Comparison

d6 School Communicator vs Curriculum for Scotland

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

Head to head
About

d6 School Communicator

This application streamlines communication between schools and parents. It provides essential information at your fingertips, allowing you to personalize the content you receive for the most relevant updates.

Highlights
  • Streamlined school-parent communication
  • Essential information access
  • Personalized content delivery
  • Real-time updates
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The d6 School Communicator is a stand-alone application designed to simplify school-parent communication. The d6 School Communicator includes all the information an engaged parent would need at the touch of a button. You may personalise the information you would like to receive, giving you the latest information relevant to you.

About

Curriculum for Scotland

Access the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence Experiences and Outcomes easily on your device. This app simplifies finding educational content for staff, parents, and pupils, reducing the need for physical documents.

Highlights
  • Easy access to Curriculum for Excellence
  • Content from Education Scotland Website
  • Reduces need for physical documents
  • Useful for teachers, parents, and pupils
  • Aids in planning and cross-curricular themes
Features
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Over the past few years the Scottish Curriculum underwent a major change. One of those changes was the introduction of the Curriculum for Excellence. This has normally been accessed through a Word or PDF document or through a folder located in the classroom. The Curriculum for Excellence App makes accessing the Curriculum for Excellence Experiences and Outcomes easier for Staff, parents and pupils directly on their devices. The use of this App will allow those interested in accessing the Scottish 3-18 Curriculum with ease. Content has been assembled from the Education Scotland Website, and once installed requires no access to the internet to be used. As a Teacher myself, I found it difficult to access the information readily in a meeting or general discussion while in school or away at a training day. Either I had to lug about the Experiences and Outcomes folder all the time or be left without it at critical moments in meetings and discussions. Equally, while planning and trying to match up cross-curricular themes, the folder made the task more difficult due to the size of it. When a meeting was scheduled, Experiences and Outcomes were printed so everyone had a copy for the discussion. I set about creating something we could all access and use, while at the same time reducing unnecessary printing and additional costs. The Curriculum for Excellence app will sit quietly in your phone and should you require to access an E and O at a point in a meeting, or check its relation during an in-service day or educational talk, then this will make it easier to stay focused on what is being discussed and not be thinking about where your folder is later on. Please come back and rate this app once you have used it. I know it seems so petty, but this helps other teachers, interested bodies, parents and pupils find it and use it. Even a small like will help out a great deal. I have tried my best to make the Curriculum for Excellence app as simple to access as possible and for it to be accessible to as many IOS devices I am able, knowing that technology is moving faster than we are able to purchase gadgets and tech. With that in mind, if you have a suggestion, concern or complaint, please get in touch and let me know so I can try to develop it, fix it or address it. Thank you for your support. (The developer has no affiliation with Education Scotland.)

Screenshots

d6 School Communicator4 screens
Curriculum for Scotland4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: d6 School Communicator at Free against Curriculum for Scotland's $0.99. d6 School Communicator also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months). Curriculum for Scotland's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (50% vs 40%). On 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

d6 School Communicator is free to download; Curriculum for Scotland costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

d6 School Communicator holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: d6 School Communicator has 105 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of d6 School Communicator's written reviews are positive against 50% of Curriculum for Scotland's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

d6 School Communicator ships an update monthly, Curriculum for Scotland every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
d6 School Communicator versus Curriculum for Scotland: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterd6 School CommunicatorCurriculum for Scotland
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (105 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews39.5% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings105 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB20 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerd6 group (Pty) LtdMaurice Randall

Customer experience

d6 School Communicator

All ratings105 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral2.9%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive39.5%
Neutral9.3%
Negative51.2%

