Comparison

Expanscience Academy vs Growappy

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

Head to head
About

Expanscience Academy

Features
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A Expanscience Academy, pertencente aos Laboratórios Expanscience® em Portugal surge, com o objetivo de estar mais perto de todas as pessoas que, de alguma forma, se interessam pelas nossas marcas. Nesta aplicação, para além de informação sobre os nossos produtos, poderá encontrar conteúdos sobre as mais diversas temáticas. A Expanscience Academy é uma aplicação dinâmica, que lhe permite aprender mais, de forma simples, e manter-se atualizado através da visualização de conteúdos (vídeos, imagens e quizes). Para mais informações, contacte-nos através do e-mail: academy.pt@expanscience.com

About

Growappy

This platform helps parents find the ideal school for their children by providing detailed information and parent reviews. It also offers a secure private social network for communication between schools and families, utilizing facial recognition for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • School search with detailed information
  • Parent and student reviews
  • Private social network for schools and families
  • Facial recognition for content privacy
  • Visit scheduling and automated booking
  • Instant messaging and group chats
Features
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Growappy is the best platform in the market to find the right school for your children. We provide key details about every school, public or private, from nursery to high school, enriched with reviews from parents and students. With this, Growappy provides valuable information in a structured manner, for parents who are searching for a school as well as for schools who will get visibility on which aspects are most valued by their customers. Growappy also provides a unique communication experience between the school and the families of its students, via a private social network where security and confidentiality is taken to the next level! With an innovative approach on publishing content to parents, Growappy leverages machine learning algorithms to perform facial recognition in order to display content containing children only to the right family members. FOR SCHOOLS • Increase visibility - Highlight your school with pictures, describe the history, pedagogies, services and activities that make your school special • Reply to reviews - Stay alert to reviews from parents, family and students, being able to provide them feedback you consider important • Visit scheduling - Provide to end users the possibility to schedule visits to the school on a configurable time window, with fully automated booking • Pricing and promotions - Disclose school fees and publish campaigns with special promotions or discounts • Private social network - Unique communication channel, very practical for school employees and fully focused on security for children and their families, using facial recognition algorithms to ensure only the right viewers • Instant messaging - Integrated messaging between school staff and parents, as well as automatic chat groups between parents of school classes FOR PARENTS • Find the right school - Use extensive search options to find the most suited school for your childrenaccording to location, services, activities, pedagogies, among others • Visit scheduling - Use our automated booking to visits a school you're interested in • Private social network - Unique communication channel, where you'll get a real-time feed of pictures taken by school employees of your children as well as announcements, able to perform likes and submit comments • Privacy and control - Available settings to control how your children should be displayed in group pictures with multiple children, where facial recognition algorithms will blur out faces of children with a restrictive setting • Instant messaging - Exchange instant messages with school staff and get automatic access to a group chat with all parents of the children in the class where your kids are into • Notifications - Get real-time notifications in your devices of new posts in the private social network, instant messaging and other events Any questions or feedback? Reach out to us via contact@growappy.com

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Expanscience Academy at 11.0 against Growappy's 15.6. 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

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

Expanscience Academy ships an update every 4 months, Growappy every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Expanscience Academy versus Growappy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExpanscience AcademyGrowappy
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB76 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLaboratórios Expanscience Produtos de Higiene, Sociedade Unipessoal, LDACloudtrice, Lda

In-app purchases

None

Expanscience Academy

No in-app purchases

None

Growappy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Expanscience Academy free?
Expanscience Academy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Growappy free?
Growappy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Expanscience Academy or Growappy have ads?
Neither Expanscience Academy nor Growappy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Expanscience Academy or Growappy?
Expanscience Academy ships an update every 4 months, and Growappy every 3 months. Most recently, Expanscience Academy was updated on October 18, 2026 and Growappy on October 13, 2026.

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