MCB PARENT APP vs Oxford Educate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MCB PARENT APP
Stay connected with your child's school. Receive important announcements, view assignments, track progress reports, and manage fees. The app also allows for bus tracking and direct messaging.
- School announcements
- Class assignments
- Progress reports
- Online fee payment
- Bus tracking
- Messaging
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MyClassboard provides communication app for parents using which they can receive school announcements, Class assignments, Events, Progress Report Card, Pay Fee Online, Track the bus and view messages.
Oxford Educate
This app provides an interactive digital version of school coursebooks, enhancing learning with multimedia content like videos, audio, and animations. It offers offline access, note-taking, and assessment tools for both students and teachers.
- Interactive eBooks with multimedia
- Offline download and access
- Note-taking and bookmarking
- Search and highlight text
- Dynamic question bank
- Printable lesson plans for teachers
- Animations, audio, and videos
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Oxford Educate is an interactive eBook available with school coursebooks published by Oxford University Press, India. It comes in a stunning design, refreshing interface, with offline download capabilities and a host of other features to enhance teaching and learning. Oxford Educate seamlessly integrates eBooks with videos, audio, images, and interactivities for an engaging experience. Mapped to the school coursebooks, it incorporates a variety of resources like interactive animations, videos, poem and prose animations/audio, instructional slideshows, lesson plans, answer keys, additional worksheets, image references, and much more. With an intuitive interface, seamless access to content, and more personal reading experience, using Oxford Educate makes classroom teaching interesting and interactive for both students and teachers. Features of eBook Reader: - Enjoy fresh intuitive eBook interface - Download and access Oxford Educate anytime & anywhere (offline or online) - Navigate through chapters easily using the Table of Contents - View in portrait and landscape mode with thumbnail-based navigation - Search, highlight important text, add notes and bookmarks - Full text-based search capability to look for any content within the eBook - Dynamic Question Bank tool helps create revision assessment sheets - Enjoy quality content with absolute fidelity to the original textbook layout - Animations of prose, poems, concept explanation, moral stories and historical facts - Audio for prose, poems, glossary and pronunciation - Additional reference material containing interactive exercises and worksheets - Videos, slideshows and weblinks for a dynamic explanation of key topics - Learning Nuggets (Computer) - Abacus, Geometry Box and Geome Tool (Mathematics) - Printable lesson plans along with answer keys to the exercises for teachers - Question bank for extra practice, worksheets and assessment
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Oxford Educate at 3.0 against MCB PARENT APP's 2.5. MCB PARENT APP's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (114 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Oxford Educate holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MCB PARENT APP has 114 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 11% of MCB PARENT APP's written reviews are positive against 8% of Oxford Educate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MCB PARENT APP ships an update every 11 days, Oxford Educate every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MCB PARENT APP | Oxford Educate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (114 ratings) | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Myclassboard Educational Solutions Private Limited | Hurix Systems Pvt. Ltd. |
Customer experience
MCB PARENT APP
Oxford Educate
Bugs and requests
MCB PARENT APP
Reported bugs
39 issues- App crashes frequently
- App is very slow
- Notifications not received or delayed
- Payment status does not reflect
- App does not load
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- Notifications seen but not in app
- Homework not shown completely
- App exits when opening student profile
- App showing absent when child is present
- App crashes when opening image gallery
- Attachments not opening in webview, requires download
- Notifications remain marked as unread
- Links like 'Dairy Updates'/'Latest Announcement' don't work after first click
- App does not work properly on iOS version 17
- App crashes when opening timetable or other options
- App suddenly exits when opening kids profile
- App doesn't work on ITab
- App crashes when trying to open timetable
- Bugs while opening image gallery
- Attachments are not given original names
- App not sensitive to touch on iOS
- Announcements section doesn't work properly on iOS
- Class diary section has scrolling issues
- Unable to attach PDF files on iPhones
- Zoom link window doesn't popup
- Cannot hear audio or pin video
- Academic option not available in mobile app
- Invalid credentials for login after password reset
- App hangs on iPhone 8
- Class diary shows limited entries
- Updates visible after a day or so
- App fails to open unless iPhone is restarted
- Last class not shown fully on iOS
- Join class option goes to parent portal
- App exits when attaching file in assignment
- App does not allow landscape orientation on iPad
- Password reset requires contacting school staff
- Student present/absent days not detailed
- Live sessions list not sorted by latest
Requested features
9 requests- Option to copy homework content
- Class diary share option via WhatsApp
- Feature to access multiple schools
- Display registered email/phone number in masked fashion
- Add 'empty slot' or 'no class' to timetable
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- Academics -> testwise report option available in mobile app
- Parents to register wards once against their email ID
- Timeline mode with filter option for messages/announcements
- Option for parents to send notes to school management
Oxford Educate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MCB PARENT APP
No in-app purchases
Oxford Educate
No in-app purchases
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