Curriculum for Scotland

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

d6 School Communicator

Reported bugs

90 issues
  • Forms not submitting or showing completed status
  • App hangs when submitting forms
  • New messages not showing
  • Message not found error
  • Documents exiting out or opening blank pages
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  • Connectivity issues, stating not connected to internet
  • Failure to capture responses on forms
  • Repeated submissions not captured
  • App crashes
  • App resets and cannot redownload
  • App not working after updates
  • App stuck on wrong region
  • Cannot select school
  • Notifications not working
  • Forgot school after update
  • Update has no categories
  • No search bar in new version
  • Old communication not cleared
  • App not working as intended
  • App not working after email/OTP update
  • App not working on iPhone 11
  • Layout not optimized for modern phones
  • Notifications don't work
  • Login required, skip option doesn't work
  • Not connecting to Internet
  • Appallingly useless, no notifications received
  • Glitching, says not connected to internet
  • Calendar crashes
  • Personalize > subscribed channels crashes
  • App froze when choosing channels
  • Freezes all the time
  • Skip button does not work
  • New version problem, blank page on news feed
  • Lost all school stuff after update
  • Cannot reload school stuff
  • Menus not indented
  • Cannot filter by relevance
  • Useless, doesn't work on iPhone
  • Doesn't filter by choices
  • Completely blank, no schools listed
  • Lots of missing features
  • Flaky
  • App crashes on opening
  • App crashes at startup
  • Servers aren't connecting
  • Nothing is saving
  • App doesn't update
  • Fails to update content
  • Registration fails
  • Installation on Mac OS impossible
  • App won't open
  • Crashes after opening
  • Servers unavailable
  • Crashes in loops
  • App is terrible, doesn't work properly
  • New design not good
  • Difficult to find the right info
  • App doesn't even open
  • Crashes and doesn't update/work
  • Doesn't download
  • Nothing updated prior to most recent update
  • App requires login, skip doesn't work
  • Error - not connecting to Internet
  • Glitch, keeps saying not connected to internet
  • Calendar crashes without fail
  • App crashes when calendar is selected
  • App crashed when going to personalize > subscribed channels
  • No option for UAE
  • School feed won't load
  • App crashes on opening
  • Glitching out when opening
  • Shuts off after a second or two
  • Always not working
  • Works very infrequently
  • Does not update with latest news
  • Broken, not tested
  • Fails to update content
  • New version problem, cannot see picture gallery, no new calendar
  • Application closes automatically when opening calendar
  • New version bringing up a blank page on news feed
  • Lost all school stuff and cannot reload
  • Menus not indented or organized into submenus
  • Cannot filter information by relevance
  • Doesn't work on iPhone/iPad, constantly have to delete and reinstall
  • App is completely blank, no schools listed and no data
  • App freezes when choosing channels
  • App freezes all the time
  • Desktop version is much better
  • Homework should be filtered according to subscription choice
  • Private download schools not supported

Requested features

18 requests
  • Option to remove ads
  • Dark mode
  • Mark all messages as read
  • Delete old notifications
  • Filter notifications by class
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  • Better organization of resources
  • Search bar in new version
  • Option to archive old messages
  • Option to delete irrelevant messages
  • Improved filtering and customization
  • Push notifications for all messages
  • Integration with Google Calendar
  • Admin management tools for parent groups
  • iPad version
  • Submenu system for menus
  • Filter information by relevance
  • Option to add to calendar without closing
  • More than one security guard on duty

Curriculum for Scotland

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

d6 School Communicator

No in-app purchases

None

Curriculum for Scotland

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is d6 School Communicator free?
d6 School Communicator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Curriculum for Scotland free?
Curriculum for Scotland costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, d6 School Communicator or Curriculum for Scotland?
d6 School Communicator is rated higher. d6 School Communicator averages 4.5 out of 5 from 105 ratings, while Curriculum for Scotland averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do d6 School Communicator or Curriculum for Scotland have ads?
d6 School Communicator shows ads; Curriculum for Scotland does not.
Which is updated more often, d6 School Communicator or Curriculum for Scotland?
d6 School Communicator ships an update monthly, and Curriculum for Scotland every 6 months. Most recently, d6 School Communicator was updated on November 1, 2026 and Curriculum for Scotland on November 6, 2026.

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