Comparison

Parent vs SpacesEDU

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

Head to head
About

Parent

This app streamlines childcare operations for professionals and families. It manages enrollment, billing, scheduling, and staff tasks, while also facilitating parent engagement with real-time updates and secure messaging. It supports multi-location management and child development tracking.

Highlights
  • Complete operations management
  • Financial management and invoicing
  • Staff scheduling and communication
  • Child development tracking
  • Parent engagement and messaging
  • Multi-location management
Features
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Parent: Complete Childcare Management The all-in-one solution trusted by childcare professionals and families nationwide. Streamline operations, engage families, focus on caring for children. Whether you’re running a small preschool or managing multiple centres, Parent handles your daily operations so you can focus on what matters most: caring for children. Key Features: Complete Operations - Enrolment, billing, scheduling, compliance Financial Management - Automated invoicing, billing, in-app payments Staff Tools - Scheduling, communication, staff planning Child Development - Lesson planning, observations, assessments Parent Engagement - Real-time photos, videos, status updates, secure messaging Multi-Location - Manage multiple centres seamlessly Perfect For: - Center administrators and owners - Teachers and childcare staff - Parents staying connected Why Parent: - Live customer support when you need it - Works on any device - mobile, tablet, or computer - Secure, cloud-based and fully compliant - Trusted by thousands of centres nationwide Download Parent today and transform your childcare experience.

About

SpacesEDU

This app facilitates portfolio-based assessment for educators and students. It allows for the creation and collection of student work in various formats, assessment of learning against standards, and communication of progress through visual reports. Students can engage in feedback and sharing within a dedicated digital space.

Highlights
  • Portfolio-based assessment tools
  • Assign and collect student work
  • Assess mastery of standards
  • Create visual report cards
  • Real-time feedback and messaging
  • Support for various media types
  • Group collaboration spaces
Features
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SpacesEDU makes it easy for teachers and students to capture, communicate, and celebrate the growth that’s happening in and out of the classroom. Based on feedback from 15+ years of educator insight, SpacesEDU Portfolio-Based Assessment (PBA) tools allow teachers to assign activities, collect evidence of learning in multiple formats, assess student mastery of standards and competencies, and create visual report cards. With SpacesEDU, student assessment progress becomes a two-way conversation. Students can ask questions, receive teacher feedback, peer review, and share work in an authentic and flexible way - all without leaving the SpacesEDU app. Provide real-time feedback on student work through commenting and messaging without leaving the app. Bring SpacesEDU into your classroom today and give your students their own space to learn, grow, and tell the stories behind their grades. Key Features • Activities: Easily create, track, and review activities to engage students in the learning process and provide a space for self-reflection • 1:1 Spaces: Create a safe one-on-one (teacher to student) space for your students to showcase their work in a portfolio, on topics, units, or self-reflections. Create 1:1 Spaces to better organize all of the work happening within your classroom and tie them to your own course objectives • Group Spaces: Spark collaboration with spaces for students to work on group projects, peer reviews, and more. Create your own groups or have them created for you • Space to grow: Add unlimited files to student or teacher accounts • Support for a wide variety of media types: Upload files (20 file types), capture content directly from your camera or microphone, add links from websites, or import from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. You can add up to ten media attachments to a post • Reporting Spaces: Think of it as a visual report card or summative portfolio. Teachers can easily bookmark exemplary artifacts of student learning throughout the year and add it to a Reporting Space. With Reporting Spaces, share student growth with family and/or students at the end of the year or at various progress points. Available only to schools and districts licensing SpacesEDU Pro Reporting Add-On • Proficiency Scales: A Standards-Based Assessment feature that makes it easy for educators to assess and report on student progress on learning outcomes and competencies using a 4 point scale (customize the scale with SpacesEDU Pro!) • Class Engagement and Read Receipts: Teachers can quickly view whether students or family have accessed the classroom or read specific messages • Technical support for teachers and students: We offer an unparalleled support experience, including live chat support for all users & personalized onboarding and support for schools and districts • Direct Messages: Have direct, real-time conversations with students, teachers, family members with messages (SpacesEDU Pro) • Drafts: Not ready to publish your post? Save posts as a draft so you can come back to them once you’re ready • Channels: With channels, you can send class announcements and communicate with all students, all family members, or both. You decide when and if to allow replies. (SpacesEDU Pro) • Family accounts: Family members can create accounts to view, comment, and celebrate their student’s work, engage with posts, and message with the teacher. (SpacesEDU Pro) • Advanced settings and notifications, including options to enable private or collaboration-focused workspaces • FERPA, COPPA, and PIPEDA compliant privacy standards: Protecting student privacy is foundational in the design of this product • Clever SSO: Users are able to signup and login using Clever • QR Codes - Allow students to use QR Codes to log into the SpacesEDU platform - making it even easier to get started. Teachers can access, share or print QR Codes for their students directly within their Classes. Available only to schools and districts licensing SpacesEDU Pro.

Screenshots

Parent4 screens
SpacesEDU4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Parent at 71% against SpacesEDU's 7%. Parent also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.0) and monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Parent holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 103 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Parent's written reviews are positive against 7% of SpacesEDU's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Parent ships an update every 5 days, SpacesEDU every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Parent versus SpacesEDU: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParentSpacesEDU
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (103 ratings) — better2.0 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews — better6.9% of reviews
Number of ratings103 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB149 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperParent ApSDoublethink Inc.

Customer experience

Parent

All ratings103 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.9%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews168 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral4.2%
Negative24.4%

SpacesEDU

All ratings21 ratings
Positive23.8%
Neutral4.8%
Negative71.4%
Written reviews550 reviews
Positive6.9%
Neutral0.7%
Negative92.4%

Bugs and requests

Parent

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SpacesEDU

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login issues and inability to access accounts
  • Inconsistent performance and unexpected crashes

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improve app stability and responsiveness
  • Enhance user-friendly navigation and interface
  • Integrate more useful features for students and teachers

In-app purchases

None

Parent

No in-app purchases

None

SpacesEDU

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Parent free?
Parent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SpacesEDU free?
SpacesEDU is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Parent or SpacesEDU?
Parent is rated higher. Parent averages 4.7 out of 5 from 103 ratings, while SpacesEDU averages 2.0 from 21 ratings.
Do Parent or SpacesEDU have ads?
Neither Parent nor SpacesEDU shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Parent or SpacesEDU?
Parent ships an update every 5 days, and SpacesEDU every 2 weeks. Most recently, Parent was updated on October 19, 2026 and SpacesEDU on October 22, 2026.

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