Comparison

School Gateway vs EduLink One

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
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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

EduLink One

This app facilitates seamless collaboration between teachers, parents, and students within a school environment. It streamlines administrative tasks, enhances engagement, and provides access to crucial student information like attendance, timetables, and behavior records.

Highlights
  • Teacher registration and marksheets
  • Parent-teacher messaging
  • Student attendance tracking
  • Timetable and homework management
  • Behavior and achievement monitoring
  • Parent-teacher evening booking
  • Cashless catering balance view
Features
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Edulink One is a powerful new whole school solution designed for teachers, parents and students to effectively collaborate in a user-friendly mobile and web app. It reduces administration and improves engagement and student outcomes. At their fingertips, teachers can take registration and complete marksheets and behaviour. All users have access to messaging (via text, email or push notification), attendance, timetables, achievement, behaviour, homework, exams, student reports, medical and contact information, and more - all configurable to accommodate your school's needs. Manage and book parents' evenings, view cashless catering balances, share resources and collect information using forms.

Screenshots

School Gateway4 screens
EduLink One4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: EduLink One at 4.3 against School Gateway's 2.5. EduLink One also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). School Gateway's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

EduLink One holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of School Gateway's written reviews are positive against 19% of EduLink One's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, EduLink One monthly. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
School Gateway versus EduLink One: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool GatewayEduLink One
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.7% of reviews19.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISUZ LimitedOvernet Data

Customer experience

School Gateway

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

EduLink One

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews150 reviews
Positive19.3%
Neutral8.0%
Negative72.7%

Bugs and requests

School Gateway

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

EduLink One

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Login fails despite correct credentials
  • Homework content displays only half the screen
  • Cannot close homework popups without reloading app
  • Behavior points show as 'NaN' instead of numbers
  • Achievement points don't sync properly with notifications
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  • Catering tab inaccessible for weeks
  • Back button takes users to home instead of previous page
  • Messages display unopened when already read
  • App logs out when opening messages
  • Timetable display shows wrong day (e.g., shows Tuesday when on Monday)
  • Password reset required every login despite saved credentials
  • Notifications arrive too late or not at all
  • Exam timetable information missing or incorrect
  • Servers frequently down or unavailable
  • App crashes when checking homework frequently
  • Links to external systems (iPayImpact) are clunky and slow
  • No data loads in areas of poor connectivity

Requested features

14 requests
  • Implement Face ID or biometric authentication
  • Add ability to stay logged in persistently
  • Enable password saving functionality
  • Add adjustable font size settings
  • Implement offline data caching
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  • Add dark mode option
  • Create widget for quick timetable access
  • Add search functionality across app
  • Include ability to mark homework as handed in directly
  • Show behavior point deduction details with explanations
  • Add catering/meal balance information
  • Improve back button navigation
  • Reduce data consumption requirements
  • Add direct teacher contact/messaging feature

In-app purchases

None

School Gateway

No in-app purchases

None

EduLink One

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Gateway free?
School Gateway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is EduLink One free?
EduLink One is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, School Gateway or EduLink One?
EduLink One is rated higher. School Gateway averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while EduLink One averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do School Gateway or EduLink One have ads?
Neither School Gateway nor EduLink One shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Gateway or EduLink One?
School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, and EduLink One monthly. Most recently, School Gateway was updated on September 24, 2026 and EduLink One on September 24, 2026.

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