Katy ISD vs x2VOL_
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Katy ISD
Stay informed about your local school district and individual schools. Access news, directories, and receive personalized notifications. Get involved with district and school updates.
- District and school news
- District tip line
- Personalized notifications
- District directory
- Interest-based information
- Contact information management
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The official Katy ISD app gives you a personalized window into what is happening at the district and schools. Get the news and information that you care about and get involved. Anyone can: -View district and school news -Use the district tip line -Receive notifications from the district and schools -Access the district directory -Display information personalized to your interests Parents and students can: -View and add contact information
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.
- Customize service goals
- Centralize service hours
- Provide diverse service opportunities
- Track and report service hours
- Engage with nonprofits
- Generate Official Service Transcript™
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: x2VOL_ at 4.2 against Katy ISD's 2.7. x2VOL_ also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 90) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). Katy ISD's advantage is review sentiment (52% vs 15%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). 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.
x2VOL_ holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: x2VOL_ has 1.3K ratings behind it against 90, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Katy ISD's written reviews are positive against 15% of x2VOL_'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Katy ISD ships an update every 7 months, x2VOL_ every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Katy ISD | x2VOL_ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (90 ratings) | 4.2 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.3% of reviews — better | 15.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 90 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Katy ISD | IntelliVOL |
Customer experience
Katy ISD
x2VOL_
User reviews
Katy ISD
From 90 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Shows grades
- 👍 Shows lunch menu
- 👍 Shows bus route
- 👍 Can log into any account
- 👍 Can change profile picture
Room to improve
- 🐛 Grades load slowly
- 🐛 Grades don't update quickly
- 🐛 Grades disappear sometimes
- 🐛 App redirects to Safari for calendar
- 🐛 App freezes and closes
x2VOL_
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat 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
Katy ISD
Reported bugs
25 issues- App takes you to website
- App doesn't take you anywhere after sign-in
- Calendar redirects to Safari
- App freezes and closes
- Does not show all schools for setup
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- Grades load very slowly (2-3 days)
- Average score doesn't change when grades load
- Bus route finder not working
- Keeps logging out
- Zero support for issues
- No longer receiving alerts
- No place for password help
- Settings constantly disappearing
- Important parent information getting lost
- Frequent timeouts, requires re-login
- Kicking out of account, requires re-login
- Cannot find user ID
- Needs on-time class grade updates
- Needs to not require Wi-Fi to work
- Constantly have to sign back in
- Alerts are from last school year
- Alerts reappear after deletion
- MyPayments+ icon redirects to App Store
- No games available
- Information changing to someone else's
Requested features
3 requests- Add support for Apple Watch
- Integrate MealPay app instead of web page
- Add teacher comments/messages
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
Katy ISD
No in-app purchases
x2VOL_
No in-app purchases
