Classlist vs Involve Education
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classlist
Connect with other parents in your child's school community. Organize school runs, plan parties, and find carpool buddies. The app facilitates communication and event planning for parents and PTAs.
- Connect with classmates' parents
- Organize school runs and parties
- Find nearby families for carpooling
- Exchange items and get recommendations
- Plan PTA events and fundraisers
- Send school-wide announcements
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Meet your child's classmates, plan the school run and invite friends to parties. Classlist is the award-winning app that brings parents into the heart of their school community. In schools in 33 countries. - See who's who at school. Put a face to a name! - Ask the parents in your child's class a question and share info - Organise a parent meetup for your class and see what PTA events are coming up - Find families nearby to share lifts with on the parent map - Exchange items on the marketplace and ask for recommendations It’s safe, secure and kind. You're in control of how much information you choose to share and what notifications you want. Classlist is fully GDPR compliant, private and secure. It’s moderated by parents for parents to keep your community friendly, welcoming and useful. It’s inclusive — easy for all new parents to sign up. Download the app to join your school’s Classlist or set up Classlist for your school With additional features to support the PTA and Class Reps: - Arrange everything from coffee mornings to major PTA events. Send invites, reminders, and track RSVPs easily in events. - Sell tickets and take cashless payment online - Get out important messages to the whole school or any class or year quickly with announcements - Post to your class or year group - Fundraise with a raffle - Set up interest groups to bring parents together. Create groups to coordinate with your PTA team for specific events too! “We are really liking Classlist. It’s different to social media because it’s well controlled.” — Josephine Marsh, Head Teacher, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chalfont, UK "We had Facebook, WhatsApp and email. Classlist has brought it all into one place." Zarifa Dewey, Chair of St Aidan's School Association, Coulsdon, UK www.classlist.com support@classlist.com
Involve Education
This app centralizes school-related information for students, teachers, and parents. It provides a single platform to access timetables, notes, messages, and learning resources.
- Timetable access
- Note management
- Message communication
- Resource sharing
- Activity tracking
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Involve is the simple way to keep track of all your school activities. Whether you’re a student, teacher or parent: now you can see all your timetables, notes, messages, resources and more all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Classlist at 2.7 against Involve Education's 1.0. Classlist also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Involve Education's advantage is review sentiment (46% vs 34%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Classlist holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 34% of Classlist's written reviews are positive against 46% of Involve Education's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Classlist ships an update every 5 weeks, Involve Education every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Classlist | Involve Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 34.3% of reviews | 46.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Classlist | Practice Pal Limited |
Customer experience
Classlist
Involve Education
In-app purchases
Classlist
No in-app purchases
Involve Education
No in-app purchases
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