Firefly for Students vs Involve Education
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Firefly for Students
Access your school timetable, view announcements, and track homework assignments. Receive feedback on graded tasks and manage your personal to-do list with custom reminders. Submit homework directly from your device, including files and media.
- View school timetable
- Check homework assignments
- See grades and feedback
- Manage personal to-do list
- Submit homework with files
- Receive homework notifications
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The Firefly for Students app is your place to go to see your timetable, read school announcements, check on your homework, and see your grades and feedback. Simply log in using the code provided by your teacher to see your complete timetable and any homework your teachers have set you, along with feedback for any tasks that have been marked. You can add your own tasks and reminders, and link them to a specific class to create a personal to-do list. Firefly for Students lets you: - See your timetable, anywhere - Stay on top of your homework - Manage your own to-do list - Send in homework, with files, photos, video and audio straight from your phone - Know when new homework has been set for you - Work the way you want, moving seamlessly between the app and desktop Log in once and you’re ready to go. Note: The Firefly for Students app requires your school to have an active Firefly licence.
Involve Education
This app centralizes school-related information for students, teachers, and parents. It provides a single platform to access timetables, notes, messages, and learning resources.
- Timetable access
- Note management
- Message communication
- Resource sharing
- Activity tracking
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Involve is the simple way to keep track of all your school activities. Whether you’re a student, teacher or parent: now you can see all your timetables, notes, messages, resources and more all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Firefly for Students at 3.9 against Involve Education's 1.0. Firefly for Students also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (41 vs 1). Involve Education's advantage is review sentiment (46% vs 25%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Firefly for Students holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Firefly for Students has 41 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Firefly for Students's written reviews are positive against 46% of Involve Education's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Firefly for Students ships an update fortnightly, Involve Education every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Firefly for Students | Involve Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (41 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.7% of reviews | 46.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Firefly Learning Limited | Practice Pal Limited |
Customer experience
Firefly for Students
Involve Education
Bugs and requests
Firefly for Students
Reported bugs
15 issues- App stuck on 'Connecting to school' loading screen
- White blank screen on app launch
- Tasks not syncing between mobile app and website
- Completed tasks reappearing as overdue
- Timetable not loading or displaying correctly
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- Task descriptions showing as blank
- App crashing when opening tasks or attachments
- Hyperlinks unresponsive when clicked
- PDF files unable to open or display
- Notifications showing incorrect task counts
- Tasks disappearing or not appearing until due date
- App resetting or reloading unexpectedly
- Slow navigation between app sections
- File upload names changing to random codes
- Messages showing unread count but displaying none
Requested features
10 requests- Dark mode option
- Landscape orientation support for tablets
- Bulk mark tasks as done functionality
- Better file attachment handling with readable names
- Improved notification management
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- Faster app performance and responsiveness
- Sync completion status across all devices instantly
- Clickable hyperlinks in task descriptions
- Resource access within the app
- Offline functionality improvements
Involve Education
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Firefly for Students
No in-app purchases
Involve Education
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Firefly for Students free?
Is Involve Education free?
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Do Firefly for Students or Involve Education have ads?
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