School Spider Parents vs SchoolBase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
School Spider Parents
This app facilitates direct communication between schools and parents. Parents can receive news, view calendars, and get push notifications for important updates. It also offers features like parent surveys, booking for events, and access to forums.
- Direct school-to-parent communication
- News and blog item access
- School calendar viewing
- Push notifications for messages
- Parent surveys
- Parents evening booking
- Parent forums access
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The School Spider application is designed to make it easy for your child's school to communicate directly with you. It allows you to read news and blog items directly on your mobile phone and also see the school's calendar. Your child's school can send messages directly to your mobile phone using push notifications. Logging in as a parent enables you to receive messages from your child's teacher, access parent surveys, book on to parents evenings and view parent forums. This will require a School Spider parent account, please contact your child's school for more information. Designed & developed by School Spider
SchoolBase
This app provides a secure platform for schools to communicate with parents and pupils. It offers features like timetabling, event notifications, and a notice board. Staff can also manage registers, pupil information, and send messages.
- Timetabling access
- Event notifications
- Notice board updates
- Register taking
- Pupil and group finder
- Message sending
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Furlong's SchoolBase enables fast, simple and secure access to important school information. Parents and pupils have access to key areas including: - Timetabling - Events - Notice Board SchoolBase helps improve communication between schools, parents and pupils. Staff can: - Take registers - Find pupils and groups - Access timetables - See events - Manage cover requests - Send messages to parents and pupils Even more features are in development and will be available soon!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SchoolBase at 40% against School Spider Parents's 26%. SchoolBase also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
School Spider Parents ships an update every 2 months, SchoolBase every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Spider Parents | SchoolBase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 2.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SchoolSpider | Furlong Solutions |
Customer experience
School Spider Parents
SchoolBase
Bugs and requests
School Spider Parents
Reported bugs
20 issues- Cannot create an account
- Credentials do not exist errors
- App redirects to scam app after update
- Not all bookings show up
- Bookings show blank
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- Notifications not working
- App logs out daily
- Cannot log back in after logout
- Reset password not working
- Update failure
- School list disappeared after update
- Update notification close button off screen
- App does not load
- Cannot open attachments on iPhone
- App won't load for booking parents evening
- Clicking change school logs out user
- Cannot reply to messages
- Cannot access simple things
- Cannot log in via app but can on PC
- App doesn't load after update, shows spider web
Requested features
8 requests- Ability to see all bookings in one place
- Improve calendar user-friendliness
- Option to refine booking options
- Add a way to reply to messages
- Improve accessibility for vision impaired users
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- Allow booking for multiple days at once
- Add a create account option
- Fix update notification close button placement
SchoolBase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
School Spider Parents
No in-app purchases
SchoolBase
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is School Spider Parents free?
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Do School Spider Parents or SchoolBase have ads?
Which is updated more often, School Spider Parents or SchoolBase?
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