HeadMaster vs MySchoolWorx
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HeadMaster
This app allows parents and students to access school-related information like homework, grades, and calendar events. It also provides functionality for parents to view billing details and make payments securely.
- Access homework assignments
- View grades
- Check calendar events
- Access billing information
- Make online payments
- View school announcements
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HeadMaster Mobile is a free and easy-to-use native app from ACS Technologies available for parents and students who use HeadMaster Online. With HeadMaster Mobile, parents and students can access homework, grades, and calendar events. Parents can also access their billing information and make payments. Features •Access school events, announcements, and homework assignments for each student. •View detailed balances and make online payments. Requirements •HeadMaster Online access.
MySchoolWorx
Stay connected with your school community. This app facilitates communication between administrators, teachers, parents, and students through messaging, alerts, and a shared calendar. Access assignments, events, and announcements directly from your mobile device.
- Messaging: compose, reply, archive, delete
- Custom alerts: read, delete, reply
- School calendar: view events, announcements, holidays, assignments
- Calendar filtering by event type
- Access to five message folders
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This app connects administrators, teacher, parents and students through messaging, alerts and your school's calendar. Compose new messages and reply to incoming messages, check your custom alerts and view assignments, events, announcements and school holidays all from your mobile device. Messaging - create & send new messages - read, reply to, archive and delete messages - mark messages read/unread - have access to the five folders already in MSW (Inbox, Draft, Sent, Trash, Archive) - broadcast capabilities - to come in future release Alerts - read & delete alerts - mark alerts read/unread - reply to message alerts Calendar - view events, announcements, holidays and assignments - filter to view only one of the calendar event types (example: view only Holidays or view only Assignments, etc.)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MySchoolWorx at 2.4 against HeadMaster's 1.5. MySchoolWorx also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 10 months) and review sentiment (18% vs 4%). HeadMaster's advantage is iOS requirement (6.1 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
MySchoolWorx holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 65 and 48 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 4% of HeadMaster's written reviews are positive against 18% of MySchoolWorx's.
HeadMaster ships an update every 10 months, MySchoolWorx every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HeadMaster | MySchoolWorx |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (65 ratings) | 2.4 (48 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.2% of reviews | 17.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ACS Technologies Group, Inc. | Digital Enhancements LLC |
Customer experience
HeadMaster
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In-app purchases
HeadMaster
No in-app purchases
MySchoolWorx
No in-app purchases
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