Comparison

Emerge vs PE Passport

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

Head to head
About

Emerge

This app provides school staff with secure mobile access to student data, including attendance, behavior, and assessments. It allows for real-time updates and emergency broadcasts, streamlining school administration and improving communication.

Highlights
  • Attendance registers (session & lesson)
  • Dinner choice recording
  • Fire registers
  • Behavior incident recording with evidence
  • Achievement recording
  • Assessment mark entry
  • Student and staff detail access
  • Emergency broadcast alerts
Features
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β€œI have found Emerge invaluable when meeting parents. I can show them behaviour, achievement and attendance information, when we are talking and looking up other relevant information it is immediate. It is great for taking registration on-the-go!" Groupcall Emerge gives key staff within your school secure access to your MIS data anywhere, anytime. Emerge Mobile is the companion app to Emerge Desktop, allowing you to perform a variety of common tasks on the move, including: β€’ Attendance registers: take session (AM/PM) and/or lesson registers. β€’ Dinner registers: primary schools can record dinner choices during morning registration. β€’ Fire registers: take a quick and simple fire register - know instantly who is missing and should be there. β€’ Behaviour: record behaviour incidents; record who, what, where, when and why – and include photographic and video evidence to upload to your MIS (where available). β€’ Achievements: record good behaviour, significant achievements or other events and include pictures of the achievement to upload to your MIS (where available). β€’ Assessment: record assessment marks against marksheets anywhere, anytime. β€’ Assessment without levels: record progress towards outcomes with the new assessment without levels (i.e. programmes of study) from your device. β€’ Student details: assess a student’s record to review their timetable, attendance history, behaviour events and more. β€’ Staff details: access limited staff details, including timetables. β€’ Review a range of summary reports, or see how your school is performing against its KPIs using the β€˜Today’ screen. β€’ Help me: raise the alarm to an emergency situation such as a poorly child, by sending an emergency broadcast to other staff as SMS or email. β€’ Messenger integration: send a message to an individual or group of parents directly from the app (requires a subscription to Groupcall Messenger). Data updates are written to the school MIS immediately, or as soon as you return to WiFi or mobile data* coverage. *(Emerge will use your device’s standard data allowance to fulfil this, if enabled). β€œEmerge has revolutionised the way we take registers. It is really beneficial to the efficient running of the school with all information at your fingertips.” What can I do with Emerge Mobile? β€’ Take registration wherever you are: on a school trip, in a temporary classroom, on the sports field – anywhere. No paper printouts required! β€’ Record accurate dinner registers every day at the same time as normal AM registration – no extra effort. Proven to save primary schools THOUSANDS of pounds per year just by reducing waste. β€’ Record behaviour and achievement events and capture the evidence in a snap using your device’s native hardware. β€’ Access student details wherever you are: have medical information securely to hand when on a trip, or emergency contact details should the worst happen. β€’ Record assessments whenever you need for any marksheet – perfect for the school field, in the staff room or at home! β€’ See a range of summary reports conveniently filtered by groups of interest; anytime, anywhere - including: --- Daily and yearly attendance. --- Behaviour and achievement events by type, activity, location and status. --- A list of students with birthdays for today. β€’ Review individual students' attendance summaries for early intervention and to reduce absenteeism: improve the speed and convenience of taking registers, make missing students quicker to identify and act upon, and spot patterns of absence - proven to help stamp out persistent absence. Emerge Mobile requires Emerge in your school to operate.

About

PE Passport

This tool helps school teachers plan, monitor, and assess physical education for students from Reception to Year 6. It offers a full curriculum with engaging lessons, progressive objectives, and video examples, allowing for easy tracking of individual student progress in both curriculum and extracurricular activities.

Highlights
  • Physical Education planning
  • Student assessment and tracking
  • Full curriculum access
  • Engaging, interactive lessons
  • Progressive learning objectives
  • Video demonstration links
  • Differentiated activities
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The PE Passport is an online Physical Education planning, assessment and tracking tool designed to enable School teachers to deliver, monitor and assess high quality, enjoyable and effective PE. The passport is child centred and allows pupils' PE provision to be planned, tracked and recorded from Reception to Year 6 It gives schools access to a full curriculum of engaging, interactive P.E lessons for each year group and each lesson contains clear, progressive learning objectives, differentiated activities, video links to example delivery ideas and a competitive element. Alongside this teachers can assess and monitor the progress of each individual easily not only within the curriculum but throughout the extra curricular and competitive activities the pupils take part in. The PE Passport is created by PE specialists for teachers, with a shared passion for delivering PE provision which is challenging, progressive and memorable.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: PE Passport at 100% against Emerge's 46%. Emerge's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Emerge ships an update every 2 months, PE Passport every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Emerge versus PE Passport: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEmergePE Passport
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews46.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews β€” better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPad
Requires iOS12.0 β€” better14.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size6 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGroupcall LimitedPE Passport

Customer experience

Emerge

Written reviews13 reviews
Positive46.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative53.8%

PE Passport

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Emerge

No in-app purchases

None

PE Passport

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Emerge free?
Emerge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PE Passport free?
PE Passport is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Emerge or PE Passport have ads?
Neither Emerge nor PE Passport shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Emerge or PE Passport?
Emerge ships an update every 2 months, and PE Passport every 6 weeks. Most recently, Emerge was updated on November 6, 2026 and PE Passport on November 1, 2026.

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