TapInPass — Centre Check-In
NFC check-in for centres
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
TapInPass turns your centre's attendance register into something you can actually show.
Every student gets a pass — an NFC fob or a tag on their folder. They hold it to the phone and the arrival is written the second it happens. On the way out, they tap again. No sign-in sheet, no handwriting, no reconstructing the afternoon from memory at closing time.
WHAT THE APP DOES
Kiosk — Set an iPhone at the front desk and start the tap loop. Students tap, the screen answers with a big full-screen confirmation and a distinct chime for arrivals and departures, then returns to ready for the next student. It runs unassisted straight through the after-school rush. On iPad, stand the Kiosk up as a dedicated check-in station: the front camera scans each student's QR check-in card, with the same full-screen confirmations and chimes as a tap.
The Room — The live "who's here now" board. Who has arrived, how long they have been in against their planned session, and who was expected but hasn't shown yet. Tap any student to check them in or out by hand, with a few seconds to undo.
Passes — Program the passes yourself. Write a pass, verify it by reading it straight back, then bind it to a student. Lost pass? Mark it lost and issue a replacement in under a minute. A pass can optionally be locked permanently.
Register — Today's visits with real arrival and departure times, ready to review or hand over. Full date-range exports live in the web admin.
BUILT PRIVACY-FIRST
• The pass carries a random tag ID and nothing else — no name, no personal information of any kind. A pass lost on the bus tells whoever finds it nothing.
• Students appear as a first name and a last initial. That is the whole name the system holds.
• Children have no accounts, no logins and nothing to sign up for. Staff manage everything.
• Product analytics use pseudonymous identifiers only, never names. There is no advertising, no tracking across apps or websites, and centre data is never sold.
WORKS WITH THE WEB ADMIN
TapInPass on iPhone is the counter-side companion to the tapinpass.com admin, which holds the roster, the weekly schedule, exports and settings. Same centre, same records, live in both.
WHAT YOU NEED
TapInPass requires an active centre account and TapInPass passes. Reading a pass uses the iPhone's built-in NFC, so it needs a physical device — iOS shows its own system scan sheet for each scan session. iPad has no NFC hardware, so centres on iPad check students in with the camera-based QR Kiosk instead. Signing in is required for the Room, Passes and Register tabs; the Kiosk tab keeps recording taps without anyone signed in.
Sign in with Apple, Google, or an email and password. You can delete your account, and the sign-in data attached to it, from Settings inside the app at any time.
TapInPass is an independent product of Gizmothings Inc. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any tutoring franchise or franchisor.
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TapInPass now runs natively on iPad.
Stand an iPad up as a dedicated check-in station: the Kiosk tab's new QR mode uses the front camera to scan each student's check-in card, with the same full-screen confirmations and chimes as an NFC tap. iPad has no NFC hardware, so QR is the check-in method there; iPhone is unchanged. Every screen — Room, Kiosk, Manage and Register — now lays out natively for iPad, in portrait and landscape.
The developer, TinyChef, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- IOK LABS INC
- Size
- 15.9 MB
- Category
- Business
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 IOK Labs Inc
