iHW vs SchoolPass
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.
SchoolPass
This K-12 platform streamlines campus management for schools, handling student arrivals, departures, and attendance. It modernizes visitor and staff screening, ensuring accurate accountability for everyone on campus, especially during emergencies.
- Campus movement management
- Attendance tracking
- Campus wellness screening
- Visitor and staff management
- Emergency preparedness
- Cloud-based platform
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SchoolPass is a K-12 platform that helps schools manage campus movement, attendance, and campus wellness, in the cloud. Schools can consolidate and modernize the arrival, screening, and departure of students, visitors, and staff in one place, while enabling staff to more quickly and accurately account for everyone on campus throughout the school day, especially during an emergency. Please note that you must have an SchoolPass account with a participating school in order to use this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iHW at 70% against SchoolPass's 20%. SchoolPass's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 27). 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.
SchoolPass holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolPass has 4.9K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of iHW's written reviews are positive against 20% of SchoolPass'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, SchoolPass monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iHW | SchoolPass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) | 4.7 (4.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 19.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 4.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — 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 | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harvard-Westlake School | Raptor Technologies, LLC |
Customer experience
iHW
SchoolPass
Bugs and requests
iHW
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SchoolPass
Reported bugs
5 issues- App freezes or crashes on launch
- Login credentials not working
- Calendar functionality not working
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between students
- Profile photos and phone numbers not saving
Requested features
5 requests- Single login for multiple children across schools
- Automatic password saving and facial recognition
- Ability to edit driver/contact information
- Customizable UI for schools
- CarPlay integration
In-app purchases
iHW
No in-app purchases
SchoolPass
No in-app purchases
