Imi vs SmartSchoolPro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Imi
This app guides parents in fostering their child's development from birth to age eight through playful activities. It helps record achievements, suggests appropriate learning experiences, and allows sharing progress with others. The secure platform ensures data privacy and supports a child's journey to thrive.
- Bespoke learning journey guidance
- Record child's achievements and development
- Suggest appropriate next learning steps
- Create a shareable journal of achievements
- Secure and encrypted data storage
- Add multiple children's profiles
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A child's brain grows 80-90% of its adult size before school. This time you have together from birth is really important to maximise your child’s learning. Imi has been designed to help you tenderly offer appropriate learning experiences for your child as you go about your daily life. Imi is a bespoke learning journey app that will guide you in gently fostering the development of your child from birth until the age of eight. Should you have a young baby, toddler or pre-schooler … you can begin today – it can never be too late! Key Features: • Add multiple children • Record your child’s achievements and development from any age up to their eighth birthday • Add optional photographs and comments to each achievement • Appropriate choices of next steps are suggested with ideas on how to offer the learning opportunity • Look back on the many remarkable things your child has achieved • Download and print or share a journal of achievement – similar to a baby book • Track your child’s achievements anywhere, anytime; all you need is an internet connection • Easily share progress with family, friends, Healthcare professionals, Early Years settings and Teachers • SECURE: Passworded software, where all data sent is encrypted, backed up and securely stored on Microsoft secure servers. Baby milestones are more than first smiles, first teeth and first steps. Their development and achievements are constant! Every interaction you have with your little one is contributing to the growth of their brain and aiding in giving them the skills that will enable them to thrive as they attend school and into adulthood. As the parent, you are your child’s first educator. Research and our own experience have taught us that it is the quality of the interaction rather than the amount of time spent carrying it out that really counts but it helps if you know what comes next as your child grows up. This is why Imi was created! Through this bespoke educational journey, the Imi app guides you in playful activities to boost your child’s learning and development without hot-housing or pressuring your child to perform. Based on in-depth research, Imi will guide you with a choice of appropriate ideas for your child to experience. Imi enables these learning opportunities to be organised through your normal daily routines, playthings, and by planning experiences and family times, linked to what your child is currently interested in. Traditional milestone charts detailing when a baby may roll over, sit up, or speak can simply produce worry and anxiety that your baby isn’t developing normally when they are probably fine! Imi’s suggested next steps are produced based on what your baby or child can already do and what, therefore, they are likely to achieve next. If your child does have any sort of delay, Imi is a wonderful way to help you to focus on what your child has achieved and give you ways in which to concentrate on how to support and appropriately encourage progress. After you have marked a step, such as ‘Finds hands and feet interesting’ (yes – a real achievement! EVERYTHING is new to your baby) as achieved, you will see a selection of possible next steps to choose from. Each of these milestones are supported with practical and helpful ideas on how to help your little one. After all, no baby is born with a handbook! With a simple tap, you can attach a photo and/or a comment as evidence of your son or daughter’s achievement. This makes Imi the perfect way to keep a record of your child’s learning and their first experiences of the world – rather than scattered across the ‘Pictures’ folder on your phone! Later you can then choose to download the whole Journal, or at any point, as you choose. Check out the Imi website www.myimi.uk For any support issues contact hello@myimi.uk
SmartSchoolPro
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Having theSmartSchoolPro app, parents always stay up to date with all the important news about their child and receive single- window targeted information. Teachers have all the relevant information about a child and family. It is not only convenient, but also increases the level of confidence between the family and the school. Depending on the type of user, the application provides different possibilities. If you are a parent of a child, you can have access to the following sections: - child’s personal data, including dietary habits, exercise tolerance, health group, etc. You can be sure that the staff members observe similar data; - a child's schedule allows seeing any day of the calendar. The schedule contains all child’s activities, daily routine, holidays, events, etc.; - targeted communication, represented by messages, announcements and mails. There are no common chats that take time; - menu for all days of the current week and archive; - daily brief report about the child’s condition and behavior (sleep, food, bowel habits, mood, etc.); - a schedule of additional classes that the child attends. All the afterschool clubs’ details; - a list of school staff members providing the possibility to send a message or call by pressing just one button of the smartphone. For the monitoring, the CEO could review the correspondence; - a list of child’s authorised persons allowing to verify the identity of each person; you can indicate persons who are allowed to pick up your child from school, as well as change the list; - your child's development testing history; - history of all assessments of your child; - details of all agreements concluded between you and a school, both valid and archived. If several children of your family attend the same school, you can switch from one child's profile to another by pressing one button. LICENSED APPLICATION END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SmartSchoolPro at Free against Imi's $0.99. Imi's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.6). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
SmartSchoolPro is free to download; Imi costs $0.99 up front. Imi sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and SmartSchoolPro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imi | SmartSchoolPro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Quality Early Years Ltd | EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC |
In-app purchases
Imi
- 1 Month$3.99
- 3 Months$9.99
- 6 Months$17.99
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- One Year$33.99
SmartSchoolPro
- Premium for 1 month$0.491 Month
- Premium for one year7 Days trial$4.991 Year
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