Comparison

ParentPlus vs Tommy Emotions

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • View grades and scores
  • Track attendance
  • Access homework assignments
  • Check child's schedule
  • Monitor discipline records
  • Receive school announcements and alerts
  • Combined school calendar
Features
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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.

About

Tommy Emotions

This app helps children develop emotional intelligence through daily check-ins, interactive games, and personalized activities. It features engaging characters and rewards to keep kids motivated, with parent insights to track progress. Designed for ages 4 and up, it offers an ad-free experience.

Highlights
  • Daily emotional check-ins
  • Interactive learning activities
  • Personalized weekly plans
  • Engaging characters
  • Gamification and rewards
  • Parent insights and analytics
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Big feelings, small steps. Tommy the turtle and his nine friends help your child name what they feel and practice finding calm, with breathing exercises, story worlds, feelings games and small brave missions. Activities, stories and Tommy's voice are recorded in English and in Spanish, not only the menus. Made by a family, with no ads. A DAY WITH TOMMY • Feelings check-in: your child taps the face that matches how they feel, and Tommy suggests an activity for that emotion. • A new 7-day plan every week, sized to the time your family has. • Smart Journeys: guided paths, stage by stage, to come back to over several days. THREE ROOMS • Adventures: a road your child walks with Tommy, camp by camp, with every journey they have started waiting on the page. • Listen: a room for each friend — stories, music and calm audio, with one player that keeps going while your child moves around the app. • Activities: every world in one place, the next thing to do one tap away. WHAT'S INSIDE • Breathing exercises for children: breathe with a balloon, a dragon or the ocean, with animated guides that slow down with your child. Breathing is free. • Stories read aloud: each story opens in a world of its own, and some let your child choose what happens next. • Feelings games: memory, fishing, sorting and more, each one about emotions. • Movement: dance, poses and animal moves to shake out big energy and calm down after. • Mindfulness for kids: a rainbow relaxation, sounds to notice, a body scan. • Create: draw your feelings. • Missions: small brave things to try in real life. TEN FRIENDS Tommy, Sally, Luka, Sophie, Diego, Penny, Luna, Ricky, Maya and Rocco. ENGLISH AND SPANISH Switch language in Settings at any time. Bilingual families use both, and a child can hear a story they know in the other language. BRIGHT BY DAY, CALM BY NIGHT Tommy's world follows the clock: bright in the day, a calm dusk in the evening, so the last activity before bed feels like the end of the day. You can pick day or night for each child. MADE FOR PHONES AND TABLETS On a tablet, Tommy's world uses the whole big screen, in landscape and portrait. FOR PARENTS • Social-emotional learning for ages 3-5, 6-8 and 9+. The age changes the words and the pace, never what your child may open. • A profile for each child and a parent area behind a grown-up check. • No ads, no chat. • Breathing activities are free. A subscription (monthly or yearly) opens every story, game and activity; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Questions? Write to info@tommyemotions.com. We are a small family company and we read every message.

Screenshots

ParentPlus4 screens
Tommy Emotions4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tommy Emotions at 100% against ParentPlus's 6%. Tommy Emotions also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months). ParentPlus's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (266 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tommy Emotions sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. ParentPlus asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tommy Emotions 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 1, 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 Tommy Emotions's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ParentPlus ships an update every 5 months, Tommy Emotions every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ParentPlus versus Tommy Emotions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParentPlusTommy Emotions
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (266 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews6.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings266 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB186 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRediker Software, Inc.Tommy Emotions LLC

Customer experience

ParentPlus

All ratings254 ratings
Positive15.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative81.5%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive6.1%
Neutral4.9%
Negative89.0%

Tommy Emotions

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Tommy Emotions

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ParentPlus

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Tommy Emotions

Subscriptions4
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Family Monthly7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$79.991 Year
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  • Family Yearly7 Days trial$119.991 Year

Questions

Is ParentPlus free?
ParentPlus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tommy Emotions free?
Tommy Emotions is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ParentPlus or Tommy Emotions?
Tommy Emotions is rated higher. ParentPlus averages 1.7 out of 5 from 266 ratings, while Tommy Emotions averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ParentPlus or Tommy Emotions have ads?
Neither ParentPlus nor Tommy Emotions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ParentPlus or Tommy Emotions?
ParentPlus ships an update every 5 months, and Tommy Emotions every 10 days. Most recently, ParentPlus was updated on October 21, 2026 and Tommy Emotions on October 28, 2026.

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