Heart Schools vs Slinger Connect
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.
Slinger Connect
Stay informed about your community with real-time alerts for road closures, weather, and local events. Access essential village resources quickly and easily.
- Real-time alerts
- Road closure notifications
- Weather alerts
- Event updates
- Access to village resources
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Wondering how to quickly and easily find out what's going on around Village of Slinger? Look no further than Slinger Connect to receive the latest alerts on road closures, weather alerts, events and so much more! In addition to notifications, you'll have easy access to commonly used resources from the Village!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Slinger Connect at 100% against Heart Schools's 74%. Slinger Connect also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Heart Schools's advantage is ratings volume (39K vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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.
Slinger Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Heart Schools has 39K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Heart Schools's written reviews are positive against 100% of Slinger Connect's.
Heart Schools ships an update every 2 months, Slinger Connect every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Heart Schools | Slinger Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (39K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Heart Association | GOGov, Inc. |
Customer experience
Heart Schools
Slinger Connect
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
Slinger Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Heart Schools
No in-app purchases
Slinger Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Heart Schools free?
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