Comparison

School Gateway vs Parent Hub

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

Head to head
About

School Gateway

This app streamlines communication and management of your child's school life. It allows parents to receive messages, make payments for school items, manage dinner money, book clubs, and view academic reports and attendance. All your children's school information is consolidated in one place.

Highlights
  • Receive school messages
  • Make school payments
  • Manage dinner money
  • Book school clubs
  • View reports and timetable
  • Monitor attendance
  • Update contact details
Read full description

School Gateway, the easiest way to interact with your child’s life at school. Designed to support schools in achieving outstanding parental engagement, School Gateway helps you manage school communications, payments, clubs, dinner money and more all in one simple, easy to use app. Key features: • Receive push notifications and in-app messages from your school • Easily pay for items using your preferred payment method • Top-up your child’s dinner money and select meal choices • Book before and after school clubs • View your child’s timetable and end of year reports • Monitor attendance • Update the contact details your school hold for you • All your children across multiple schools in one account Things you need to know: • Your school must be subscribed to School Gateway before you can use this app • Your school controls the information shared with you • To register/login, your school must have your email address and phone number on their system. If you can’t log in, please check these details are up to date at your school • Your account will automatically display information for multiple children /schools as long as the schools use School Gateway. Please check that your email address and mobile number at all your schools match • You must turn on push notifications for the app to receive messages and updates from your school

About

Parent Hub

Stay informed about your child's school activities with instant updates, photos, and important letters. Connect directly to school or class channels to receive timely information.

Highlights
  • Receive school updates
  • Subscribe to class channels
  • View pictures
  • Access letters and documents
  • Connect with schools
Features
Read full description

Parent Hub helps to keep you up to date with all the great things your children are doing at school. Add a school or subscribe to class channels for quick updates, pictures, letters and more. All you need is a school handle from your child's school or a channel code from one of their teachers. It's not a problem if your child's school isn't using Parent Hub yet as it's free for them too. Just send them a link to our website and they can sign themselves up in no time at all. We'd love to know what you think of our app so please get in touch on hello@parenthub.co.uk.

Screenshots

School Gateway4 screens
Parent Hub4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Parent Hub at free against School Gateway's ad-supported. On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, Parent Hub every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
School Gateway versus Parent Hub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool GatewayParent Hub
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.7% of reviews15.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISUZ LimitedNexus Software Platforms Ltd

Customer experience

School Gateway

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral15.7%
Negative68.5%

Parent Hub

Written reviews51 reviews
Positive15.7%
Neutral3.9%
Negative80.4%

In-app purchases

None

School Gateway

No in-app purchases

None

Parent Hub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Gateway free?
School Gateway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parent Hub free?
Parent Hub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do School Gateway or Parent Hub have ads?
Neither School Gateway nor Parent Hub shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Gateway or Parent Hub?
School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, and Parent Hub every 2 months. Most recently, School Gateway was updated on September 24, 2026 and Parent Hub on September 19, 2026.

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