iHW vs V5RC Hub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iHW
This app helps manage school life by integrating schedules and assignments. It provides daily updates for classes, exams, and enrollment changes, with the ability to add personal notes to periods. It is designed for students, faculty, and staff.
- Integrated HW schedule and Hub
- Automatic schedule change detection
- Daily assignment/exam refresh
- View class schedule for any day
- Add notes to periods
- Supports Middle and Upper School
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iHW: Manage your Harvard-Westlake school life. • This is the new iHW that integrates your HW schedule and the Hub. • iHW knows when your enrollment or period schedule changes. • Hub assignments/exams refresh every morning and on demand from Settings. • View your class schedule for any day of the year. • Add notes to any period. • Works for Middle and Upper School for students, faculty, and staff. • Uses icons8.com (CC-BY-ND 3.0). This application is based on the original version of iHW which was inspired and created by Jonathan Burns '14 and Ethan Madison '15.
V5RC Hub
This app serves as a comprehensive companion for VEX V5 Robotics Competition participants. It provides easy access to the official game manual, a scoring calculator for practice, and a timer with official sounds for running matches.
- Searchable official game manual
- Intuitive scoring calculator
- Practice match timer
- Official game sounds
- Competition companion
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The V5RC Hub app is the ideal competition companion for teams, spectators, and event planners involved in the VEX V5 Robotics Competition! * Become an expert with a searchable, easy-to-use official game manual * Keep score at home with an intuitive calculator for the current game * Use the included timer to run your own practice matches (featuring official sounds!)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: V5RC Hub at 4.6 against iHW's 4.2. iHW's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 61%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
V5RC Hub holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 36 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of iHW's written reviews are positive against 61% of V5RC Hub's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iHW ships an update every 2 months, V5RC Hub every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iHW | V5RC Hub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) | 4.6 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 61.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harvard-Westlake School | VEX Robotics, Inc. |
Customer experience
iHW
V5RC Hub
In-app purchases
iHW
No in-app purchases
V5RC Hub
No in-app purchases
