SIMS Parent vs Bromcom Student App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SIMS Parent
This app allows parents to actively engage with their children's education by providing access to homework, calendars, timetables, and assessment results. Parents can also track progress, view behavior reports, and communicate with schools via secure messaging. It consolidates information for children attending different schools, enhancing safeguarding and parental involvement.
- View homework and assignments
- Access student calendars and timetables
- Track assessment results and reports
- Monitor attendance and behavior
- Secure messaging with schools
- Manage multiple children across schools
- Update safeguarding information
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Please note: For security, this app requires an invitation code from your child's school. Be proactive Engaging with your children's education is key to their success. Help them stay on track with due dates by seeing their: - Homework - Calendar - Timetable - Extra-curricular activities Track progress See the information needed to understand your children's education and their overall performance better. Securely view your children's records: - Assessment results - Truancy - Behaviour: good and bad - School reports Stay connected Get alerts. Send and receive messages. Schools can send you alerts and messages straight to your phone. All your children in one place across schools With SIMS Parent, you can see all your children's data even if they attend different schools. (Requires schools to set up access for SIMS Parent) Safeguarding Help keep your children safe. In an emergency, up-to-date information helps schools meet their safeguarding obligations. Manage what information the school holds right from your phone. About SIMS SIMS: the School Information Management System at the heart of 21,000 UK schools.
Bromcom Student App
This app helps students manage their academic life by providing access to attendance, timetables, behavior tracking, and exam schedules. Students can also view lesson plans, school events, important documents, and manage club involvement.
- View Attendance
- Check Timetable
- Track Behaviour
- Monitor Exams
- Access Lesson Plans
- See Upcoming Events
- Manage Clubs
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Bromcom Student App helps students stay organised and connected to school, wherever they are. With a clean, modern experience across phone and tablet, students can quickly view key information, keep on top of their day, and access the things they need most- securely and conveniently. Students can check Attendance, view their Timetable, keep track of Behaviour, and stay on top of Exams. They can also access Lesson Plans, see upcoming Events, and manage involvement in Clubs. Plus, Important Documents and Detentions are available in-app, and Single Sign-On (Microsoft or Google, where enabled by your school) makes logging in quick and easy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bromcom Student App at 3.8 against SIMS Parent's 2.2. Bromcom Student App also leads on review sentiment (17% vs 2%). SIMS Parent's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Bromcom Student App holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 32 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 2% of SIMS Parent's written reviews are positive against 17% of Bromcom Student App's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SIMS Parent | Bromcom Student App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (19 ratings) | 3.8 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 2.0% of reviews | 16.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Education Software Solutions Ltd | Bromcom Computers Plc |
Customer experience
SIMS Parent
Bromcom Student App
User reviews
SIMS Parent
From 19 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for tracking attendance
- 👍 Useful for checking timetables
- 👍 Useful for viewing achievement logs
- 👍 Useful for viewing behaviour logs
- 👍 Useful for keeping on top of homework
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly crashes
- 🐛 Frequently logs out
- 🐛 Unreliable and unusable
- 🐛 Difficult to log in
- 🐛 Password reset issues
Bromcom Student App
From 32 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for tracking homework and timetable
- 🚀 Useful app for school
- 💡 Good for checking stats and information
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and crashes frequently
- ⏱️ Slow loading times
- 👎 Confusing and unintuitive layout
- 🤯 Frustrating homework submission process
- 🔁 Incomplete/outdated information and notifications
Bugs and requests
SIMS Parent
Reported bugs
61 issues- App crashes frequently
- App logs users out unexpectedly
- Login details are not recognized
- Password reset functionality is broken
- App is very slow to load
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- App freezes or becomes unresponsive
- Notifications are not delivered or displayed correctly
- Unable to access certain features like dashboard or messages
- App does not work on iPhone
- Account gets locked without reason
- Password reset requires unprovided security questions
- App gets stuck in a login loop
- App does not load school pages
- App does not refresh data
- App is not updated for a long time
- Unable to reply to teacher messages on iPhone
- Login details are declined
- Cannot log in with new password after reset
- App requires re-registration every time
- App signs out or bugs out frequently
- App kicks users out randomly
- App does not accept activation codes
- Login details keeps getting declined
- App is unusable at best of times
- App is missing features after installation
- App is not sending password reset emails
- App is stuck on a specific date
- App is not user friendly
- App gets stuck in an endless loop
- Two-step authentication causes immediate lockout
- Password reset button doesn't work
- Black box covers typing area on iPhone
- App is buggy and in development stage
- Login page remains blank
- App is stalking and annoying
- App constantly asks to change password, then invalidates it
- App disables accounts and won't reset passwords
- App stalls loading on different sections
- App says account already exists after deletion
- App keeps loading and then logging off
- App shows error when trying to access messages
- App has issues with multiple children at the same school
- Tiles don't load
- Homework section has disappeared
- School dinner money account tab fails to load
- App acts as a hopeless gatekeeper to website
- App logs out and takes ages to log back in
- Recognition points take ages to load
- Session expired errors
- App asks for invitation repeatedly
- App does not allow marking homework as submitted
- Cannot open links for homework or attachments
- Random notifications with nothing to view
- App is not updated for weeks
- App is not fit for purpose
- App is a complete wind up
- App is utter garbage
- App is a joke
- App is dysfunctional
- App is a waste of time
- App is a horrible, wretched app
Requested features
13 requests- Fix login issues
- Improve app stability
- Update app regularly
- Better password reset functionality
- Improve communication features
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- Make app more intuitive
- Allow easier access to support
- Improve server capacity
- Allow linking multiple schools easily
- Fix message sending/receiving
- Make app work on all devices
- Provide clear error messages
- Allow easier login with fewer steps
Bromcom Student App
Reported bugs
4 issues- Randomly logs out users
- Timetable not loading properly
- Homework not updating correctly
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to mark homework as complete
- Improved notification system
- Smoother navigation and faster loading
- More customization options
- Better integration with other school systems
In-app purchases
SIMS Parent
No in-app purchases
Bromcom Student App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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