CfEApp with Benchmarks vs Scot Ed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CfEApp with Benchmarks
Access the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and its additions, including ASN Milestones, directly on your device. This offline app simplifies planning and reference for educators, parents, and interested parties, reducing the need for printed materials and saving costs.
- Access Curriculum for Excellence
- Includes ASN Milestones
- Offline functionality
- Facilitates class planning
- Reduces printing costs
- Easy access for staff and parents
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The Curriculum for Excellence is the basis for the Scottish Educational system and over the years since it's introduction there have been a few additions to improve the achievement of the E's and O's. Included in the CfEApp with Benchmarks now also includes the ASN Milestones, making the app useful to more teachers. A teacher may access all the information on the Scottish Education Website in various Word, Excel, and PDF formats for class planning. The Curriculum for Excellence App makes accessing the Curriculum for Excellence Experiences and Outcomes easier for Staff and parents directly on their devices. The use of this App will allow those interested in accessing the Scottish 3-18 Curriculum with ease. Content has been assembled from the Education Scotland Website and once installed requires no access to the internet to be used, making it a simple, lightweight app for your phone and accessible from the broom cupboard if needed! As a Teacher, I found it difficult to access the information readily in a meeting or general discussion while in school or away at a training day. Either I had to lug about the Experiences and Outcomes folder all the time or be left without it at critical moments in meetings and discussions. Equally, while planning and trying to match up cross-curricular themes, the folder made the task more difficult due to its size. When a meeting was scheduled, Experiences and Outcomes were printed so everyone had a copy for the discussion. I set about creating something we could all access and use, while at the same time reducing unnecessary printing and additional costs to department budgets. The Curriculum for Excellence app will sit quietly on your phone and should you require to access an E and O at a point in a meeting or check its relation during an in-service day or educational talk, then this should make it easier to stay focused on what is being discussed and not be thinking about where your folder is or what page you need to turn to. Please come back and rate this app once you have used it. I know it seems so petty, but this helps other teachers, interested bodies, and parents find it and use it. Even a small like will help out a great deal. I have tried my best to make the Curriculum for Excellence app as simple to access as possible and for it to be accessible to as many IOS devices as I am able, knowing that technology is moving faster than we are able to purchase gadgets and tech. With that in mind, if you have a suggestion, concern, or complaint, please get in touch and let me know so I can try to develop it, fix it, or address it. Thank you for your support. (The developer has no affiliation with Education Scotland.)
Scot Ed
This app provides a direct channel for schools to share rich, timely information with students and parents. It consolidates news, events, alerts, photos, videos, and essential school documents in one accessible location.
- Consolidated school news and blogs
- Up-to-date events calendar with add to calendar option
- Customizable alerts and group notifications
- Photo and video sharing from school
- Centralized access to key school information
- In-app forms and surveys
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Welcome to Scot Ed - the education app for Scotland for iPhone and iPad! This is the most direct way for your school to provide you with rich, timely and relevant information. You can read it there and then, browse it later, respond if necessary, or simply use it as a reference source when out and about. All straight from your phone. News Blogs, website news, newsletters, Twitter, video, pics of the pupils at work and play and key documents are all collected in one place on the app. They will be sent to you by push notification alert so you won’t miss them. Events Calendar Having the school calendar on your phone is a lot more accessible than the one pinned to the fridge and more accurate too as it’s automatically updated regularly. Use the Add To Calendar feature to add priority events for you to your personal calendar. Alerts Select yourself into whichever groups you most want to hear from to ensure you receive letters home, reminders, late bus announcements, forms, accounts of the day, newsletters and much more. You are in control so there’s no more being bombarded with everything or feeling left out of the loop. Photos and Video Pictures tell a thousand words and video a million. Watch them when the school sends them out, then again with relatives next time you see them. Key Information All the everyday school information you need to know collected in one place - menus, contacts details, timetables, uniform requirements, key dates, who’s who, curriculum information, exam timetables, legal policies, procedures documents, handbooks - all easily accessible in one place. What can’t be housed on the app can be easily reached from it via embedded links to further reading or copyright or password-protected sites or apps. Forms and surveys No more need for paper or emailed forms which are a bore to fill out and return. Now you can reply directly on the app in 10 seconds if you’re in a hurry or at more length if not. Snap surveys are shorter and more to the point than online ones and equally easy to fill out and return. This app is designed so that you will not share any personal data or manufacturer or network unique device identifiers with us when you download it. There is no advertising on the app. We do not use cookies to track you before or after you have left the app. We will never sell or share any data about users of this app with any commercial third parties. For full details, see the listing details below for links to our Privacy and Data policies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CfEApp with Benchmarks at 100% against Scot Ed's 22%. Scot Ed's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 12 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Scot Ed is free to download; CfEApp with Benchmarks costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CfEApp with Benchmarks ships an update every 12 months, Scot Ed every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CfEApp with Benchmarks | Scot Ed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maurice Randall | Schappit Ltd |
Customer experience
CfEApp with Benchmarks
Scot Ed
In-app purchases
CfEApp with Benchmarks
No in-app purchases
Scot Ed
No in-app purchases
Questions
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