Comparison

School Gateway vs Pupil Progress App

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

Pupil Progress App

This app provides parents and students with clear, detailed updates on educational attainment and progress. It facilitates improved home-school communication and empowers parents to take an active role in their child's education. Access academic data conveniently from your smartphone.

Highlights
  • Detailed educational attainment updates
  • Real-time progress tracking
  • Convenient smartphone access
  • Empowers parents in education
  • Improved home-school communication
  • Exclusive to schools using the platform
Features
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The Pupil Progress App is the next big leap forward in empowering parents with clear and detailed information about students educational attainment and progress, right at your fingertips in a smartphone app. * Clear and Detailed Information: Get clear, detailed updates on educational attainment and progress. * Convenient Student Access: Access your academic data anytime, anywhere, from your smartphone. * Empowering Parents: Take an active role in your children's education and make informed decisions. * Improved Communication: Stay connected with real-time updates and foster a stronger home-school partnership. * For School using Pupil Progress: Exclusively available to students in schools using the Pupil Progress core platform. Pupil Progress App can only be used by students and the parents of students at schools who use the Pupil Progress core platform. Contact your school to find out if this is the case for your child's school. If the school does not use Pupil Progress currently, please encourage them to take a look at https://www.pupilprogress.com and contact the team at info@pupilprogress.com to find out more.

Screenshots

School Gateway4 screens
Pupil Progress App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: School Gateway at every 6 weeks against Pupil Progress App's every 6 months. School Gateway also leads on review sentiment (16% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Pupil Progress App's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ads, 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

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, Pupil Progress App every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
School Gateway versus Pupil Progress App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool GatewayPupil Progress App
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.7% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISUZ LimitedPupil Progress Ltd

Customer experience

School Gateway

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

Pupil Progress App

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

School Gateway

No in-app purchases

None

Pupil Progress App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Gateway free?
School Gateway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pupil Progress App free?
Pupil Progress App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do School Gateway or Pupil Progress App have ads?
Neither School Gateway nor Pupil Progress App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Gateway or Pupil Progress App?
School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pupil Progress App every 6 months. Most recently, School Gateway was updated on October 3, 2026 and Pupil Progress App on October 1, 2026.

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