iHW vs Practice Pulse
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.
Practice Pulse
This app assists music educators in engaging students, fostering practice habits, and monitoring their development. It provides a centralized platform for managing student progress and motivation.
- Student engagement tools
- Practice motivation features
- Progress tracking
- Centralized platform
- Music education focus
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Practice Pulse helps music teachers engage every student, motivate practice, and track progress — all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Practice Pulse at 5.0 against iHW's 4.2. Practice Pulse also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). iHW's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Practice Pulse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iHW has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of iHW's written reviews are positive against 100% of Practice Pulse's.
iHW ships an update every 2 months, Practice Pulse every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iHW | Practice Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harvard-Westlake School | Viddi Labs LLC |
Customer experience
iHW
Practice Pulse
In-app purchases
iHW
No in-app purchases
Practice Pulse
No in-app purchases
