual countdown timer
- Offline functionality
- Distraction-free interface
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Ref Marty helps parents, teachers, coaches, and caregivers communicate behavior expectations using a familiar color card system. Inspired by the cards used in sports, Ref Marty provides a calm, consistent visual way to guide children through expectations and consequences. Features • Green Card – Positive reinforcement and encouragement • Yellow Card – Gentle warning and reminder • Blue Card – Customizable reset timer with visual countdown • Red Card – Personalized consequence message • Adjustable hold duration to prevent accidental activation • Custom timeout lengths • Haptic feedback support • Simple, distraction-free interface • Works completely offline Ref Marty is intentionally simple. No accounts. No ads. No subscriptions. Just a straightforward tool to help make communication clear and consistent.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ref Marty at 100% against MyPaymentsPlus's 11%. Ref Marty also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). MyPaymentsPlus's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1) and device support (3 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.
Ref Marty holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyPaymentsPlus has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of MyPaymentsPlus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ref Marty's.
| Parameter | MyPaymentsPlus | Ref Marty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (22 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Horizon Software International | JAMEY CICALESE |
Customer experience
MyPaymentsPlus
Ref Marty
In-app purchases
MyPaymentsPlus
No in-app purchases
Ref Marty
No in-app purchases
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