Tonbridge App vs SchoolBase Parent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tonbridge App
This app unifies information for staff, students, and parents within a school community. It features organized "spaces" for specific information, an improved search function, and theme customization options for a personalized experience.
- Unified community access
- Organized information spaces
- Improved search functionality
- Theme and background customization
- Accessibility color options
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The Tonbridge App puts the School day in one place. Sign in with your Tonbridge account to see your timetable, your reports, the notices that matter, and the forms and bookings that used to mean an email chain. It is for pupils, parents and staff at Tonbridge School, and it needs a School account to show anything at all. What you see depends on who you are, so there is nothing to set up and no wrong version to download. PUPILS • Your timetable, with the week letter and the room, so you know where to be next • School reports and exam results as they are published • Rewards and sanctions, so nothing arrives as a surprise • Absence and Offex requests, sent from your phone instead of chased in person • The School calendar, trips, event sign-ups and club lists • Handbooks, policies and your reading list • Report an IT or facilities problem, and follow it through to a fix PARENTS • All of your children in one app, a tap apart • School reports, exam results and a summary of how each term has gone • Book parents' evening appointments yourself, at a time that works • Absence and Offex requests, and the School's answers to them • Trip information and forms • Termly health forms and Check Your Details, so the School holds the right information • Billing extras, itemised, so a term's charges are never a mystery STAFF • Registers taken in seconds, on a phone in a corridor or a laptop in a classroom • Class lists, set lists and pupil profiles, with the pastoral context in front of you • Lesson cover, free periods and who is where • Rewards, sanctions and private notes, recorded where pupils are actually discussed • Leave requests, allowances and approvals, with your team's cover visible before you book • Professional development submissions and approvals • House and site compliance: fire checks, accident reports, critical incidents • Advanced search and saved queries across the data your role allows MADE AT TONBRIDGE The app is built and run in-house by the School's IT and Digital team. If something is wrong or missing, the people who can fix it are down the corridor. Log a ticket from Service Desk in the app. DETAILS • Light and dark, plus a set of colour themes • Respects your system text size • The same app on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Notifications open the screen you need, not the home page SIGNING IN Sign in with your School account. Parents new to the School receive their sign-in details from the School. Without a Tonbridge account, the app has nothing to show you. PRIVACY You only ever see the information your role entitles you to. The app is covered by the School's privacy policy: https://tonbridge.school/privacy
SchoolBase Parent
Access your children's school information, including timetables, notices, and attendance, all in one place. This app consolidates data from multiple schools for a streamlined parent experience.
- Timetable access
- Notices and announcements
- Attendance tracking
- Multi-school support
- Consolidated information
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SchoolBase for Parents enables fast and simple access to information about your children held by their school in SchoolBase. Parents have access to timetables, notices and attendance information. The app also allows parents with children in different SchoolBase schools to access the information on their children in one place, without having to switch between different apps. This app is the new replacement for the original SchoolBase app, which will be shortly removed from the app stores.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tonbridge App at 67% against SchoolBase Parent's 0%. Tonbridge App also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). SchoolBase Parent's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, 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.
Tonbridge App ships an update every 4 days, SchoolBase Parent every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and June 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tonbridge App | SchoolBase Parent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 441 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tonbridge School | Furlong Solutions |
Customer experience
Tonbridge App
SchoolBase Parent
In-app purchases
Tonbridge App
No in-app purchases
SchoolBase Parent
No in-app purchases
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