AdminPlus SIS vs FACTS Staff App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AdminPlus SIS
Manage student information, attendance, grades, and discipline records on the go. Communicate with students, staff, and parents through integrated messaging and notification features. Access demographic data and schedules for efficient school administration.
- Student and staff directory
- Attendance tracking (absent/tardy)
- Discipline incident reporting
- Student schedule viewing
- Grade and GPA assessment
- Mass communication via AP Notify
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Easily search and scroll through all students, staff, and contacts to quickly call, text, or email. Users can easily switch between schools within the app. Access student demographic fields such as allergy information and locker combinations. See when a student is absent or tardy. Know what class a student is supposed to be in at any given time. Assess how a student is performing in school by viewing his or her grades. Enter new discipline incidents. Use AP Notify features to reach contacts via email, text, and voice message. Student Demographics: Choose any of the AdminPlus database fields to view in the AdminPlus Mobile App, including contact database fields and alert fields. Filter and scroll through all students, staff, and contacts to quickly call, email, or text. Attendance: See when a student is absent or tardy. View summary totals and the list of events. Discipline & Incident Reporting: View previous infraction details and add new incidents while at the scene. The penalty summary shows only the “penalty” with a total for Served or Outstanding for the date range, followed by a list of incidents. Student Schedules: Know what class a student is scheduled to be in at any time. Display block names, times, and teacher name. An important security feature, the mobile app highlights the class the student should be in during the current period. Use settings to choose rotation and section terms. Grades and GPAs: Assess how a student is performing by viewing their grades. See grades, skills, and GPAs. Selected marking period grades, course name, teacher and comments are displayed. Selecting a class will display additional marking period grades. Notifications with AP Notify: AP Notify features are now included in the AdminPlus mobile app. Quickly notify thousands of contacts within your school community via email, text, and voice message, without having to import data. Note: requires AP Notify as part of the AdminPlus SIS. NOTE: You must have the PlusPortals installed to use this app in conjunction with AdminPlus. Please contact Rediker Software at 800-213-9860 to add PlusPortals and enhance your current AP products. Requires version iOS 13.0 or higher.
FACTS Staff App
Streamline classroom attendance for educators. Quickly mark students present or absent, adjust for tardiness, and add notes for the office. Review and correct past records securely with single sign-on and automatic locking.
- Daily schedule overview
- One-tap attendance marking
- Customizable attendance codes
- Add notes to records
- Review and correct past attendance
- Secure single sign-on
- Automatic inactivity lock
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FACTS Staff puts classroom attendance in the palm of your hand. Designed for teachers and school staff, this app lets you take attendance quickly and accurately right from your mobile device. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE • See your full teaching schedule for the day, with each period marked as finished, in session, or still ahead • Jump straight into the class you're teaching right now from a single tap on the home screen • Check enrollment counts, room, and period details before you walk in TAKE ATTENDANCE IN SECONDS • Mark every student present with one tap, then adjust only the exceptions • Tap a student to choose from your school's own attendance codes — present, tardy, absent, excused, and any others your district defines • Tap a code again to clear it if you make a mistake • Select multiple students and apply the same code to all of them at once • Every change saves automatically as you go — no submit button, and nothing to lose if you get interrupted NOTES THAT REACH THE OFFICE • Add a note to any attendance record to explain a tardy or an absence • Review all of a class's notes together in one list REVIEW AND CORRECT PAST DAYS • Look back at attendance you've already taken • Amend earlier records within the window your district allows • Records already set by the front office are shown clearly and left untouched SECURE BY DESIGN • Sign in with your existing school account through your district's single sign-on • Optional Face ID or Touch ID to unlock the app • Automatically locks itself after a period of inactivity, so a roster is never left open on an unattended device BUILT FOR HOW YOU WORK • Full support for iPhone and iPad, including split-screen multitasking • Light and dark appearance • Works with Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and other iOS accessibility features • Clear indicators when you're offline or when data may be out of date, so you always know what you're looking at
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AdminPlus SIS at 100% against FACTS Staff App's 33%. AdminPlus SIS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). FACTS Staff App's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
AdminPlus SIS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of AdminPlus SIS's written reviews are positive against 33% of FACTS Staff App's.
AdminPlus SIS ships an update every 3 months, FACTS Staff App weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AdminPlus SIS | FACTS Staff App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better | 3.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rediker Software, Inc. | Facts Management Company |
Customer experience
AdminPlus SIS
FACTS Staff App
In-app purchases
AdminPlus SIS
No in-app purchases
FACTS Staff App
No in-app purchases
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