ParentPlus vs YoungWonks Parent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ParentPlus
Access your child's academic information, including grades, attendance, and homework, from anywhere. Stay informed about school announcements, alerts, and events to foster a strong school-family connection.
- View grades and scores
- Track attendance
- Access homework assignments
- Check child's schedule
- Monitor discipline records
- Receive school announcements and alerts
- Combined school calendar
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ParentPlus gives you secure, mobile access to your child's grades, scores, attendance, schedule, discipline record and homework. Parents can also access school announcements, alerts and combined calendar. ParentPlus creates a strong connection between your school and family by sharing information that is critical to your child's success and learning.
YoungWonks Parent
Facilitates communication between parents and educators. Parents can receive updates on assignments, lessons, student behavior, and school events. The app also allows for message exchange and consent management.
- Receive announcements and assignments
- Track lessons and student feedback
- Manage consents and signups
- View student behavior reports
- Exchange messages with teachers
- Access multimedia content
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Parent App is an app for parents for seamless communication with teachers and school administrators. The app allows parents to receive announcements, assignments, lessons, consents, student-feedback, messages, events, signups, student-behavior and multimedia content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: YoungWonks Parent at 5.0 against ParentPlus's 1.7. YoungWonks Parent also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). ParentPlus's advantage is ratings volume (266 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
YoungWonks Parent holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ParentPlus has 266 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ParentPlus ships an update every 5 months, YoungWonks Parent every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | ParentPlus | YoungWonks Parent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (266 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 266 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rediker Software, Inc. | WONKSKNOW LLC |
Customer experience
ParentPlus
YoungWonks Parent
Bugs and requests
ParentPlus
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes immediately after login
- Login credentials rejected despite working on website
- White/blank screen on app launch
- App freezes and requires force quit
- Continuous logout without user action
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- App stuck on loading screen indefinitely
- Switches to first student's grades when viewing multiple children
- Password reset times out or fails
- School name not recognized despite correct input
- Incompatibility with iOS 16.6 and iPhone 13 Pro
- Black screen on startup
- Email interface keyboard blocks input area
- App not sized properly for iPad despite support claim
- Calendar sync failures with iPhone X
- Invalid credentials error on app but not on website
Requested features
9 requests- Touch ID/biometric authentication
- Push notifications for new assignments and grades
- iPad-specific optimized version
- Remember login credentials properly
- Auto-correct in email composition
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- Ability to add child photos in app
- Descending order for quarters/semesters (current first)
- Improved multi-child account management
- Scrollable email header for better composition
YoungWonks Parent
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ParentPlus
No in-app purchases
YoungWonks Parent
No in-app purchases
Questions
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