# Panoptic — Your School, in one app

> Your School, in one app (iPhone/iPad app by Tonbridge School.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panoptic/id6470829932 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Tonbridge School](https://appshunter.io/developer/1104991659)
- Category: Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 80 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-08
- Data updated: 2026-10-13
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/panoptic/id6470829932/reviews.md

## What is Panoptic?

Panoptic is the app your School runs on. It needs a School account: enter your School code, sign in, and the School day is in one place. If your School does not use Panoptic, there is nothing in here you can open.

WHAT YOU SEE DEPENDS ON WHO YOU ARE

One app, three experiences. Pupils, parents and staff sign in to the same app and each land on what matters to them. Your School decides what your account can reach, so there is nothing to set up and no wrong version to download.

FOR PUPILS AND PARENTS

- The week's timetable: every lesson, room, set and teacher, with the day you are in marked.
- School reports and assessments as the School published them.
- Attendance, day by day and session by session, with the rate alongside it.
- Exam candidate numbers when the School has issued them.
- Messages from the School, by email and as a notification on your phone.
- For parents, the same view of each of your children.

FOR STAFF

- Registers taken in a few taps, for your own lessons or for a colleague you are covering.
- School reports written in the shape your School designed, with the grade scales, the field lengths and the deadlines it set.
- The full pupil, staff and contact lists, with each person's record behind them: form, house, sets, teachers, attendance, relations and notes.
- Lesson cover, free periods and absence summaries.
- Messages to a year group, a house, a set or one family, from your School's own sending address.

SEARCH IS THE FRONT DOOR

One field finds any pupil, member of staff, contact or page in the app. It is on the home screen, it is a keystroke away everywhere else, and it is how most people use Panoptic.

IT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S APP

Panoptic wears your School's name, crest and colour, and your School's data lives in your School's own database. Sign in to more than one School on the same device, which staff who work at two and parents with children at two can both do, and switch between them without signing out.

MADE TO LIVE IN

- Light and dark, following your device or set here.
- More contrast, for when frosted panels are hard to read.
- Reduced motion, which also follows your device's own setting.
- English, French, Spanish and German.
- Built for VoiceOver and for a large text size.

Panoptic does not take payments and shows no advertising.

SUPPORT

Ask your School first: your account, your permissions and your data are theirs to manage. For anything else, the support link on this page reaches us.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 2026.10.3 — 2026-10-13

This update introduces Compass, rebuilds the app around each child for parents, and changes how pages work on a phone.

Compass is a new area for onboarding and policy packs. A pack brings together documents, links and notes, is sent to chosen groups or people with a due date, and chases itself with automatic reminders. Documents are uploaded once and reused across packs, with versions kept, so everyone can be asked to confirm a policy again when it changes. Completion is tracked with totals, filters and a history for each person, and staff can record a completion on someone's behalf, withdraw someone, send a reminder or export the results. New joiners can be sent a personal link before they have an account, which is joined to their School record once it exists. Packs can include multiple-choice questions with a pass mark, marked securely, with answers shown only after a pass.

Parents now get an app arranged around their children. Each child has their own tab, which can be reordered or hidden, and each child's profile leads with attendance and offers timetable and report tabs where the School shares them. Each of a child's sets has an option to email all of its teachers.

On a phone, each page's sidebar is now a capsule above the tab bar. It names the page you are on, opens the full list in a sheet, and holds that page's main action, so saving a register, requesting cover, sending a message or completing a report is always in the same place and always within reach. Pages whose sidebars are simply lists of destinations open as a searchable grid instead.

School reports now show previous reports from earlier cycles, matched by set, subject or step and sorted by year, and note when a report was written on another member of staff's behalf. Roster differences now name the pupil, set and staff involved.

Also in this release: scheduled messages now deliver their notifications, tapping a notification opens the page it refers to, the web app starts reliably when notification support is blocked, draft messages keep their subject, and staff with export permission can open reports again.

### 2026.10.2 — 2026-10-10

This update focuses on School reports and timetables, and includes a wide set of corrections.

Report cycles can now be set up to match how a School actually runs them. A step can be limited to chosen subjects, so different subjects can use different report shapes in one cycle. A cycle can be published to pupils and families, families only, pupils only or staff only. Cycles can be saved as templates and reused, text and marks can be copied from another cycle into blank fields, and a step's shape can be changed after writing has begun, with control over which answers carry across.

Reviewing is now explicit: reviewers can be named for a step, writers can be given their own pupils' earlier reports to review, and a list of what is waiting appears alongside a writer's own reports. A step's date is now a due date rather than a lock, so overdue reports can still be written; writing stops a day before the cycle publishes instead. Report administration opens on every outstanding writer across every open cycle, with tools to reallocate, complete, delete or add reports, and reports removed or moved by hand are no longer recreated. Sport and co-curricular reports can be allocated to the coach who takes the set. Each School can set its own subject order, which reports and exports follow.

The writing screen has been made considerably more reliable: saves retry when they fail, text typed during a save is no longer lost, simultaneous edits are handled clearly, and there are keyboard shortcuts for saving, completing and moving between pupils.

Timetables can now be printed, individually or in bulk, as properly laid out pages with the School's crest, set colours and a key. Layouts are designed per School, a new rotation view matches the printed page, and duty slots appear on both. Free periods can be exported to PDF or Excel.

Lesson cover can be allocated while an absence is filed, candidates are drawn from the live timetable, and each person is now emailed only about their own cover. External contributors, such as visiting coaches, can be added to write reports without being given staff access. Resources can now hold files as well as links, and can be limited to particular groups.

Three faults that could show a timetable to someone not entitled to see it have been corrected, as has a photo upload that ignored its own setting and wrote to the School's records. Around 2,100 phrases that had been appearing in English have been translated, and a large number of smaller stability and accessibility improvements have been made throughout.

### 2026.9.6 — 2026-10-08

No release notes.

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