SchoolsBuddy 2.0 vs School Cloud
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SchoolsBuddy 2.0
This comprehensive system connects parents, staff, and students, streamlining school-related activities. It manages bookings, sports, billing, and transport, enhancing parent engagement and simplifying administrative tasks for schools worldwide.
- Activity and trip coordination
- Billing and payment management
- Sports scheduling
- Transport management
- Role switching for multiple users
- Integration with MIS/SIS providers
- Single Sign-on capabilities
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The complete School-to-Home Management System for Parents, Staff and Students Mobile application for SchoolsBuddy's integrated portal for activities, bookings, sports, billing and transport. This app is for all users in a school from Activities and Trip Co-ordinators, finance departments, through to parents and students. If you have multiple roles, the app will enable you to switch role and help you on a daily basis. SchoolsBuddy is part of the Faria Education Group product suite which includes learning and admission applications via ManageBac and OpenApply, however, SchoolsBuddy can function in a school without these tools. Used in over 400 schools in 50+ countries to enable schools to improve parent engagement, simplify processes and enable schools to manage anything extra-curricular in an organised way. We sync data from many world leading MIS/SIS providers and allow Single Sign-on with a variety of providers including Google, Microsoft, ISAMS, Firefly, ManageBac and many more.
School Cloud
This school management app enhances communication between students, parents, and teachers. It provides instant notifications for important updates, announcements, and events, streamlining administrative tasks and improving the overall student experience.
- Enhanced student-parent-teacher communication
- Instant notifications
- Important update alerts
- Announcement dissemination
- Event reminders
- Streamlined administrative tasks
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We are excited to announce the first release of our school management app! This update offers numerous improvements and developments to enhance the student experience and facilitate administrative tasks. • Enhanced communication: We have improved communication between students, parents and teachers. Stay connected with instant notifications of important updates, announcements and events.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: School Cloud at 2.9 against SchoolsBuddy 2.0's 1.0. School Cloud also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
School Cloud holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively.
SchoolsBuddy 2.0 ships an update monthly, School Cloud every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolsBuddy 2.0 | School Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 2.9 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Faria Education Limited | Sayed Fadhel Ali |
Customer experience
SchoolsBuddy 2.0
School Cloud
In-app purchases
SchoolsBuddy 2.0
No in-app purchases
School Cloud
No in-app purchases
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