TomCom vs Together ACS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TomCom
This app serves as a central communication hub for parents and schools. It provides a secure inbox for important messages, a personalized school calendar, and a media feed showcasing educational highlights. Parents can also access photo galleries and news updates.
- Parent-school communication inbox
- Personalized school calendar
- Media feed of educational highlights
- News publications
- Pupil photo and video galleries
- Formal photo purchases
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TomCom is used by Thomas's for all communications with parents and consists of 5 areas. Need to know - This is the parents' own personal inbox with important need to know messages from the school. Calendar - A personalised school calendar for pupils. Parents can add events to their own calendars and also find more information like team sheets. Highlights - A media feed highlighting the diverse and progressive education Thomas's provides. News - A weekly news publication released every Friday during term time. Gallery - A photo and video gallery personalised for each pupil. Every day - A personal photo gallery for each pupil with free downloads for parents. Formal - Formal individual and class photos for parents to purchase as a download or print. Productions - All photos from the year group's production that each pupil takes part.
Together ACS
This app facilitates communication between school transport and drivers, offering real-time bus tracking, route management, and student monitoring. Parents receive notifications about schedule changes and delays.
- Real-time bus location tracking
- Bus route management
- Student tracking on buses
- Delay and schedule change notifications
- Direct communication with bus drivers
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The Together ACS application is used to communicate between the transport department of the ACS schools in Cobham, Hillingdon and Egham and the drivers of the school buses. This service allows ACS to track the location of buses in real time, manage bus routes, track students on the bus and communicate with the bus in case of delays or in cases where urgent assistance is required. Parents will be able to see where their child's bus is, and get notified of any changes to schedules, delays or other transport related issues.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TomCom at 3.4 against Together ACS's 3.0. TomCom also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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.
TomCom holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TomCom has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TomCom ships an update every 6 weeks, Together ACS every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TomCom | Together ACS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (7 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas's London Day Schools | Together School Ltd. |
Customer experience
TomCom
Together ACS
In-app purchases
TomCom
No in-app purchases
Together ACS
No in-app purchases
