Markham Communicator vs 1st Flight
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Markham Communicator
This app provides parents and students with access to academic information. View grades, homework, schedules, and attendance records. Requires a student or parent account.
- Receive notifications
- Access grades
- View homework
- Check schedules
- Monitor attendance
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Through this application, Markham College parents can receive notifications and access their children's grades, homework, schedules, attendance, etc. Also, students can access this information and more. This application is for users who have a student or parent account only.
1st Flight
This app guides users through creating mobile-first marketing campaigns, including push notifications and surveys. It explores audience features, A/B testing, and message optimization. Users can connect their account to send messages to their own device and learn about mobile marketing strategies.
- Create push notifications
- Design surveys
- Explore audience features
- Learn A/B testing
- Send messages to your device
- Optimize mobile marketing strategies
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Download 1st Flight today and learn how Airship can power mobile-first marketing. The app guides you through creating push notifications, surveys, and other messages that you can send to your own device. You’ll also learn about audience- and event-related features, A/B testing, and more. Unleash your creativity, optimize your strategies, and achieve remarkable success in mobile marketing. Try it it now! Create an account at go.airship.com. We’ll email you a magic link so you can connect your account with the 1st Flight app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 1st Flight at 5.0 against Markham Communicator's 2.7. 1st Flight also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Markham Communicator's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (14.1 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, ads 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.
1st Flight holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Markham Communicator's written reviews are positive against 100% of 1st Flight's.
Markham Communicator ships an update every 3 weeks, 1st Flight every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and June 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Markham Communicator | 1st Flight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (14 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Colegio Markham | Urban Airship Inc. |
Customer experience
Markham Communicator
1st Flight
In-app purchases
Markham Communicator
No in-app purchases
1st Flight
No in-app purchases
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