LIA Nest vs AdminPlus SIS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LIA Nest
Access your class schedule, school news, and important updates in one place. Stay connected with the school community through sports, health information, and announcements.
- Class schedule management
- School news updates
- Smart links for information
- Sports and health information
- Community updates
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- My Schedule: Keep up with your weekly class schedule - Discover weekly with LIA News - Stay Updated with LIA Smart Links! LIA Nest combines Sports, Health, News and Updates in a user-friendly manner to keep up with the LIA community at all times.
AdminPlus SIS
Manage student information, attendance, grades, and discipline records on the go. Communicate with students, staff, and parents through integrated messaging and notification features. Access demographic data and schedules for efficient school administration.
- Student and staff directory
- Attendance tracking (absent/tardy)
- Discipline incident reporting
- Student schedule viewing
- Grade and GPA assessment
- Mass communication via AP Notify
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Easily search and scroll through all students, staff, and contacts to quickly call, text, or email. Users can easily switch between schools within the app. Access student demographic fields such as allergy information and locker combinations. See when a student is absent or tardy. Know what class a student is supposed to be in at any given time. Assess how a student is performing in school by viewing his or her grades. Enter new discipline incidents. Use AP Notify features to reach contacts via email, text, and voice message. Student Demographics: Choose any of the AdminPlus database fields to view in the AdminPlus Mobile App, including contact database fields and alert fields. Filter and scroll through all students, staff, and contacts to quickly call, email, or text. Attendance: See when a student is absent or tardy. View summary totals and the list of events. Discipline & Incident Reporting: View previous infraction details and add new incidents while at the scene. The penalty summary shows only the “penalty” with a total for Served or Outstanding for the date range, followed by a list of incidents. Student Schedules: Know what class a student is scheduled to be in at any time. Display block names, times, and teacher name. An important security feature, the mobile app highlights the class the student should be in during the current period. Use settings to choose rotation and section terms. Grades and GPAs: Assess how a student is performing by viewing their grades. See grades, skills, and GPAs. Selected marking period grades, course name, teacher and comments are displayed. Selecting a class will display additional marking period grades. Notifications with AP Notify: AP Notify features are now included in the AdminPlus mobile app. Quickly notify thousands of contacts within your school community via email, text, and voice message, without having to import data. Note: requires AP Notify as part of the AdminPlus SIS. NOTE: You must have the PlusPortals installed to use this app in conjunction with AdminPlus. Please contact Rediker Software at 800-213-9860 to add PlusPortals and enhance your current AP products. Requires version iOS 13.0 or higher.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AdminPlus SIS at 100% against LIA Nest's 33%. AdminPlus SIS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8) and ads (none vs shown). LIA Nest's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AdminPlus SIS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of LIA Nest's written reviews are positive against 100% of AdminPlus SIS's.
LIA Nest ships an update every 9 days, AdminPlus SIS every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LIA Nest | AdminPlus SIS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lincoln International Academy Educational Excellence | Rediker Software, Inc. |
Customer experience
LIA Nest
AdminPlus SIS
In-app purchases
LIA Nest
No in-app purchases
AdminPlus SIS
No in-app purchases
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