ParentPlus vs Mount Carmel Academy
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.
Mount Carmel Academy
This app centralizes school news, announcements, media, and event information for parents, students, and faculty. It offers easy access to a faculty directory, social media links, and athletic event details, all formatted for mobile devices.
- News and announcements
- Media gallery (photos, videos, documents)
- Event calendar with filtering
- Faculty directory
- Social media links
- Athletic event details
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The Mount Carmel Academy App provides parents, students, and faculty members with all the information they need in one place, conveniently accessed and formatted specifically for consumption on their mobile devices. The app includes: ● News and announcements ● Pictures, videos, and documents ● Calendar events ● Social media links ● Faculty directory and more Download the app today to ensure you are always aware of important announcements and calendar events, and have access on-the-go to the most current news. Users are able to: ● Browse the latest published photos and videos ● Filter content and store those preferences for subsequent use ● Catch up on current news ● Review athletic event details, including opponents, game results, recap commentaries, and more ● Browse calendars for information about upcoming events. Filtering calendars to see the events most relevant to their interests. ● Email a faculty member directly from your email apps ● Link to MCA’s social media pages, opening in their device’s browser or directly in the social media platform’s app The information presented in the Finalsite app is drawn from the same source as the Mount Carmel Academy website. Privacy controls restrict sensitive information only to authorized users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mount Carmel Academy at 100% against ParentPlus's 6%. Mount Carmel Academy also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.7). ParentPlus's advantage is ratings volume (266 vs 21). On price, update cadence, 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.
Mount Carmel Academy holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ParentPlus has 266 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of ParentPlus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mount Carmel Academy's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | ParentPlus | Mount Carmel Academy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (266 ratings) | 4.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 6.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 266 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rediker Software, Inc. | Mount Carmel Academy |
Customer experience
ParentPlus
Mount Carmel Academy
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
Mount Carmel Academy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ParentPlus
No in-app purchases
Mount Carmel Academy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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