Comparison

School Bus Home vs HoleCopy

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

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School Bus Home

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School Bus Home is for working parents whose kids get home from school before they do. Pick your entry cameras or video doorbell (up to four), set an after-school window and an "expected by" time on school days, and get a calm alert when a school bus is detected. Turn on the optional morning window and you also get a note when a school bus is seen in the morning. WHAT YOU GET โ€ข School-bus detection โ€” on motion or a doorbell press inside your window, the app checks up to three still images from your camera for a US yellow school bus โ€ข The proof โ€” the one snapshot that confirmed the bus is kept for 31 days; open it from Today or History โ€ข No-bus heads-up โ€” one gentle, amber note if no school bus has been detected by your expected-by time (after school only) โ€ข Late update โ€” one follow-up if the bus is confirmed after the heads-up โ€ข Optional morning window โ€” off until you switch it on: one "School bus seen this morning" note with the time, and nothing else โ€ข Today, a 31-day History, Schedule, Alerts and Account, the same as on the web dashboard โ€ข Skip today and Pause for half days and school breaks โ€ข Send test alert โ€” check delivery any time HONEST BY DESIGN Detection is best-effort: a bus can stop out of camera view, and a snapshot is not always available. An alert reflects what your camera captured; neither an alert nor its absence confirms anyone's whereabouts. School Bus Home is an arrival-awareness convenience, not a childcare, supervision, security, or life-safety service. PRIVACY BY DESIGN Your camera is checked only inside the windows you set, and only as still images โ€” never video, clips or live view. Each image answers one question: is a US yellow school bus visible? The check runs on GPU servers we own and operate in the United Arab Emirates, reached through a reverse proxy hosted for us in Germany that keeps nothing; if our servers are unreachable, the same question goes to Anthropic Claude via Amazon Bedrock. Images without a school bus are discarded at once. The one that confirms a bus is kept for 31 days, private to your account, and deleted with it. The app never identifies people, and nothing is used to train AI models. HOW IT WORKS Link your account in seconds with a passwordless email code, choose your entry cameras and confirm your window โ€” about two minutes. Requires a Ring account with at least one camera or video doorbell in the United States, with cloud recording active on the entry camera. Alerts arrive by email and push. School Bus Home is an independent app. Ring is a trademark of Ring LLC; School Bus Home is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Ring LLC or Amazon.com, Inc. Support: info@erbacciltd.com

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HoleCopy

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Replacing a bracket, a hinge or a speaker plate? The holes are the hard part. Measuring them one by one with a ruler stacks up error until the last hole is off. HoleCopy copies the pattern instead of measuring it: lay the old part on the reference sheet, take one photo, and get every hole center and diameter in real millimetres. HOW IT WORKS 1. Print the A4 or US Letter reference sheet at 100% 2. Lay the old part on the sheet and take one photo 3. HoleCopy squares up the perspective and detects round through-holes 4. Check the result on screen: move a center, resize a hole, add one the camera missed, delete one it invented 5. Export a true 1:1 PDF or SVG, tape it to the new material and drill WHAT YOU CAN DO BEFORE EXPORTING Photographing the part, perspective correction, hole detection, editing and the output preview all work with any part you try. You can see whether HoleCopy reads your part correctly before you export anything. WHAT UNLOCKING EXPORT ADDS Saving, sharing and AirPrinting the actual-size PDF or SVG, as often as you like. That includes patterns larger than one sheet, split across pages with overlap marks and alignment crosses, ready to tape together. BUILT FOR THE WORKSHOP - Mirror the template for the back side of a part - SVG export for vector programs - A 100 mm and 1 inch check bar on every page, so you can confirm your printer did not scale it - Everything is processed on your device; photos never leave it WHO IT IS FOR Furniture repair, woodworking and metalwork DIY: brackets, hinges, handles, table legs, speaker cabinets, control panels, car or motorcycle mounts, gasket and flange hole patterns. BEFORE YOU DRILL HoleCopy works with flat parts and round through-holes of 3 mm and larger, when the part and the reference sheet fit in one photo. It is a positioning aid, not a guarantee of precision: check that the printed bar measures exactly 100 mm and drill a small pilot hole first when it matters. Not intended for safety-critical parts.

Screenshots

School Bus Home4 screens
HoleCopy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: School Bus Home at Free against HoleCopy's $1.99. School Bus Home also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

School Bus Home is free to download; HoleCopy costs $1.99 up front. HoleCopy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. School Bus Home asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Bus Home ships an update every 10 days, HoleCopy monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 2 level
School Bus Home versus HoleCopy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool Bus HomeHoleCopy
PriceFree โ€” better$1.99
Update frequencyEvery 10 days โ€” betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size26 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicola ErbacciNetflowers Inc.

In-app purchases

None

School Bus Home

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

HoleCopy

One-time1
  • Full Export Unlock$5.99

Questions

Is School Bus Home free?
School Bus Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HoleCopy free?
HoleCopy costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do School Bus Home or HoleCopy have ads?
Neither School Bus Home nor HoleCopy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Bus Home or HoleCopy?
School Bus Home ships an update every 10 days, and HoleCopy monthly. Most recently, School Bus Home was updated on November 5, 2026 and HoleCopy on October 31, 2026.

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