Skool Loop vs Māori
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skool Loop
This app serves as a central hub for school communications, offering features like push notifications, interview scheduling, and digital forms. It facilitates absentee reporting and provides access to school newsletters and event calendars, streamlining communication for schools and parents.
- Push notifications
- School interviews
- E forms
- Absentee reporting
- School newsletters
- Event calendars
- Translation options
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A comprehensive school app that is a “One Stop Shop” for all school communications. Includes push notifications School interviews E forms Translations options for notices Absentee reporting, with an option of directly reporting to schools SMS Schools’ newsletter and School event calendars. A complete service for schools to use to communicate quickly and precisely to all schools throughout NZ and Australia.
Māori
Enhance your te reo Māori vocabulary and comprehension with visual aids for sentence structure and grammar. Daily practice is made easy and engaging, fitting seamlessly into your routine.
- Vocabulary building
- Sentence structure practice
- Grammar understanding
- Visual aids for comprehension
- Daily quick lessons
- Language acquisition principles
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Boost your vocabulary and improve your understanding of te reo Māori with the Ka Piki app! Sentence structure and grammar can be challenging for learners. Sentences are displayed with visual aids to reinforce correct word order and help comprehension. Daily practice is quick and easy; you can even do a lesson while watching TV—way more fun than flipping through a dictionary, plus it effortlessly fits into your day! The Ka Piki app's design is inspired by the "input hypothesis" of language acquisition and aims to expose learners to a volume of words and phrases at a rapid pace. The more you hear and understand, the more you will learn! Designed and built by te reo teachers based in Wellington dedicated to making te reo learning easy and accessible. We are working to continually improve learning content, so watch out for more content and lessons in upcoming releases!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Māori at none against Skool Loop's shown. Māori also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Skool Loop's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 68%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
Māori holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 43 and 53 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Skool Loop's written reviews are positive against 68% of Māori's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Skool Loop ships an update every 2 weeks, Māori every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skool Loop | Māori |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (43 ratings) | 4.8 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better | 68.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 43 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Advert Media | Dion Xhsio Jin Yiw |
Customer experience
Skool Loop
Māori
Bugs and requests
Skool Loop
Reported bugs
6 issues- Notifications not arriving or arriving significantly delayed
- Signature recognition failure on absence forms
- Australian app showing only New Zealand regions
- App crashes or glitches during use
- Unauthorized charges to payment methods
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- Regional selection not working properly after reinstall
Requested features
8 requests- Dark mode for easier reading
- Calendar integration with device calendar
- Tag/bookmark feature to read messages later
- Two-way communication system
- Improved signature functionality for absence notes
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- Expand school coverage to more institutions
- Better notification reliability
- Multi-school view without switching
Māori
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skool Loop
No in-app purchases
Māori
No in-app purchases
