Comparison

SIMON Everywhere vs RollCall Parent

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

Head to head
About

SIMON Everywhere

This app provides parents with mobile access to school communications and functions. It allows for quick delivery of instant notifications, newsletters, emails, and important school forms directly to parents' devices.

Highlights
  • Instant notifications
  • Newsletters and emails
  • Absentee notifications
  • Excursion forms
  • Event updates
  • Parent access module
Features
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SIMON Everywhere is the mobility solution for SIMON Schools, delivering Parents Access Module (PAM) and Simon Schools functionality in a mobile phone app. Parents are able to log in with their existing PAM credentials. SIMON Everywhere is the only mobile app designed in consultation with and endorsed by SIMON Schools. SIMON Everywhere allows schools to quickly and easily communicate instant notifications, newsletter, emails, absentee notifications, excursion forms, events and more to the whole school community.

About

RollCall Parent

Track your child's school bus in real-time and receive safety alerts. Manage absences, bookings, and monitor bus activity for a secure commute. This app enhances school bus safety and communication.

Highlights
  • Real-time school bus tracking
  • Bus monitor and guardian features
  • Register absences
  • Adjust bookings
  • Real-time safety alerts
  • Excursion management
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Know your child is on the right bus, at the right stop, every trip. RollCall is the parent app for schools and bus operators that run on the RollCall school bus management system. When your child taps on with their smart tag or student card, you get a notification. From there you can watch the bus on the live map, all the way to school and home again. Follow every journey • Watch the bus move on the live map, updated in real time • Know the moment your child scans on and scans off • See each trip as a timeline, with the time and place of every scan Bookings made easy • Set up regular term travel in one sitting, morning and afternoon • See the week ahead at a glance and adjust single days • Report an absence in seconds, for one day or a stretch of days • Find the right stop with the built-in stop finder Alerts you choose • Be notified when your child boards, gets off, or gets on or off at the wrong stop • Route changes come straight to you, and you can acknowledge them in the app • Read everything back in the Messages tab, and pick which alerts reach you Payments sorted • Check your balance, see what you have been charged, and top up in the app where your school uses RollCall Pay Share access with carers • Add another parent, a grandparent or a regular helper with their own sign-in, so pick-ups and drop-offs are always covered Signing in is simple. Enter the email address your school has on file and the app works out the rest, including whether you use a password or your school's single sign-on. After that it stays signed in, so the map is only ever a tap away. Behind the app, RollCall pairs travel smart-tag technology with GPS tracking so schools, parents and bus operators all see where students are, from tap-on to tap-off. Drivers complete Bus Guardian walk checks so no child is ever left on the bus, and schools get the real-time visibility their duty of care demands. Your child's data is encrypted in transit, and RollCall's information security management system is independently certified to ISO/IEC 27001. RollCall is for families whose school or bus service uses RollCall. Not at your school yet? Ask them to book a free demo at rollcall.com.au. No obligation. No payment required.

Screenshots

SIMON Everywhere3 screens
RollCall Parent4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: RollCall Parent at 19% against SIMON Everywhere's 9%. 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

SIMON Everywhere ships an update weekly, RollCall Parent fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SIMON Everywhere versus RollCall Parent: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSIMON EverywhereRollCall Parent
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews9.3% of reviews18.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—14 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChris HordernRollCall Safety Solutions

Customer experience

SIMON Everywhere

Written reviews43 reviews
Positive9.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.7%

RollCall Parent

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive18.7%
Neutral16.0%
Negative65.3%

In-app purchases

None

SIMON Everywhere

No in-app purchases

None

RollCall Parent

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SIMON Everywhere free?
SIMON Everywhere is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RollCall Parent free?
RollCall Parent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SIMON Everywhere or RollCall Parent have ads?
Neither SIMON Everywhere nor RollCall Parent shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SIMON Everywhere or RollCall Parent?
SIMON Everywhere ships an update weekly, and RollCall Parent fortnightly. Most recently, SIMON Everywhere was updated on September 20, 2026 and RollCall Parent on September 24, 2026.

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