EduLink One vs SchoolBase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EduLink One
This app facilitates seamless collaboration between teachers, parents, and students within a school environment. It streamlines administrative tasks, enhances engagement, and provides access to crucial student information like attendance, timetables, and behavior records.
- Teacher registration and marksheets
- Parent-teacher messaging
- Student attendance tracking
- Timetable and homework management
- Behavior and achievement monitoring
- Parent-teacher evening booking
- Cashless catering balance view
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Edulink One is a powerful new whole school solution designed for teachers, parents and students to effectively collaborate in a user-friendly mobile and web app. It reduces administration and improves engagement and student outcomes. At their fingertips, teachers can take registration and complete marksheets and behaviour. All users have access to messaging (via text, email or push notification), attendance, timetables, achievement, behaviour, homework, exams, student reports, medical and contact information, and more - all configurable to accommodate your school's needs. Manage and book parents' evenings, view cashless catering balances, share resources and collect information using forms.
SchoolBase
This app provides a secure platform for schools to communicate with parents and pupils. It offers features like timetabling, event notifications, and a notice board. Staff can also manage registers, pupil information, and send messages.
- Timetabling access
- Event notifications
- Notice board updates
- Register taking
- Pupil and group finder
- Message sending
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Furlong's SchoolBase enables fast, simple and secure access to important school information. Parents and pupils have access to key areas including: - Timetabling - Events - Notice Board SchoolBase helps improve communication between schools, parents and pupils. Staff can: - Take registers - Find pupils and groups - Access timetables - See events - Manage cover requests - Send messages to parents and pupils Even more features are in development and will be available soon!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EduLink One at 4.3 against SchoolBase's 2.7. SchoolBase's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 19%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
EduLink One holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 19% of EduLink One's written reviews are positive against 40% of SchoolBase's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
EduLink One ships an update monthly, SchoolBase every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EduLink One | SchoolBase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 19.3% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Overnet Data | Furlong Solutions |
Customer experience
EduLink One
SchoolBase
Bugs and requests
EduLink One
Reported bugs
17 issues- Login fails despite correct credentials
- Homework content displays only half the screen
- Cannot close homework popups without reloading app
- Behavior points show as 'NaN' instead of numbers
- Achievement points don't sync properly with notifications
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- Catering tab inaccessible for weeks
- Back button takes users to home instead of previous page
- Messages display unopened when already read
- App logs out when opening messages
- Timetable display shows wrong day (e.g., shows Tuesday when on Monday)
- Password reset required every login despite saved credentials
- Notifications arrive too late or not at all
- Exam timetable information missing or incorrect
- Servers frequently down or unavailable
- App crashes when checking homework frequently
- Links to external systems (iPayImpact) are clunky and slow
- No data loads in areas of poor connectivity
Requested features
14 requests- Implement Face ID or biometric authentication
- Add ability to stay logged in persistently
- Enable password saving functionality
- Add adjustable font size settings
- Implement offline data caching
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- Add dark mode option
- Create widget for quick timetable access
- Add search functionality across app
- Include ability to mark homework as handed in directly
- Show behavior point deduction details with explanations
- Add catering/meal balance information
- Improve back button navigation
- Reduce data consumption requirements
- Add direct teacher contact/messaging feature
SchoolBase
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
EduLink One
No in-app purchases
SchoolBase
No in-app purchases
Questions
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