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.
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
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.
- Send booking change requests
- Update child registration details
- View invoices and payments
- Receive nursery notifications
- Manage funding eligibility codes
- View booking patterns
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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 childrenβs 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 childrenβs 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 donβt 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.
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Verdict
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
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, Parent Admin every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Spider Parents | Parent Admin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews β better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks β better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod β better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 β better | 18.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SchoolSpider | Nursery In a Box Ltd |
Customer experience
School Spider Parents
Parent Admin
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
Parent Admin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
School Spider Parents
No in-app purchases
Parent Admin
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is School Spider Parents free?
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Do School Spider Parents or Parent Admin have ads?
Which is updated more often, School Spider Parents or Parent Admin?
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