Comparison

Square vs PoolPass

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Square

Monitor your business performance, finances, and team from anywhere in real time. Track sales, manage cash flow, and update schedules with this powerful analytics tool.

Highlights
  • Real-time business monitoring
  • Sales and performance tracking
  • Financial management
  • Team scheduling and payroll
  • Customer management
  • In-app notifications
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Have peace of mind with the new Square Dashboard app. Get a unified look at your business and manage essential tasks from anywhere in real time. Track business performance, monitor your finances, manage your team, and connect with your customers, all while you’re on the go. Stay on top of your business. Get alerts with in-app notifications. Track your business with multilocation reporting and sales reports. Plus, get data on your top sellers and performers. Understand and control your cash flow. Integrate your sales and spend reports, automate your budgeting, pay your bills, and manage your linked credit cards. Maintain smooth operations with team management tools. Make updates to schedules, view and edit timecards, and run payroll all in real time.

About

PoolPass

Manage members and streamline front desk check-ins for pools and clubs. Automate traditional paper passes and logbooks by scanning barcodes or searching by name. Visualize facility usage and member data with insightful charts.

Highlights
  • Member management
  • Front desk check-in
  • Barcode/QR code scanning
  • Guest usage tracking
  • Membership suspension
  • Data visualization charts
  • Email members
Features
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PoolPass is a member management and front desk check-in solution for community swimming pools and other facilities. Choose the standalone version to manage all data on your iPad or iPhone, no internet needed. Or connect to your PoolPass cloud account from multiple devices. If you're managing a membership-based swimming pool, gym, club, or other organization, PoolPass provides a solution for keeping track of your members, checking them in at the front desk, and monitoring facility usage. PoolPass helps you automate the traditional paper passes, manual member lookup, and log books. Scan barcodes or QR codes at check-in from your device's camera or a wireless bluetooth barcode scanner. Or search by name to check-in members without membership cards. You can check-in and keep track of guest usage as well. With PoolPass you can suspend memberships or members not in good standing, set expiration dates, limit the number of entries by member, email members, view member data in a spreadsheet format, and search for members or member data. PoolPass also provides several charts to help you visualize your data. Track member and guest check-ins by day or hour, check membership counts over time, check current facility occupancy, and see who is checking in most often. The PoolPass iOS app is completely free to use with your PoolPass cloud account. For standalone use, you can manage up to 50 members free. You can upgrade the number of members you can manage with In-App purchases.

Screenshots

Square4 screens
PoolPass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Square at none against PoolPass's 6. Square also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (3.4K vs 5). PoolPass's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.1). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PoolPass sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Square asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Square against 4.8 for PoolPass. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square has 3.4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Square ships an update weekly, PoolPass every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Square versus PoolPass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquarePoolPass
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.4K ratings)4.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews25.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.4K — better5
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size319 MB29 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBlock, Inc.Kevinnovate, LLC

Customer experience

Square

All ratings3,443 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews217 reviews
Positive25.3%
Neutral11.1%
Negative63.6%

PoolPass

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Square

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes after updates
  • Login issues after updates
  • Widget stopped working after updates
  • Freezing and not loading data

Requested features

8 requests
  • Make 52 weeks the default comparison
  • Add iPad version
  • Projections and estimated future income
  • Ability to control what clients see
  • Sound notifications for orders
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  • More detailed reporting and breakdowns
  • iPhone X support
  • Ability to track net sales instead of just gross

PoolPass

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Square

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

PoolPass

One-time6
  • 100 Members$19.99
  • 500 Members$79.99
  • Increase By 1200$79.99
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  • 1000 Members$129.99
  • 2000 Members$199.99
  • Unlimited Members$249.99

Questions

Is Square free?
Square is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PoolPass free?
PoolPass is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Square or PoolPass?
Square and PoolPass are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3.4K and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Square or PoolPass have ads?
Neither Square nor PoolPass shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Square or PoolPass?
Square ships an update weekly, and PoolPass every 2 months. Most recently, Square was updated on October 17, 2026 and PoolPass on September 26, 2026.

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