GatePass vs UnivTrack

GatePass is a school gate attendance and parent-notification system for managing student entry and related school routines. A QR scan confirms a student’s entry, records attendance, and notifies a parent in under two seconds. If the network drops, scanning continues; scan times are retained and parent notifications wait until reconnection. The system also supports registers, emergency roll-call, trips, boarding, visitor management, and fees. Visitors can pre-book, check in by QR at the gate, notify their host, and receive a digital pass. Parents, staff, gatekeepers, and visitors use the same app, while admins and headteachers manage the school in a web dashboard. GatePass says schools can begin with an existing phone and printed QR cards, without a server or special hardware. All plans include unlimited scans, QR ID cards, reports, visitor management, audit trail, API access, and priority support. A full-featured free trial covers one full term at zero cost, with no card or commitment. Paid term plans start at 150,000 UGX, paid once for up to 499 students. The download page lists Android and iOS versions as coming soon.

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.