Comparison

StudentPlus vs x2VOL_

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

StudentPlus

Access grades, scores, attendance, schedules, and homework on your mobile device. Stay updated with school announcements and alerts through a personalized calendar. This app fosters a stronger connection between students and their schools by providing essential academic information.

Highlights
  • Secure mobile access to grades and scores
  • View attendance and homework assignments
  • Access class schedules
  • Receive school announcements and alerts
  • Personalized combined calendar
Features
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StudentPlus gives each student secure, mobile access to their grades, scores, attendance, schedule, and homework. Students can easily view school announcements, alerts and a personalized, combined calendar. StudentPlus creates a stronger connection between the school and the student by sharing information that is critical for success and learning.

About

x2VOL_

This app streamlines service hour tracking for K-12 students, allowing customization of goals and centralization of hours. It connects students with nonprofits, verifies service records, and generates official transcripts for college and scholarship applications.

Highlights
  • Customize service goals
  • Centralize service hours
  • Provide diverse service opportunities
  • Track and report service hours
  • Engage with nonprofits
  • Generate Official Service Transcript™
Features
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x2VOL is the leading student service hour tracking app in K-12 education. With x2VOL you can customize service goals, centralize service hours, and provide diverse service opportunities. x2VOL provides students with an online and mobile way to track and report service hours specific to the goals of their school while engaging them with nonprofits. Service records are authenticated and verified for each student and can be attached to their college applications, scholarship applications, or resumes through x2VOL’s Official Service Transcript™. x2VOL is a 3-time Winner of the District Administration Top 100 Products; was a "Finalist" in the "Cool Tool Award" from the EdTech Digest Awards Program; recognized by eSchoolMedia as an Honorable Mention in the 2014-15 Readers’ Choice Awards; was a finalist in the 2015 REVERE Awards; and two years in a row, won Best Social-Emotional Development Solution in the SIIA CODiE Awards in 2017 and 2018.

Screenshots

StudentPlus4 screens
x2VOL_4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: x2VOL_ at 4.2 against StudentPlus's 1.7. StudentPlus's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

x2VOL_ holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 815 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 16% and 15% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

StudentPlus ships an update every 5 months, x2VOL_ every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
StudentPlus versus x2VOL_: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStudentPlusx2VOL_
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (815 ratings)4.2 (1.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.7% of reviews — better15.1% of reviews
Number of ratings8151.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRediker Software, Inc.IntelliVOL

Customer experience

StudentPlus

All ratings815 ratings
Positive16.8%
Neutral3.3%
Negative79.9%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative79.8%

x2VOL_

All ratings1,344 ratings
Positive78.2%
Neutral4.9%
Negative16.9%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive15.1%
Neutral9.4%
Negative75.5%

User reviews

StudentPlus

From 815 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Better than the New one
  • 🙂 Pretty good
  • 👍 VERY AWESOME!

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Not working
  • ⏱️ Slow as a snail
  • 🔑 Login Broken
  • 🤯 Ruined my life
  • 🤔 IT NEVER LOADS...

x2VOL_

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💯 Easiest way to track service hours
  • 🚀 Great app, makes it much easier and more convenient to request verification for service hours

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Terrible user interface, app is broken and doesn't work on iPad
  • 🐛 Completely broken, unable to log in
  • 🐛 Slow, not synced to website, needs an update but no updates available
  • 🐛 Trouble logging in, can't submit hours, keeps kicking user out of the app
  • 🐛 Doesn't work, can't submit hours, forces user to use the website instead

Bugs and requests

StudentPlus

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Please fix the bug where when you check your grades it is default set to second semester
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices
  • Request timed out every time I try to go on
  • School Name is Invalid

Requested features

4 requests
  • Please add a recent scores widget for iOS 14
  • Please fix the bug where when you check your grades it is default set to second semester
  • Should be able to save password so you don't need to keep typing it in when you click on the app
  • Can you put the calculation of my GPA somewhere? That would really help in terms of how much more I need to work and what needs to be done

x2VOL_

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Login issues, unable to log in even with correct credentials
  • App says it needs an update but no updates are available
  • Hours submitted disappear or don't sync properly
  • App forces user to go to website instead of working in the app

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add drafts to save hours before submitting
  • Allow users to change information about the company they did service with
  • Increase the number of hours that can be submitted at once

In-app purchases

None

StudentPlus

No in-app purchases

None

x2VOL_

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is StudentPlus free?
StudentPlus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is x2VOL_ free?
x2VOL_ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, StudentPlus or x2VOL_?
x2VOL_ is rated higher. StudentPlus averages 1.7 out of 5 from 815 ratings, while x2VOL_ averages 4.2 from 1.3K ratings.
Do StudentPlus or x2VOL_ have ads?
Neither StudentPlus nor x2VOL_ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, StudentPlus or x2VOL_?
StudentPlus ships an update every 5 months, and x2VOL_ every 3 months. Most recently, StudentPlus was updated on September 16, 2026 and x2VOL_ on September 23, 2026.

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