Comparison

Firefly for Students vs Tonbridge App

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Tonbridge App

This app unifies information for staff, students, and parents within a school community. It features organized "spaces" for specific information, an improved search function, and theme customization options for a personalized experience.

Highlights
  • Unified community access
  • Organized information spaces
  • Improved search functionality
  • Theme and background customization
  • Accessibility color options
Features
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The Tonbridge App puts the School day in one place. Sign in with your Tonbridge account to see your timetable, your reports, the notices that matter, and the forms and bookings that used to mean an email chain. It is for pupils, parents and staff at Tonbridge School, and it needs a School account to show anything at all. What you see depends on who you are, so there is nothing to set up and no wrong version to download. PUPILS • Your timetable, with the week letter and the room, so you know where to be next • School reports and exam results as they are published • Rewards and sanctions, so nothing arrives as a surprise • Absence and Offex requests, sent from your phone instead of chased in person • The School calendar, trips, event sign-ups and club lists • Handbooks, policies and your reading list • Report an IT or facilities problem, and follow it through to a fix PARENTS • All of your children in one app, a tap apart • School reports, exam results and a summary of how each term has gone • Book parents' evening appointments yourself, at a time that works • Absence and Offex requests, and the School's answers to them • Trip information and forms • Termly health forms and Check Your Details, so the School holds the right information • Billing extras, itemised, so a term's charges are never a mystery STAFF • Registers taken in seconds, on a phone in a corridor or a laptop in a classroom • Class lists, set lists and pupil profiles, with the pastoral context in front of you • Lesson cover, free periods and who is where • Rewards, sanctions and private notes, recorded where pupils are actually discussed • Leave requests, allowances and approvals, with your team's cover visible before you book • Professional development submissions and approvals • House and site compliance: fire checks, accident reports, critical incidents • Advanced search and saved queries across the data your role allows MADE AT TONBRIDGE The app is built and run in-house by the School's IT and Digital team. If something is wrong or missing, the people who can fix it are down the corridor. Log a ticket from Service Desk in the app. DETAILS • Light and dark, plus a set of colour themes • Respects your system text size • The same app on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Notifications open the screen you need, not the home page SIGNING IN Sign in with your School account. Parents new to the School receive their sign-in details from the School. Without a Tonbridge account, the app has nothing to show you. PRIVACY You only ever see the information your role entitles you to. The app is covered by the School's privacy policy: https://tonbridge.school/privacy

Screenshots

Firefly for Students4 screens
Tonbridge App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tonbridge App at 67% against Firefly for Students's 25%. Tonbridge App also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). Firefly for Students's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Firefly for Students ships an update fortnightly, Tonbridge App every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Firefly for Students versus Tonbridge App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirefly for StudentsTonbridge App
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews24.7% of reviews66.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB441 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFirefly Learning LimitedTonbridge School

Customer experience

Firefly for Students

All ratings41 ratings
Positive70.7%
Neutral4.9%
Negative24.4%
Written reviews154 reviews
Positive24.7%
Neutral12.3%
Negative63.0%

Tonbridge App

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

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

Tonbridge App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Firefly for Students

No in-app purchases

None

Tonbridge App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Firefly for Students free?
Firefly for Students is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tonbridge App free?
Tonbridge App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Firefly for Students or Tonbridge App have ads?
Neither Firefly for Students nor Tonbridge App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Firefly for Students or Tonbridge App?
Firefly for Students ships an update fortnightly, and Tonbridge App every 4 days. Most recently, Firefly for Students was updated on September 19, 2026 and Tonbridge App on September 17, 2026.

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