EduAttendance vs UnivTrack

EduAttendance is school attendance software built in Pakistan for schools using English or Urdu. It records daily roll calls, period registers, and gate check-ins and check-outs, with attendance settings configurable by section. Schools can use ZKTeco fingerprint, card, and face terminals to send live punches, and notify guardians by WhatsApp or SMS in either language, once per child per day per channel. Reports cover monthly sheets, class summaries, absentee and below-threshold lists, and register audits. A free Android app for parents and teachers comes with every plan; parents see only their own children’s records, and teachers see their sections. The PHP and MySQL system runs on EduAttendance’s cloud or a school’s server. Schools can import student lists from CSV, with rows previewed and checked before saving. A one-month trial includes the full system, student import, and the school’s WhatsApp number connected. Pricing is on request; SMS and WhatsApp gateway charges and optional readers are billed separately at cost.

UnivTrack is a free, open-source attendance tracker for college and high-school students. It records attendance by course and shows live absence counts, highlighting courses that are nearing or over their limits. Users can create unlimited academic terms, choose custom names and start dates, and set each term to last from 5 to 18 weeks. Weekday schedules can include up to five morning and five afternoon course slots. For each class, users can mark Attended, Absent, or Holiday / No Class; long-press actions can update previous weeks in bulk. A term becomes read-only after its final week has passed. UnivTrack is an installable progressive web app with an offline app shell, home-screen icon, and full-screen mode. It runs on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux, and includes English and Turkish translations with automatic browser-language detection. It uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore, with user data stored in the user's own Firebase project. Self-hosting requires configuring that project. The project says it has no third-party ads or tracking.