Comparison

Safer Schools vs Smoothwall Browser

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

Head to head
About

Safer Schools

This app provides safeguarding information and advice for parents, pupils, and school staff. It uses an application-based learning environment with quizzes and accredited courses to educate users on safety. Push notifications keep the school community informed of important updates and incidents.

Highlights
  • Safeguarding information and advice
  • Application Based Learning Environment (ABLE)
  • Quizzes and accredited courses
  • Audit functions for training impact
  • Push notifications and alerts
  • CPD accredited courses
Features
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Part of the INEQE Group’s Safer Schools Package, the Safer Schools App is designed to help educate, empower and protect the entire school community. This ‘three in one’ compendium Application is packed with contemporary, credible and relevant safeguarding information and advice for parents, pupils , teachers and other school staff. Built by some of the world’s leading safeguarding professionals it really is a one stop shop. The more often users engage the App, the safer they will be. Utilising its Application Based Learning Environment (ABLE) the Safer Schools App makes consuming important information easy and accessible. Quizzes, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) accredited courses, tests and audit functions, enable schools to evidence the impact of training and push notifications and alerts keep the entire school in touch with information about serious incidents, key updates and events. Critically, safety information, advice and help is never further away than a user’s iPhone or iPad. Disclaimer: Your organisation must be registered with Safer Schools in order to use the app.

About

Smoothwall Browser

Features
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The Smoothwall iOS browser is for use by Schools or other organisations who wish to protect young people. !!! This app should not be downloaded and installed unless you have been asked to do so by your organisation's administrator. Once it is successfully deployed, it connects to the Smoothwall Cloud Filter service (licensed separately) to access your organisation’s filtering and child-welfare policies. Smoothwall Cloud Filter is designed to keep young and/or vulnerable people safe in an online environment. It provides realtime filtering and alerting in order to ensure a high level of protection against inappropriate content, and potentially harmful use of the web. Features • Realtime content filtering of web pages browsed within Smoothwall Browser • Realtime alerting • Access logging and reporting via Smoothwall Cloud Reports

Screenshots

Safer Schools4 screens
Smoothwall Browser2 screens

Verdict

The call

Safer Schools and Smoothwall Browser are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Safer Schools ships an update monthly, Smoothwall Browser every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Safer Schools versus Smoothwall Browser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSafer SchoolsSmoothwall Browser
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB469 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperIneqe Group LtdSmoothwall

In-app purchases

None

Safer Schools

No in-app purchases

None

Smoothwall Browser

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Safer Schools free?
Safer Schools is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smoothwall Browser free?
Smoothwall Browser is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Safer Schools or Smoothwall Browser have ads?
Neither Safer Schools nor Smoothwall Browser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Safer Schools or Smoothwall Browser?
Safer Schools ships an update monthly, and Smoothwall Browser every 2 months. Most recently, Safer Schools was updated on October 29, 2026 and Smoothwall Browser on October 25, 2026.

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