Sofos vs Institute Magica
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sofos
Gain insights into your child's school performance with real-time data on attendance, academics, and homework. Take action by submitting leave requests and understanding how to improve their academic success.
- Visualize child's performance
- Analyze attendance history
- Track academic records
- View homework assignments
- Manage service requests
- Submit leave requests
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Visualizing your child's performance is better than ever. Sofos (by OBTO) provides valuable insights to parents regarding their child's activities and performance in school. It channels in and analyses data from multiple sources, and presents them in the most intuitive manner. As a parent or a guardian, you can easily visualize data such as attendance history, academic records, assigned homework and much more. You can view real time status of your service requests, whether they are pending, approved or rejected. Sofos not only presents this data to you, but also helps you understand what it means, and how you can use it to improve you child's performance in school. Apart form data analysis, Sofos also gives you the ability to take meaningful actions right from the app. As a parent, you can create and submit new leave requests. Some of the key features in this release are: -Authenticate using assigned parent account -View up-to-date student profile -View & analyse attendance history -View, create & analyse service requests Please feel free to reach us at support@obto.co for any questions you may have regarding Sofos.
Institute Magica
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Parents can now download the app and login to see the details of their wards like payments done, payments due, test marks, attendance, etc. Also parents can see the messages sent by Institute Magica on their app. Moreover, parents can use their credit/debit cards to make online payment for fees. They can also make payment using NEFT.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Institute Magica at none against Sofos's shown. Institute Magica also leads on update cadence (daily vs monthly) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Sofos ships an update monthly, Institute Magica daily. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sofos | Institute Magica |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OBTO Inc. | Techior Solutions Private Limited |
In-app purchases
Sofos
No in-app purchases
Institute Magica
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do Sofos or Institute Magica have ads?
Which is updated more often, Sofos or Institute Magica?
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