Comparison

SchoolBase Parent vs Lodgical

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Timetable access
  • Notices and announcements
  • Attendance tracking
  • Multi-school support
  • Consolidated information
Features
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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.

About

Lodgical

Features
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Organisational AI for clubs and schools. Lodgical runs the whole organisation in one place: clubs, schools and competition. Pick your club or school once and everything for your family, your athletes or your pupils is there. WELFARE AND SAFEGUARDING, FIRST - Welfare concerns, incidents and safeguarding reports go straight to the Welfare Officer or Designated Safeguarding Lead, and nobody else - Welfare records are kept apart from everything else in the app, by design - Concussion and return-to-sport protocols followed step by step, with the family told at each stage - Medical and emergency information where the duty adult needs it, and nowhere else - Anonymous reporting for anyone who needs to speak up CLUBS - Every session and camp for your children, with travel and accommodation you update yourself - Camp places offered and accepted in one tap, consent signed when the club asks - Club, camp and group messages in one stream, with a bell for anything missed - Registers and roll call for coaches, camp planning and allocations for the committee - Invoices and payments with receipts, a club shop, training logs and a handbook SCHOOLS - Registers, and a golden thread that hands every pupil adult to adult through the day - Homework set and marked, markbook, reports and parents' evenings - Sick bay, medication and appointments, with parents informed - Boarding house, trips and fixtures, run from the same place - Parents and pupils see what is theirs; staff see their responsibilities COMPETE - Race and event entries with payment, start lists and results - Organisers reach entrants and their coaches directly - Team fixtures from invitation to team sheet to score - Live scoring for cricket and sailing, alpine results feeds ORGANISATIONAL AI - Speak, and the form is filled: registrations, consent, camp details, reports - Dictate a note on the hill or the touchline and it is filed in the right place - A morning brief for staff on what needs doing today - Answers about your club or school from its own handbook BUILT TO BE TRUSTED - Sign in with Face ID or fingerprint - Data held in the UK, run under an ISO 27001 information security programme - A child's name leads on every family screen; parents see only their own children - Every save confirmed, every message delivered or you are told Lodgical is used by ski race clubs, biathlon, academies and schools across the UK. Your club or school invites you. If yours is not yet on Lodgical, ask them to visit lodgical.club.

Screenshots

SchoolBase Parent4 screens
Lodgical4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lodgical at every 2 days against SchoolBase Parent's every 3 months. 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

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

SchoolBase Parent ships an update every 3 months, Lodgical every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SchoolBase Parent versus Lodgical: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchoolBase ParentLodgical
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFurlong SolutionsDaymarker Ltd

In-app purchases

None

SchoolBase Parent

No in-app purchases

None

Lodgical

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SchoolBase Parent free?
SchoolBase Parent is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lodgical free?
Lodgical is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SchoolBase Parent or Lodgical have ads?
Neither SchoolBase Parent nor Lodgical shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SchoolBase Parent or Lodgical?
SchoolBase Parent ships an update every 3 months, and Lodgical every 2 days. Most recently, SchoolBase Parent was updated on October 16, 2026 and Lodgical on October 12, 2026.

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