# Australian School Holidays — user reviews > 75 indexed App Store user reviews of Australian School Holidays by Purple Development, rated 5.00/5 from 1 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/australian-school-holidays/id979479932/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/australian-school-holidays/id979479932.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## What do users think of Australian School Holidays? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 👍 Helpful for planning - 👍 Imports to calendar - 👍 Covers all states - 👍 Lifetime purchase - 👍 Free downloads - 👍 Accurate dates - 👍 Good for avoiding peak times - 👍 Useful for parents/grandparents - 👍 Avoids school holidays for travel - 👍 Reminds about school zones **Cons** - 🐛 Only one state at a time - 🐛 Replaces previous state calendar - 🐛 Incomplete/patchy downloads - 🐛 Missing dates for some states - 🐛 Google calendar import issues - 🐛 Not showing in calendar - 🐛 Some states not downloading - 🐛 QLD terms not in Outlook - 🐛 Doesn't work for some users - 🐛 Calendar titles lack state info **Commonly reported bugs** - Google calendar import doesn't work - Dates not showing up in calendar - Incomplete downloads for some states - Only one state imports at a time, replacing previous - QLD terms not importing to Outlook - App doesn't work for some users **Most requested features** - Import all states at once - Add state name to calendar title - Different color for each state's calendar - Include 1st & last day of school terms - Include teacher development days ## Newest reviews (16 of 75) ### 5/5 — Excellent *2025-06-30, version 2.2* Access to school holidays throughout Australia is valuable for holiday planning ### 5/5 — Good resource *2025-04-21, version 2.0* Good convenient info. Thanks 🤗 ### 5/5 — Very Helpful for Parents *2025-04-20, version 2.2* Very Helpful for Parents ### 5/5 — Mighty helpful. *2025-04-12, version 2.2* Mighty helpful for reminding me as a frequent driver driving past a school area for when I should slow down if not just for getting a fine but also for the safety of kids around. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Great to know *2025-04-10* Useful information, allows us to see when the roads are going to be hideous or not ### 5/5 — Great work guys *2025-04-05, version 2.2* Thank you for supplying us with free downloads. ### 5/5 — Stay home during school holidays *2025-03-07, version 2.2* Exactly what I wanted ### 4/5 — Not Bad *2025-01-30, version 2.2* Very good for the sch vac’s for all states… ### 5/5 — Chris *2025-01-30, version 2.2* Great app, worked a treat! ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2025-01-27, version 2.2* Australian School holidays added to your calendar with ease. ### 5/5 — A *2024-10-18, version 2.1* Really good ### 5/5 — Rhette *2024-08-26, version 2.1* Great app ### 5/5 — good *2024-08-15, version 2.1* works well ### 5/5 — at a glance *2024-04-11, version 2.1* works for me very well. ### 5/5 — Australian School Holidays *2024-03-28* Very Handy and Essential for any parent or person working with children. ### 5/5 — Invaluable app when planning trips within and out of state. *2024-03-18, version 2.1* As campers who try to avoid school holidays , this app helps greatly with our planning. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — School Hols *2025-03-30, version 2.2* I have been using this for many years and as I don't have school age kids but I do have grandkids it's very helpful knowing when holiday are coming up. I highly recommend this calendar ### 1/5 — Google calendar doesnt work *2025-02-05, version 2.2* Hi, how do I import to my google calendar? It is telling me it has already imported to my apple calendar, but I only use my google calendar. Thanks! ### 1/5 — Only shows school holidays for one state *2024-03-15, version 2.1* Australian school holidays Only shows school holidays for one state at a time. If I turn on (a second) calendar for another state it replaces the previous one. So pretty useless for Australia. I need to show holidays for multiple australian states at the same time. (An add “all states” would also be convenient) ### 1/5 — It doesn’t work. *2022-01-12, version 1.9* It did not work. ### 1/5 — Sandee *2019-02-10* Useless... I bought this to put the QLD terms into my outlook where I have my entire schedule and appointments but it's using another states holidays irrelevant to us here. I tried to add this calendar in for Queensland but it seems I spent money for this app and you can't so big waste so disappointing (can't use with outlook Dont bother buying). ### 2/5 — Incomplete & Currently very patchy downloads *2025-01-18, version 2.1* The dates are not all there for this year 2025. Tasmania not at all. SA & ACT missing 4th term. NT dates. But only some states will download to my phone, - QLD, NT, Tas, WA all missing -despite the notification saying it has happened for each of them. Needs a ‘download all’ button that works, please. ### 3/5 — Australian school holidays *2025-01-22, version 2.1* It’s not showing up in my calendar ### 3/5 — None *2024-01-29, version 2.1* None ### 3/5 — Good *2021-06-11, version 1.8* Good ### 3/5 — It would be good if each state came in to colander with different colour *2021-02-22, version 1.8* It would be good if each state came in to slander with different colour ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Mighty helpful. *2026-04-07* Mighty helpful for reminding me as a frequent driver driving past a school area for when I should slow down if not just for getting a fine but also for the safety of kids around. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Chris *2026-03-31, version 2.3* Great app, worked a treat! ### 5/5 — Perfect *2026-03-14* Does exactly what I want and provides the information I need. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-01-31* Booking holidays is easier knowing when school holidays are. Well done ### 5/5 — NSW School Holidays *2026-01-29, version 2.3* So very helpful ### 5/5 — So Good - Hidden Feature under the Notification Bell. *2025-09-15* This hidden feature made all the difference. At the start I wasn’t so impressed. Bringing in each state only to lose it when I brought in the next one. But then I found I can easily import all states into my calendar, by clicking on the notification bell and turning on “Import As New Calendar”, now I love it. What this does is allow you to easily import each State you want into your Calendar, so you can see all states at a glance, then you can turn the calendars on or off as you please. Just what I was looking for. So helpful for planning and travelling around Australia. Have them all on, or just the ones you want. The other thing to like is it is not a subscription based app but instead, a reasonably priced lifetime purchase. Thanks for a great app. ### 5/5 — Rhette *2025-09-09, version 2.2* Great app ### 5/5 — School holidays *2025-08-31, version 2.2* Excellent very helpful ### 5/5 — Invaluable app when planning trips within and out of state. *2025-08-30* As campers who try to avoid school holidays , this app helps greatly with our planning. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2025-08-19, version 2.2* Does exactly what I want and provides the information I need. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-12.*