Comparison

RollCall Parent vs Maths Monsters

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

Head to head
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.

About

Maths Monsters

Features
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Maths Monsters turns everyday maths practice into a friendly creature-battling adventure. Kids explore islands, meet collectible monsters, and win battles by solving maths questions pitched at exactly the right level — from counting your very first apples in Prep to fractions, decimals and times tables in Year 6. Choose your curriculum — the Australian Curriculum v9, US Common Core, England’s National Curriculum, or the New Zealand Curriculum — from Foundation/Prep to Year 6. And every question and lesson is fully voiced by a friendly professional narrator, so even the earliest readers can play on their own. WHY KIDS LOVE IT • Collect and grow a team of quirky maths "monsters" • Battle town wardens by answering questions — get it right, land the hit • Hundreds of towns to explore across seven year-level islands • Every question read aloud — listen, don’t just read WHY PARENTS & TEACHERS TRUST IT • Four curriculums built in — Australia (AC v9), United States (Common Core), England, and New Zealand • Fully voiced by a professional narrator — great for pre- and early readers • Thousands of unique questions per year level, so practice stays fresh • Pitched by year: Prep counts real pictures; older years tackle place value, fractions, decimals, money, time, percentages and order of operations • A built-in working-out scratchpad (finger or Apple Pencil) for showing your thinking • A big, friendly number pad — including a decimal point — for typing answers • No ads. No accounts. No data collection. Plays fully offline. EASY FOR THE LITTLEST LEARNERS Prep levels are almost entirely visual and fully voiced: count groups of objects, spot which group has more or fewer, find one more and one less, and recognise shapes — little reading required. GROWS WITH YOUR CHILD Pick any curriculum and year level from Prep to Year 6. Each save keeps its own progress, so siblings can share a device. FREE TO TRY Play one year level with a few free battles. A single one-time purchase unlocks every level and every town — no subscriptions, ever.

Screenshots

RollCall Parent4 screens
Maths Monsters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RollCall Parent at none against Maths Monsters's 1. RollCall Parent also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Maths Monsters's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Maths Monsters sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RollCall Parent asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RollCall Parent ships an update fortnightly, Maths Monsters every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
RollCall Parent versus Maths Monsters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRollCall ParentMaths Monsters
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews18.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB637 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRollCall Safety SolutionsKendal Slack

In-app purchases

None

RollCall Parent

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Maths Monsters

One-time1
  • Full Adventure$5.99

Questions

Is RollCall Parent free?
RollCall Parent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Maths Monsters free?
Maths Monsters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do RollCall Parent or Maths Monsters have ads?
Neither RollCall Parent nor Maths Monsters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RollCall Parent or Maths Monsters?
RollCall Parent ships an update fortnightly, and Maths Monsters every 2 days. Most recently, RollCall Parent was updated on September 24, 2026 and Maths Monsters on September 9, 2026.

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