Comparison

School Gateway vs Satchel 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
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

Satchel One

This app provides a comprehensive learning platform for students, teachers, and parents. It facilitates homework management, timetable access, behavior tracking, and communication between all parties. Stay organized and informed about academic progress and school activities.

Highlights
  • Set, grade, and comment on homework
  • Access timetables
  • Track homework to-do lists
  • Submit work online
  • View school events and announcements
  • Monitor behavior points and detentions
Features
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Satchel One for iOS allows you to access our learning platform on the go. Since launching Show My Homework in 2011, we’ve been proud to call 1 in 3 UK secondary schools our partners, and we still are. Since our inception, we’ve expanded our award-winning software into a number of additional apps to create Satchel One, our learning platform. Today, Satchel One is home to Show My Homework, Content, Timetables, Behaviour, Seating, Attendance and Detentions apps. Benefits for teachers: - Set, grade and comment on homework - Assign Behaviour points and award Badges - Easily access your timetables - Receive notifications for student submissions and comments Benefits for students: - Keep track of homework using your To-do List - Easily access your timetables - Receive feedback and leave comments for your teachers - Submit your work online, take spelling tests and quizzes - View school events and announcements - View your Behaviour points, attendance, and detentions Benefits for parents: - Keep track of all your children's To-do Lists in one place - View quiz and spelling test results - View student and teacher comments - View school events and announcements - Monitor Behaviour points, attendance, and detentions Be sure to read our Terms of Use and Privacy Notice: Terms of Use: https://www.teamsatchel.com/legals/terms.html Privacy Notice: https://www.teamsatchel.com/legals/privacy_notice.html

Screenshots

School Gateway4 screens
Satchel One4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Satchel One at 64% against School Gateway's 16%. Satchel One also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.5) and ratings volume (379 vs 2). School Gateway's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Satchel One sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. School Gateway asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Satchel One holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Satchel One has 379 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of School Gateway's written reviews are positive against 64% of Satchel One's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, Satchel One every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
School Gateway versus Satchel One: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool GatewaySatchel One
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)3.7 (379 ratings) — better
Positive reviews15.7% of reviews64.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2379 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISUZ LimitedTeacherCentric Ltd

Customer experience

School Gateway

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

Satchel One

All ratings379 ratings
Positive67.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative29.3%
Written reviews2,393 reviews
Positive64.4%
Neutral4.9%
Negative30.7%

Bugs and requests

School Gateway

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Satchel One

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Homework not showing up or disappearing
  • Login issues and password reset problems
  • Syncing issues between app and website version

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to customize profile picture
  • Option to filter homework by due date
  • Improved parent-teacher communication features
  • Integration with calendar app for better organization
  • Offline mode for accessing homework details

In-app purchases

None

School Gateway

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Satchel One

Subscriptions3
  • Satchel One Plus - Extra7 Days trial2 variants$1.991 Month
  • Satchel One Plus - Extra7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Satchel One Plus - Family7 Days trial$5.491 Month
One-time7
  • Ebook National 5 Business Man.$1.99
  • Ebook National 5 Design & Man.$1.99
  • Ebook National 5 French$1.99
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  • Revision ebook GCSE Geography$2.99
  • Ebook GCSE Maths Higher$2.99
  • Ebook GCSE English Lang & Lit$2.99
  • Revision ebook GCSE Chemistry$2.99

Questions

Is School Gateway free?
School Gateway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Satchel One free?
Satchel One is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, School Gateway or Satchel One?
Satchel One is rated higher. School Gateway averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Satchel One averages 3.7 from 379 ratings.
Do School Gateway or Satchel One have ads?
Neither School Gateway nor Satchel One shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Gateway or Satchel One?
School Gateway ships an update every 6 weeks, and Satchel One every 4 weeks. Most recently, School Gateway was updated on September 24, 2026 and Satchel One on September 24, 2026.

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