School Gateway vs Tapestry Education Platform
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Tapestry Education Platform
This platform connects educators, families, and children to support early childhood learning. It offers tools for observation, assessment, planning, and management to foster strong relationships and focus on each child's development.
- Connects educators, families, and children
- Supports EYFS and Key Stages 1 & 2
- Observation and assessment tools
- Planning and management features
- Nurtures relationships with families
- Empowers staff practice
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Connect educators, families, and children through Tapestry — the leading Childhood Education Platform trusted across EYFS and Key Stages 1 & 2, in both mainstream and SEND provision. Tapestry’s award-winning tools help you nurture meaningful relationships with families, empower staff to elevate their practice, and place each child’s learning journey at the heart of your provision. From observation and assessment to planning and management, Tapestry simplifies the day-to-day, so you can focus on what truly matters — happy children, happy families, and happy staff. Weave every child’s story with Tapestry. Learn more at tapestry.info.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tapestry Education Platform at free against School Gateway's ad-supported. Tapestry Education Platform also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). School Gateway's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, Tapestry Education Platform every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Gateway | Tapestry Education Platform |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 15.7% of reviews — better | 8.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ISUZ Limited | The FSF Ltd |
Customer experience
School Gateway
Tapestry Education Platform
In-app purchases
School Gateway
No in-app purchases
Tapestry Education Platform
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Do School Gateway or Tapestry Education Platform have ads?
Which is updated more often, School Gateway or Tapestry Education Platform?
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