# NSE PTO — School News for NSE parents

> School News for NSE parents (iPhone/iPad app by Threefold Studio.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/nse-pto/id6816827500 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Threefold Studio](https://appshunter.io/developer/6816827502)
- Category: Education, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 26 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-12
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is NSE PTO?

Everything happening at North Smyrna Elementary, in one place, so parents stop piecing it together from folder papers, group chats and half remembered dates.

WHY THE APP AND NOT JUST THE WEBSITE

The website tells you what is happening when you go looking. The app tells you when something happens, on the one morning you did not think to look.

URGENT ALERTS ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN
Closures, early dismissals and safety news arrive as a push notification, so you hear it before you leave the house. This only exists in the app.

TEXT ALERTS, SEPARATELY
Urgent news can also reach you by text message, which is a different channel from notifications and survives a phone with notifications switched off. The app is the only place to turn text alerts on.

REMIND ME ABOUT THIS ONE
Open any event and set your own reminder, the day before or the morning of. Picture Day, the field trip form, the PTO meeting you keep meaning to attend.

THE SCHOOL CALENDAR IN YOUR OWN CALENDAR
Every date for the year: closures, breaks, Picture Day, conferences and PTO events. Tap Subscribe once and it lands in the calendar app you already use, and it keeps itself up to date as the PTO adds things.

IT WORKS WHEN YOUR SIGNAL DOES NOT
The app keeps the last thing it knew, so you can check the calendar in a school hallway or a parking lot with one bar, and it tells you plainly when it could not refresh rather than showing you nothing.

ONLY THE GRADES YOU CARE ABOUT
Follow the grades your children are in and the feed narrows to them. Nothing about your child is stored. It is a preference you set, and you can change it whenever you like.

WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY READ
The app tracks what is new since you last looked, so you are not scanning the same eight messages every time.

VOLUNTEERING
See what the PTO needs, sign up for a shift in two taps, and keep track of what you said yes to.

A WAY TO BE HEARD
The Suggest tab sends an idea, an offer to help, or something we could do better, straight to the PTO board. Nobody else sees it.

HAVE A LOOK BEFORE YOU SIGN IN

The feed and the calendar are open to anyone. An account unlocks the parts that are yours: alerts on this phone, text alerts, the grades you follow, your calendar subscription, and volunteer sign ups.

BUILT FOR PARENTS, RUN BY VOLUNTEERS

The PTO is a handful of parents doing this in their own time. There are no ads, nothing is sold, and no information about any child is collected. You can delete your account and everything in it from the Settings screen at any time.

Built by Threefold Studio.

## Is NSE PTO safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess NSE PTO.

## Is NSE PTO legit?

NSE PTO has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NSE PTO is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.4.0 — 2026-10-20

Add your PTO card to Apple Wallet from the PTO card screen.
Tap the Sunday weekly digest to see all of the coming week's events on one page.
Bug fixes and improvements.

### 1.3.1 — 2026-10-18

WHAT IS NEW IN 1.3.1
Sign in with the demo account below.
1. Home, QR icon: the parent's PTO card for check-in at PTO events and the raffle table, with badges for taking part (no cash value, not prizes).
2. Settings: tap the name for the new Profile page.
3. Calendar tab: Subscribe card at the top.
4. Control Panel: Drafts, Check-in (scan a PTO card), Raffle (a new raffle is a draft parents never see), Volunteers (add a helper by hand). Raffle rules are under the entry form at nsepto.com/raffle or via the raffle's entry QR code.

PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE
NSE PTO is the official app of the Parent Teacher Organization of North Smyrna Elementary, a public elementary school in Smyrna, Delaware, run by volunteer parents. It is for parents and guardians of the school's students: announcements, urgent alerts by push and optional text message, the school calendar with reminders and a calendar subscription, volunteer sign ups, and a private suggestion box and Inbox with the PTO board. Parents can follow only their children's grades. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases, and no information about children is collected.

Calendar access: Subscribe adds the school's events to an NSE PTO calendar on the phone. iOS asks once; it is used only to add and update the school's events.

Photo library and camera: used only by PTO officers, to add a flyer or picture to a calendar event, and by PTO officers and members to scan a parent's PTO card at check-in and the raffle table. Parents are never asked.

Text alerts are for urgent school news only, are off by default, can only be switched on in the app beside the carrier approved consent language, and STOP works on any message.

SETUP AND ACCESS
No account is needed to review the app; the feed and calendar are readable signed out.
Demo account:
Email: review@nsepto.com
Password: dce7kfd-EDR-cfv0gwa
The demo inbox is live for sign in codes: sign in at Zoho.com with the same email and password karjAx-rogjac-9syqzu
This account has PTO officer access, so it also shows the Control Panel (shield icon). Ordinary parent accounts do not.
New users can sign up with email and password, Sign in with Apple, or Google sign in.
Account deletion: Settings, then Delete my account. Immediate and permanent.

MESSAGES AND USER CONTENT
Suggestions go privately to the PTO board, like a contact form. If the parent includes their name, the board can reply in that parent's Inbox and the parent can answer: a private conversation between one parent and the PTO board only. Parents cannot message other parents, and nothing a parent writes is shown to any other parent. There is no feed, profile or comment section, so there is no public content to report or block. Officers can remove a message, which also closes its conversation. Parents can send a suggestion without their name, in which case no reply is possible.

PAYMENTS
None: no in-app purchases, subscriptions, paywall or sales. The PTO's occasional fundraising auction for donated physical items runs on the PTO's website, not in the app. Home shows a link to it only while an auction is running.
Raffles are held in person by the PTO. The app only records an entrant's name and contact for the winner; tickets are paid in cash at the PTO table, never in the app. 18 or older. The in-app rules say Apple and Google are not sponsors or involved.

EXTERNAL SERVICES
Supabase (database, accounts, server functions, picture storage); Sign in with Apple and Google Sign-In; Apple Push Notification service via Firebase Cloud Messaging; Twilio (opt-in text alerts); Brevo (account emails); Netlify (hosts nsepto.com). No payment processors and no AI services.

REGIONAL DIFFERENCES
None. The content is about one school in the United States.

REGULATED INDUSTRY OR THIRD PARTY MATERIAL
Not applicable. All content is written by the PTO's volunteer officers.

### 1.2.3 — 2026-10-15

New in 1.2.3:
- Inbox: the envelope at the top of the app. When you send the PTO a message with your name on it, their replies come here and you can write back.
- Events can now have a picture, like the event flyer. Tap it to see it full size.
- Turn on reminders for a whole type of event, like every No School day or every PTO meeting (Settings > Reminders for whole categories).
- PTO meetings now have their own type, so you can follow just those.
- Signed up to volunteer? You get a reminder at 6pm the evening before your shift. Turn it on or off on each shift, and tap a shift to open its event.
- New weekly digest: one notification on Sunday evening with the week ahead. Turn it on in Settings.
- Share any event with a link. Opening a shared link now takes you back to the calendar.
- The app now tells you when a new version is ready.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-13

New in this version:
- Search the calendar for any event by name, place or description.
- Filter the calendar by event type and by grade.
- New Community event type for town and district events.
- Fixes and improvements for PTO officers.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-12

No release notes.

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