# Konstella — Konnect Parents

> Parent organization communication, fundraising, and community building platform. (iPhone/iPad app by Konstella Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/konstella/id960556868 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Konstella Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/967535902)
- Category: Social Networking, Education
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 609 App Store ratings · 71 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Filipino, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) and 1 more
- Released: 2015-02-18
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/konstella/id960556868/reviews.md

## What is Konstella?

Konstella streamlines communications and helps parent organizations (i.e. PTA & PTOs) build close-knit parent communities.  
- By allowing committee chairs and room parents to create short announcements, long newsletters, volunteer sign-up sheets, and events, Konstella streamlines communications and makes school and classroom needs transparent to parents.  
- By helping parent organizations and room parents collect fees and donations, Konstella makes fundraising easy for treasurers and fundraiser volunteers.
- By letting parents create interest-based Social Groups, such as Playdates for parents of young children and Hiking Parents for active parents, Konstella connects parents.  

This app is only useful if your school is running Konstella.

## Key features

- Create announcements and newsletters
- Manage volunteer sign-ups
- Organize events
- Collect fees and donations
- Form interest-based social groups

## What do users think of Konstella?

Overall sentiment: neutral

**Pros**

- 🚀 Helps stay connected and scheduling
- 👍 Gets the Job Done
- 🚀 GAME CHANGER— school comms FINALLY all in ONE PLACE!
- 👍 Wonderful to be connected
- 👍 Awesome
- 👍 Great to stay connected
- 👍 Revolutionized School Communication!
- 👍 Pretty good for me
- 👍 Excellent app for organizing school/parent communication
- 👍 Love it
- 👍 Excited for our 1st school year using Konstella
- 👍 Our school 💜 Konstella
- 👍 In a word, AMAZING!
- 👍 PTA President
- 👍 Such a helpful tool
- 👍 Exceptional app for school!
- 👍 Our school is finally organized!
- 👍 Parents united
- 👍 Great idea and useful
- 👍 Finally! Centralizes everything for the parents.
- 👍 Great tool!
- 👍 Great !!!
- 👍 A Quickly and Easy Way to Connect with Parents
- 👍 Great functionality and an elegant interface

**Cons**

- 🐛 Am I the only one whose kid moved schools?
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Not improving
- 🐛 Worse app ever
- 🐛 can't mark all notifications as read
- 🐛 Great potential, terrible user experience
- 🐛 The worst
- 🐛 Impossible make changes
- 🐛 Deleted messages or groups keep coming back
- 🐛 Buggy garbage with UX from Windows 95
- 🐛 App buggy and needs Dark Mode
- 🐛 It is not user friendly at all!
- 🐛 Has a lot of bugs
- 🐛 Always shut down
- 🐛 Krashing often
- 🐛 Crashes a lot!!!
- 🐛 Not getting half of the messages on time
- 🐛 Over notifications
- 🐛 Limited app and lags website
- 🐛 Not happy with my school selecting this app.
- 🐛 slow and glitchy
- 🐛 Would be fantastic if it worked
- 🐛 Clunky and impossibly slow
- 🐛 Least organized and User friendly App I've ever used
- 🐛 App is too buggy
- 🐛 Just ok
- 🐛 I hate Konstella!
- 🐛 Leaves much to be desired

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Can't delete an odd committee thread even after leaving the group
- No longer spell check and the bullets/numbers don't work
- Scrolling issues, can't select and copy text, can't bookmark or set aside important messages, can't open links from messages, impossible to organize messages and events
- Impossible to update my kids school, no way to contact Konstella, no way to remove the old profile and add a new one
- Group chat function issues - messages not loading, group disappearing and reappearing
- App contains features not available via the website; the website contains features not available on the app

**Most requested features**

- Dark mode option
- Messages need Like buttons
- Mute button to selectively mute members
- Ability to have dates hyperlinked to iPhone calendar

## Recent user reviews (10 of 71)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/konstella/id960556868/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Not a Good App

*2026-02-08, version 4.14.0*

Doesn’t listen to feedback to make the app better.

