ePathshala vs SchoolPad App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ePathshala
Access a wide range of educational e-resources, including textbooks, audio, and video content. This platform aims to provide equitable, quality, and inclusive education for all, bridging the digital divide. Users can interact with digital books through various features like highlighting, note-taking, and text-to-speech.
- Access to textbooks, audio, and video resources
- Digital book interaction (pinch, zoom, bookmark)
- Digital note-taking and highlighting
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Cross-platform accessibility (mobile, web)
- Offline book storage
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The ePathshala, a joint initiative of Ministry of Education & NCERT. The digital India campaign has promoted extensive use of ICTs in the teaching learning process. The ePathshala, a joint initiative of Ministry of Education(MoE), Govt. of India and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has been developed for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals, and a variety of other digital resources. The ePathshala Mobile app is designed to achieve the SDG Goal no. 4 as well i.e. equitable, quality, inclusive education and lifelong learning for all and bridging the digital divide. Students, Teachers, Educators and Parents can access eBooks through multiple technology platform that is mobile phones and tablets (as epub) and from the web portal through laptops and desktops (as Flipbook). ePathshala also allows users to carry as many books as their device supports. Features of these books allow users to pinch, select, zoom, bookmark, highlight, navigate, share, listen to text using text to speech (TTS) apps and make notes digitally.
SchoolPad App
This app allows parents to stay informed about their child's school progress and receive updates. Parents can also communicate directly with teachers about their child's academic queries.
- Child progress tracking
- School updates
- Direct messaging with teachers
- Academic query discussions
- Mobile access to school information
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SchoolPad App is the mobile version of SchoolPad School Management Software to keep parents up to date with their child's progress and updates at School. Parents can also send messages and discuss their child related queries with teachers directly through this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SchoolPad App at every 5 weeks against ePathshala's every 11 months. ePathshala's advantage is review sentiment (41% vs 27%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.4 for ePathshala against 3.3 for SchoolPad App. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of ePathshala's written reviews are positive against 27% of SchoolPad App's.
ePathshala ships an update every 11 months, SchoolPad App every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ePathshala | SchoolPad App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (14 ratings) — better | 3.3 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.4% of reviews — better | 26.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NCERT | SchoolPad Technologies Private Limited |
Customer experience
ePathshala
SchoolPad App
In-app purchases
ePathshala
No in-app purchases
SchoolPad App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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