Kinderloop Plus vs nForma Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Kinderloop Plus
This app simplifies documenting children's development for childcare educators and teachers globally. It securely shares child-specific information with linked families through real-time updates and allows private posting between family members.
- Educator-led features
- Secure child development documentation
- Real-time updates for families
- Private family posting
- Login with existing credentials
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Kinderloop Plus includes many new educator led features and is a recommended download for all Kinderloopers on newer devices, both educator and family member! Simply download to your device and login with your usual username and password. Kinderloop is the simplest, most secure & fun way β¨for child care educators/teachers worldwide β¨to document childrenβs development. Child specific information is privately shared with linked family, β¨through real-time updates. Families can also privately post to each other in Kinderloop Plus!!
nForma Connect
This app serves as a central hub for parents, carers, and school staff to manage school communications and student information. It allows users to access notices, forms, newsletters, book meetings, and communicate securely with the school.
- School notices and announcements
- Digital forms and responses
- School newsletters
- Parent-teacher meeting bookings
- Secure parent and school chat
- Student reports
- Push notifications
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nForma Connect helps parents, carers, and school staff stay connected with important school communication and student information. With nForma Connect, families can access school notices, complete forms, view newsletters, manage parent-teacher meetings, receive alerts, communicate through school chat, and access relevant student information from one secure mobile app. Key features include: β’ School notices and announcements β’ Digital forms and responses β’ School newsletters β’ Parent-teacher meeting bookings β’ Secure parent and school chat β’ Student reports β’ Medical and wellbeing information β’ Push notifications for important updates β’ Staff access to supported school modules nForma Connect is designed for schools using the nForma platform. Access is provided by your school, and available features may vary depending on your schoolβs configuration. If you need help logging in or updating your contact details, please contact your school administration team.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: nForma Connect at 100% against Kinderloop Plus's 41%. Kinderloop Plus's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kinderloop Plus ships an update every 11 days, nForma Connect every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kinderloop Plus | nForma Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews β better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days β better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 β better | 15.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kinderloop Inc | on5 solutions pty ltd |
Customer experience
Kinderloop Plus
nForma Connect
Bugs and requests
Kinderloop Plus
Reported bugs
53 issues- App doesn't send email to reset or create login
- App doesn't respond
- Loads whole page instead of updating data
- Delay on posts showing up
- Notifications show old posts
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- Difficult to tell what's updated after notification
- New content doesn't show up after refreshing
- Daily Activity section is unclear and scrolls terribly
- Super slow and glitchy
- Notifications received but no update loads
- Takes hours for information to feed through
- Hard to find old contents
- No search, no filter for old content
- Not user friendly, everything is all over the place
- Usability issues and buggy
- Notification opens to last post, not the notified post
- Comment text box too big for phone screen
- Cannot save photos
- Cannot sign incident report if leaving comments
- Don't know which is the new post or comments
- Need to read every post to find the new one
- Wait to import photos is complicated and time consuming
- No option to re-upload later
- Sound doesn't always play on all devices
- Feed is messy, not displayed in chronological order
- Cannot have one-to-one conversation with a teacher
- Save to Camera Roll functionality removed
- Cannot download photos and videos directly
- Password reset link not sent
- Parents not able to view daily activity on the app
- Reopening page issues, app won't download unless closed and reopened
- Updates take a few hours to drop in
- Showing unknown error every time app is opened
- Screenshot is allowed, but download is not
- Teachers sending pics for whole week regardless of attendance
- Frustrating to log in via web browser for daily activity and accident reports
- Cannot take screenshot of photos
- App is really buggy, lots of crashes with 'unknown error'
- Posts don't load 50% of the time
- Takes hours (sometimes a whole day) for posts to appear
- Lack of ability to download photos and documents
- Cannot comment on posts since last update on mobile device
- Login required at least once per day on iPhone
- Constantly logged out
- Notifications aren't popping up or are delayed
- Massive lag with notifications
- App glitches and crashes when rotating phone
- Need improvement in UI/UX
- Login problems
- Refresh issues
- Delay on posts and notifications
- App doesn't send email for reset or login
- Save to Camera Roll functionality gone
Requested features
25 requests- More specific notifications
- Option to mute notifications for specific post types
- Dedicated spot for daily posts on main navigation
- Download photos and videos directly
- Save photos to camera roll
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- Option to re-upload photos
- Download images
- Option to exclude sending to parents whose child is not in that day
- Download option for photos and documents
- Improve refresh issues
- Make daily activity viewable on app
- Improve UX and customer experience
- Appoint a UX expert
- Redesign the app
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Improve notification system
- Add search and filter for old content
- Allow comments on posts
- Improve feed display (chronological order)
- Allow one-to-one conversations with teachers
- Add functionality to save photos and videos
- Fix sound issues on different devices
- Improve login session management
- Provide option to download photos and videos
nForma Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Kinderloop Plus
No in-app purchases
nForma Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Kinderloop Plus free?
Is nForma Connect free?
Do Kinderloop Plus or nForma Connect have ads?
Which is updated more often, Kinderloop Plus or nForma Connect?
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