Comparison

School Spider Parents vs Parent Admin

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Parent Admin

This app streamlines communication between parents and nurseries. It allows parents to manage bookings, update child details, and view invoices. Nurseries can send important updates and newsletters directly to parents.

Highlights
  • Send booking change requests
  • Update child registration details
  • View invoices and payments
  • Receive nursery notifications
  • Manage funding eligibility codes
  • View booking patterns
Features
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Making life easier for nursery and pre-school parents to communicate with their nursery. Parents can send notifications directly to the nursery requesting any booking pattern changes, extra sessions, changes to emergency contact details, new allergy requirements, etc. The Nursery can also send notifications to parents keeping them up to date with emergency closures, newsletters, etc. This app allows parents to keep their children’s registration form details up-to-date including collection passwords, emergency contacts, permissions, consents and much more. We also allow parents to view all their invoices to date and see all payments made to their children’s account. This also reduces any confusion of how much is outstanding on their account. Booking patterns clearly displayed for all current and future sessions enabling the parent to see exactly when their children are scheduled to be attending the nursery. Funding (HMRC) eligibility codes can be kept up to date to ensure the parents don’t miss out on any funding claims. This app is designed to give parents access to parent admin on the go on any device, anytime, anywhere.

Screenshots

School Spider Parents4 screens
Parent Admin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Parent Admin at every 2 weeks against School Spider Parents's every 2 months. School Spider Parents's advantage is review sentiment (26% vs 14%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Spider Parents ships an update every 2 months, Parent Admin every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
School Spider Parents versus Parent Admin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool Spider ParentsParent Admin
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews26.3% of reviews β€” better14.3% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size23 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSchoolSpiderNursery In a Box Ltd

Customer experience

School Spider Parents

Written reviews57 reviews
Positive26.3%
Neutral3.5%
Negative70.2%

Parent Admin

Written reviews42 reviews
Positive14.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative81.0%

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
Show 15 more
  • 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
Show 3 more
  • Allow booking for multiple days at once
  • Add a create account option
  • Fix update notification close button placement

Parent Admin

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

School Spider Parents

No in-app purchases

None

Parent Admin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Spider Parents free?
School Spider Parents is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parent Admin free?
Parent Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do School Spider Parents or Parent Admin have ads?
Neither School Spider Parents nor Parent Admin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Spider Parents or Parent Admin?
School Spider Parents ships an update every 2 months, and Parent Admin every 2 weeks. Most recently, School Spider Parents was updated on October 19, 2026 and Parent Admin on October 11, 2026.

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