Contacts Grouping Lite vs School Update
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contacts Grouping Lite
Organize your contacts into custom groups with this intuitive app. Automatically categorize contacts by company name or create your own groups. Easily manage, search, and communicate with your contact lists.
- Automatic grouping by company name
- Custom group creation, editing, and deletion
- Single contact management
- Contact search functionality
- Email all group members
- SMS/text all group members (iPhone only)
- Customizable group sorting and color
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Contacts Grouping is the most popular contact management software with easy-to-use. Features 1. Contact could be gathered in the groups automatically by company names. 2. Groups could be created, edited, or deleted freely. 3. You could also create, delete, and edit a single contact. 4. It support to search for contacts 5. And send email to all group members 6. Fantastic respond speed 7. Support to send sms/text to all group members(just for iPhone) 8.You could change the group's sort 9.You could change the group's color Mark: English,Japanese,Chinese versions are available. By downloading or using this app, you agree to Apple's standard Terms of Use. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
School Update
Facilitates seamless communication between teachers, parents, and students. Organizes homework, events, and absences, while enabling quick information sharing and emergency alerts.
- Messaging with translation
- Emergency alerts
- Absence reporting
- Homework sharing
- Parent-teacher meeting scheduling
- Information exchange
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The secure and smart communication solution for schools - available as a web application and as a mobile app! SchoolUpdate for smartphone and PC, as a mobile app and web application with one goal: to make (school) life less complicated. Reduced organizational effort and simple exchange between teachers, parents, and students! SchoolUpdate wants to help bring things together easier. For Parents and pupils: Look things up anytime and anywhere: homework, school events, all information from the teachers. For Teachers and school administrators: quickly share and document information. Structure classes, invite parents to parent-teacher-days, neatly collect absences of students, and much more. The most relevant features of SchoolUpdate briefly: Messaging: send and collect information, with translation functionality and read confirmation. Emergencies: Receive emergency messages via multiple channels (app, SMS, ...). Absences: report and document absences. Homework: share and view homework. Recommendations: arrange and follow links and tips. Parent-Teacher-Day: set up discussions, assign appointments and take part in parents' talks. To use the mobile app, you must first have received a login code from your organization for one-time registration in the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Contacts Grouping Lite at 4.7 against School Update's 1.0. Contacts Grouping Lite also leads on ratings volume (69 vs 2). School Update's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Contacts Grouping Lite sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. School Update asks for nothing beyond the download.
Contacts Grouping Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contacts Grouping Lite has 69 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Contacts Grouping Lite ships an update every 2 months, School Update every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts Grouping Lite | School Update |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (69 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EJing | bit media education solutions GmbH |
Customer experience
Contacts Grouping Lite
School Update
In-app purchases
Contacts Grouping Lite
- Remove Ads$0.991 Month
School Update
No in-app purchases
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