Comparison

SIMS Parent vs Intellect Plus

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Intellect Plus

Features
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Brain food, not brain rot. Intellect Plus is a calm, swipeable feed of the most interesting things humans know: history, science, space, art, ideas, nature, cultures, music and more. Every card is a short, well-written story you can read in under a minute, with its sources named. When something grabs you, go deeper: every card has a five-minute read behind it. A FEED THAT'S GOOD FOR YOU • Thousands of cards across 18 subjects, with new ones every day • Short hooks that reveal at reading pace, and a longer read when you want it • Every card credits its sources, from encyclopaedias to museums and science bodies • Talks and explainers from hand-picked educational channels, right in the feed • Your feed learns what you enjoy, privately, on your phone EXERCISE YOUR MIND • Thousands of original challenges: maths, logic, patterns, words, spelling, memory, attention and estimation • Every answer explained, so you learn something whether you're right or not • Challenges appear every so often as you read, or play as many as you like in Challenges • Difficulty adapts to you: easy when you're warming up, harder as you improve WATCH YOURSELF GET SHARPER • Intellect IQ: your demonstrated reasoning level, from the challenges you solve • Intellect Power: everything you've learned and accomplished, growing with every card you read and every challenge you take on • See your strengths by area, your streak and your badges • Intellect IQ reflects your performance across Intellect's reasoning challenges. It isn't a clinical or standardised IQ test. MADE FOR CURIOUS PEOPLE • Read aloud: have each card read to you in a natural voice, made on your device • Auto-scroll: sit back and let the feed move on when each card is done • Save cards for later, share a beautiful picture of any card, and join the conversation in the comments • No account needed. Sign in only if you want your progress on every device. No outrage, no endless noise. Just the good stuff, one card at a time.

Screenshots

SIMS Parent4 screens
Intellect Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SIMS Parent at 11.0 against Intellect Plus's 16.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SIMS Parent ships an update fortnightly, Intellect Plus every 8 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SIMS Parent versus Intellect Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSIMS ParentIntellect Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.1 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews2.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB47 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEducation Software Solutions LtdVaitly Limited

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

Intellect Plus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SIMS Parent

No in-app purchases

None

Intellect Plus

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SIMS Parent free?
SIMS Parent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Intellect Plus free?
Intellect Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SIMS Parent or Intellect Plus have ads?
Neither SIMS Parent nor Intellect Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SIMS Parent or Intellect Plus?
SIMS Parent ships an update fortnightly, and Intellect Plus every 8 days. Most recently, SIMS Parent was updated on November 6, 2026 and Intellect Plus on November 6, 2026.

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