School Spider Parents vs ParentZone
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
ParentZone
This app allows parents to receive real-time updates on their child's daily activities and milestones from their childcare provider. View photos, meal logs, nap schedules, and important health information securely. Share access with other family members to keep everyone informed.
- Daily activity updates
- Photo sharing
- Meal and nap logs
- Health and accident reports
- Secure family access
- Developmental milestones
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Stay up to date with your child’s activities and achievements even when you can’t be with them. Your Childcare Provider will upload photos and descriptions of your child’s day so that you’ll never miss a moment of your child’s development again. You can log in securely whenever is most convenient for you and see important information about your child’s day. Secure logins can be sent to other family members and carers so you can all join in to celebrate your child’s development. ParentZone will show you information about your child’s • Meals • Naps • Nappy Changes • Medicine • Accidents • Moments ParentZone can only be accessed via invitation from your Childcare provider. Speak to your Childcare provider about getting ParentZone today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ParentZone at 60% against School Spider Parents's 26%. ParentZone also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). School Spider Parents's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 6 weeks, ParentZone every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Spider Parents | ParentZone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (105 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.3% of reviews | 60.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 105 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SchoolSpider | Connect Childcare |
Customer experience
School Spider Parents
ParentZone
User reviews
School Spider Parents
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for admin
- 👍 Easy payment options
- 👍 Good for comms
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- 👍 Intuitive design
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent logouts
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 Cannot create account
- 🐛 Update problems
- 🐛 Notifications not working
ParentZone
From 105 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Reassuring for parents
- 👍 Great interface
- 👍 Keeps parents updated
- 👍 Allows sharing home learning
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs need fixing
- 🐛 Constantly logging out
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 Biometrics not working
- 🐛 Video/photo upload issues
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
ParentZone
Reported bugs
6 issues- Constant login issues
- Biometrics not working
- Video/photo upload failures
- Timeline not updating correctly
- Filtering not working as expected
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- Notifications not working
Requested features
7 requests- Allow emojis in messages
- Add meal details
- Allow bulk download of photos
- Improve notification details
- Allow two-device login
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- Add sleep tracking
- Improve account switching
In-app purchases
School Spider Parents
No in-app purchases
ParentZone
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is School Spider Parents free?
Is ParentZone free?
Do School Spider Parents or ParentZone have ads?
Which is updated more often, School Spider Parents or ParentZone?
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