Heart Schools vs SchoolStore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Heart Schools
Manage your fundraising efforts for the American Heart Association's Schools program directly from your mobile device. Track progress, update your personal fundraising page, and communicate with supporters via email.
- Fundraising progress tracking
- Update fundraising page
- Send supporter emails
- Mobile event management
- Real-time progress updates
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Do your fundraising on the go with your American Heart Association's Schools app. The mobile app is a great tool to track your fundraising progress, update your page, and send emails. Please note: The American Heart Association's Schools app is only available to current registrants of the event. If you haven't registered yet for this years event, please go to https://www.heart.org/schools to register for an event near you.
SchoolStore
This app provides a safe and straightforward method for schools to generate funds and acquire necessary supplies for their educators. It aims to support educational institutions in their resource acquisition efforts.
- School fundraising
- Teacher supply acquisition
- Safe platform
- Simple to use
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A simple safe way for schools to earn money and get supplies for teachers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Heart Schools at 4.8 against SchoolStore's 3.7. Heart Schools also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (39K vs 3). SchoolStore's advantage is iOS requirement (14.2 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Heart Schools holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Heart Schools has 39K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Heart Schools's written reviews are positive against 75% of SchoolStore's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Heart Schools ships an update every 2 months, SchoolStore every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heart Schools | SchoolStore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (39K ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 273 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Heart Association | Reading For Education |
Customer experience
Heart Schools
SchoolStore
Bugs and requests
Heart Schools
Reported bugs
4 issues- Heart Hero scanner not working
- Points not accurately tracked or updated
- Arcade games not loading properly
- Donation submissions failing or not registering
Requested features
4 requests- Allow multiple children under one parent account
- Improve check deposit and donation tracking
- Add more games and interactive content
- Provide better instructions and tutorials
SchoolStore
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Heart Schools
No in-app purchases
SchoolStore
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Heart Schools free?
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