Engage School vs Frog GO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Engage School
This app provides parents with secure access to essential school information, including timetables, notices, fee details, and student reports. It streamlines communication between schools and parents with features like click-to-call and push notifications for critical messages.
- Timetabling access
- School notices
- Parent fee information
- Student reports
- Click-to-call/email
- Push notifications
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The Double First Engage School App, enables quick and secure access to vital school information. The Engage School App can be used by parents, providing access to key areas such as timetabling, school notices, parent fee information and student reports. The Engage School App will significantly improve the flow of information between schools and parents. Simple features such as click to call and click to email through the App speed up contact between the school and parents, with push notification available, parents have no reason to miss school critical messages even when on the move. A customised school specific version of the Engage App is also available to those schools wishing to add a more bespoke and professional touch to their Engage School App. This includes the addition of the school badge, colour scheme and images where required, making your school stand out from the crowd. The Engage School App can only be used in conjunction with Double First’s Engage Management Information system and if your school is using the Parent and Staff Portals.
Frog GO
This app enhances school communication by connecting students, parents, and teachers. It facilitates assignment management, broadcast messaging, and private conversations, fostering greater engagement and streamlined information sharing within the school community.
- Broadcast messaging
- Push notifications
- Assignment management
- Calendar viewing
- Private and group chats
- Formal message sending
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Frog GO the complete communication app for your school. It's arrived! Our new, fully supported mobile app companion to your Frog platform with broadcast messaging and push notifications, we provide your community with that all important connection to your school. Benefits: * Improve Communications Across your School! * Increase Parental Engagement * Manage your Assignments * View your Calendars Features: Assignments Teachers can quickly create assignments on the go using the app. Students can then complete quizzes and activities assigned to them on the move. Announcements Now you can prepare and send formal messages to one or more people (parents of a class or the whole school, for example) - you can even send and receive private replies! Chats Users will be able to organise and review their private conversations and group chats. Similar to WhatsApp, but fully controlled by the school.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Engage School at 2.7 against Frog GO's 2.4. On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Engage School holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 4% of Engage School's written reviews are positive against 11% of Frog GO's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Engage School ships an update every 3 months, Frog GO every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Engage School | Frog GO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (7 ratings) — better | 2.4 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 3.6% of reviews | 10.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Double First Ltd | Frog Education Ltd |
Customer experience
Engage School
Frog GO
Bugs and requests
Engage School
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Frog GO
Reported bugs
48 issues- Login issues
- Slow performance
- Frequent crashes
- Random logouts
- Identity data lost on update
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- Notification markers persist
- Unresponsive tabs
- Password reset issues
- Frozen password reset screen
- Timetable/planner not working
- Accidental opening of assignments
- Parent/child assignment lists differ
- Work not showing
- Parent view badly arranged
- Unresponsive screen
- Glitching on iPad
- App not running properly on iPad
- Takes multiple logins to work
- Cannot access files
- App not working on iPhone
- Latest updates rendered useless
- Cannot get to homework page
- App crashes frequently
- Forced to log in continuously
- Errors on login
- App bugs
- Latest update rendered useless
- Cannot open/submit tasks
- App glitches
- No response on login
- Have to log in every time
- Cannot get past school website page
- Cannot click help button
- Buttons not working
- Cannot access links
- Timetable doesn't load
- Pictures compressed and distorted
- Cannot open or zoom pictures
- Password wrong on computer
- Automatically handed in work
- App doesn't work on phone
- Glitchy or laggy
- Couldn't open homework
- Couldn't see homework
- Uploading files is harder
- Doesn't sense touch
- Doesn't load anything
- No option to contact support
Requested features
3 requests- Landscape mode on iPad
- Reinstated previous version
- Add feature for landscape mode on iPad
In-app purchases
Engage School
No in-app purchases
Frog GO
No in-app purchases









