XUNO Family vs School Portal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XUNO Family
Stay informed about your child's school life with real-time updates on messages, timetables, attendance, and school news. Manage payments, book parent-teacher interviews, and access school reports. This app facilitates seamless communication between parents, students, and the school to foster student progress.
- School messages and news
- Student timetable and attendance
- Event and fee payments
- Parent-teacher interviews
- School reports access
- Student progress tracking
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The XUNO App keeps parents and students up-to-date with: * Messages from the school * A student’s timetable * News items * Attendance communications * Events, Camps & Excursions * Fee and Event Payments * Parent Teacher Interviews * School Reports XUNO keeps staff on the same page and parents happy and informed, with a host of features designed around communication. XUNO helps teachers and parents build a strong understanding of each individual student and helps teaching professionals and parents work together to direct a student’s progress. Just some of XUNO’s features : Roll Marking Daily Organisation School Fee & Event Management Online Payments Progress Reports Student Profiles Incidents & Wellbeing Parent & Student Portal Parent Teacher Interviews Classwork & Lesson Plans Sign-in/out Kiosk Asset Management SMS & Email Communication Timetabling
School Portal
This app facilitates communication between teachers, parents, and students in a senior secondary college. It allows users to track student progress, manage attendance and activities, make payments, and access contact information and timetables.
- View student progress reports
- Manage attendance and absences
- Provide consent for excursions
- Access and pay fees
- View teacher and house leader contacts
- Check student timetable
- Receive notifications
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Wodonga Senior Secondary College utilises an online School Portal which is used to support a three-way partnership between the classroom teacher, parents and their child. Our School Portal is continually developed to keep parents and guardians informed of their child's learning and progression through their senior secondary education. The School Portal provides the following functionality: ° view and download student progress reports ° attendance - pre-approval and approval of unexplained absences ° student activities - provide consent for excursions ° payments - access and pay for subject and activity fees ° teacher and house leader contacts ° view student timetable ° notifications center
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: XUNO Family at 16% against School Portal's 0%. School Portal's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XUNO Family | School Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 16.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 273 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Semaphore Consulting Pty Ltd | Wodonga Senior Secondary College |
Customer experience
XUNO Family
School Portal
Bugs and requests
XUNO Family
Reported bugs
25 issues- Blank screen on loading
- Slow or no loading
- Notifications not marked as read
- Unable to delete notifications
- App freezes
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- Forever loading
- Error messages
- App constantly asks for login
- App won't open
- Logs out frequently
- Circle of death (loading icon)
- Cannot scroll up through notifications
- Notification count misleading
- Login errors (incorrect username/password)
- Forgets read notifications
- App crashes
- Cannot reset password
- No login option, only registration
- Menus don't close properly
- Updated messages not coming through
- Some messages cannot be removed
- No push notifications
- Blank screen after login
- Cannot access messages
- Video links not working
Requested features
19 requests- 💡 Usability tweaks needed
- 💡 Way to go back to event list
- 💡 Landscape mode for documents
- 💡 Fix notification marking as read
- 💡 Improve usability
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- 💡 Allow line breaks in messages
- 💡 Add red dot for specific unread sections
- 💡 Fix badge notification not disappearing
- 💡 Allow users to go back from a page easily
- 💡 Improve navigation for payments
- 💡 Better grouping of information
- 💡 Send notifications when information is available
- 💡 Fix video links not working
- 💡 Allow chatting with fellow students
- 💡 Add bookmarking feature
- 💡 Ability to email all teachers as a group
- 💡 Improve graphic interface
- 💡 Fix push notifications
- 💡 Allow direct user support
School Portal
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
XUNO Family
No in-app purchases
School Portal
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is XUNO Family free?
Is School Portal free?
Do XUNO Family or School Portal have ads?
Which is updated more often, XUNO Family or School Portal?
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