School Gateway vs Snoory
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
Snoory
Create personalized AI bedtime stories for children, featuring their name, favorite characters, and chosen lessons. Enjoy cinema-quality voices, unique AI-generated art, and stories that build on past adventures. Available in English and Spanish, with a focus on gentle, age-appropriate themes.
- Personalized stories with child's name
- Favorite characters and chosen themes
- Cinema-quality distinct character voices
- AI-generated cover art
- Stories build on past adventures
- Bilingual (English/Spanish)
- Teaches values like kindness and courage
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Snoory creates personalised AI bedtime stories for your child, starring them by name, with their favourite characters and a lesson you choose. Every story features cinema-quality voices where each character sounds completely unique, AI-generated cover art, and gentle themes designed to calm and inspire. Stories remember past adventures and build on them night after night. PERSONALISED FOR YOUR CHILD Every story stars your child by name, shaped around their age, favourite characters and the world you choose, from enchanted forests to magic schools. CINEMA-QUALITY VOICES Dragons sound nothing like fairies. Robots sound nothing like princesses. Every character has their own distinct, warm voice. TEACHES VALUES Every adventure is built around a lesson (kindness, honesty, courage, friendship) woven naturally so children absorb what matters most. STORY MEMORY Snoory remembers past adventures and favourite characters so each new story feels like a continuation of something your child already loves. BILINGUAL Full stories in British English or Latin American Spanish. Perfect for bilingual families and heritage language learning. SAFE AND AD-FREE No ads. No data sold. Every story filtered for gentle, age-appropriate bedtime themes. SNOORY PREMIUM Snoory Premium unlocks all features. Choose a monthly or yearly plan, each with a 7-day free trial (up to 7 stories during the trial). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at the end of the trial unless cancelled at least 24 hours before. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://snoory.co.uk/terms Privacy Policy: https://snoory.co.uk/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Snoory at 100% against School Gateway's 16%. Snoory also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). School Gateway's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Snoory sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. School Gateway asks for nothing beyond the download.
Snoory holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of School Gateway's written reviews are positive against 100% of Snoory's.
School Gateway ships an update every 2 months, Snoory every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Gateway | Snoory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 222 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ISUZ Limited | Troy Gutierrez |
Customer experience
School Gateway
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In-app purchases
School Gateway
No in-app purchases
Snoory
- Snoory Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Snoory Premium7 Days trial$59.991 Year
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