### 5/5 — Helps stay connected and scheduling

*2025-12-01*

Thai is such a great app for parents to stay ahead of all schedules in one place . Is we can have school schedules ( not just PTA) here it will be awesome ! Thanks for all the work on getting this to where it is . Has made life of busy working moms like me a lot better

### 1/5 — Am I the only one whose kid moved schools?

*2025-08-29, version 4.13.5*

It seems *literally* impossible to update my kids school. None of the directions online work. No way to contact Konstella. No way to remove the old profile and add a new one. I’m about to make a new email account just for this. I cannot be the only person whose kid moves schools?

### 2/5 — Buggy

*2025-08-15, version 4.13.5*

Can’t delete an odd committee thread even after leaving the group.

### 2/5 — Not improving

*2025-04-06*

I’ve been using this app for the last 8 years and it’s not improving. In fact it’s getting harder to use. They do not update very often but after this recent update, there’s no longer spell check and the bullets/numbers don’t work.

### 1/5 — Worse app ever

*2025-02-26, version 4.13.4*

Hard to navigate. Impossible to find things unless they are right on the announcement board. Each school posts and sets up things differently. What a 🤬 nightmare.
I would rather have things go back to paper than use this garbage.

### 1/5 — can't mark all notifications as read

*2025-02-10, version 4.13.4*

can't mark all notifications as read

### 4/5 — Gets the Job Done

*2025-02-06*

Our PTA has used this app for all family communication at a public school of 500 kids for the last 1.5 years. It takes some practice to get the hang of it but has really helped us with creating and sharing events and small groups within the school.

### 2/5 — Great potential, terrible user experience

*2024-10-09*

This could be a great communication platform, but falls a mile short from being usable. Scrolling issues, can’t select and copy text, can’t bookmark or set aside important messages, can’t open links from messages, impossible to organize messages and events

### 5/5 — GAME CHANGER— school comms FINALLY all in ONE PLACE!

*2024-06-28*

Our public elementary school (550 students) has used a multitude of channels for communications and it’s very confusing to know where to find the info if it’s not cross-posted. And it changes every year depending on the PTA members. 

This simplifies EVERYTHING so parents get all communications in one place— even if they don’t sign up (all parent emails are private and you’ll receive info regardless if you get the app or not—so it’s fully inclusive!)

No need anymore to search through Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Room Rep emails, Principal newsletters, etc. It seamlessly saves updates and offers parents to connect to other parents (again, without them seeing ANY contact information). Privacy is paramount and you can chat with classes/committees/direct messages, see events, get more involved, or just see who is point person to volunteer for any school opptys. 

Amazing features like setting up sign-up sheets, fundraising, PTA memberships, selling school merchandise, and more.

Our school is SO excited to have a very simple solution to finally reach all parents to create a more inclusive community that are now more easily informed and involved!

Thank you Konstella!

## Frequently asked questions about Konstella

### What does Konstella do?

Konstella is designed to streamline communication and foster community for parent organizations like PTAs and PTOs. It allows for the creation of various communication tools such as announcements, newsletters, volunteer sign-up sheets, and event postings, making school and classroom needs transparent to parents.

### What are the key features of Konstella?

Key features include the ability for committee chairs and room parents to create announcements and newsletters, manage volunteer sign-up sheets, and post events. It also facilitates fee and donation collection for fundraising and allows parents to create interest-based social groups to connect with each other.

### Is Konstella free to use?

Based on the provided information, the app is free to use. There are no mentions of subscription fees, in-app purchases, or advertisements, indicating a free monetization model.

### Who is the target audience for Konstella?

The app is specifically designed for parent organizations, such as PTAs and PTOs, and their members. It is only useful if your school is already running Konstella, implying a school-wide adoption is necessary for its functionality.

### How does Konstella help connect parents?

Konstella helps connect parents by allowing them to create and join interest-based Social Groups. Examples include groups for playdates for parents of young children or hiking groups for active parents, facilitating connections beyond school-related activities.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.15.23 — 2026-08-27

- improved directory loading
- fixed a bug for staff members joining rooms

### 4.15.22 — 2026-08-26

Show more descriptive messages when the user who requests to join a school is already at the school.

### 4.15.21 — 2026-08-17

- added support for one more deep link
- updated the default value of auto-translate to false
- fixed an animation error

### 4.15.20 — 2026-08-09

fixed a race condition for "save child"

### 4.15.19 — 2026-07-31

- A new warning message for adding events more than 30 days from now to the Feed.

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## More apps by Konstella Inc.

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All apps by Konstella Inc.: https://appshunter.io/developer/967535902

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