Comparison

Parentloop vs Akhet

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

Head to head
About

Parentloop

Features
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Built by teacher-parents for teachers and school leaders to make communication easier. * Let parents know what's happening in the classroom. Share photos and videos with parents to keep them informed about the school and the students so they can help their children at home to support their growth. * Track What's Important Just with a simple tap on the screen, you can take attendance or log food consumption. It only takes 37 seconds on average for a class of 14 students. * Let parents know what's happening in the classroom. Share photos and videos with parents to keep them informed about the school and the students so they can help their children at home to support their growth. Our approach is simple: 1- We want to use a product that we would want to use ourselves. 2- We are teachers too. We experience the same pain of a parent and a teacher. Therefore, we bring our experience to the table to make a product that we love using. 3- We are parents too. We want to have an idea of what's happening at school at a glance so we can support our children at home as well. 4- We want you to see the big picture and make informed decisions as school leaders.

About

Akhet

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Akhet shows you today's date the way an Egyptian scribe would have written it, in real hieroglyphs, on the ancient civil calendar that drifted a whole turn against the sun. It is one dial you read by tapping. No menus, no clutter. A sundial tells the seasonal hour, your name sits in a cartouche at the top, the month and day read as three ruled columns, and the era year runs along the bottom. Tap anything and it explains itself. THE WANDERING YEAR Twelve months of thirty days across three seasons, Inundation, Emergence and Harvest, plus five days added at the year's end. Because the priesthood kept the sacred 365-day year and never adopted a leap day, the calendar slips against the sun by design, a full turn every 1461 years. Akhet computes exactly where in that turn today falls. THE SEASONAL HOURS The Egyptians split daylight into twelve hours and the night into twelve, so an hour stretched in summer and shrank in winter. Akhet's sundial mirrors the real sun where you stand: noon at the top, midnight at the bottom, the day arc widening through the year, a shadow marking the hour you are in. Sunrise and sunset are computed on your device, no server, no account. YOUR NAME IN A CARTOUCHE Write your name and Akhet spells it by sound, exactly as scribes wrote foreign rulers into cartouches. Where a letter can be voiced more than one way, you choose; silent letters can be dropped; and you can hear the reconstruction read aloud. Tap the famous royal names and Akhet shows how the monuments actually wrote them, the very spellings that let Champollion crack the script. LEARN AS DEEPLY AS YOU LIKE A source-critical reference to the whole system: the 24 sound-signs, how one sign can be a sound, a whole word, or a silent meaning-marker, the additive numerals, how to count in Egyptian with the number-words that still survive into Coptic, and an honest account of what is attested and what is only reconstructed. Everything is hedged where the record is uncertain, and cited to public scholarship. WEAR IT, PHARAOH MODE A single one-time purchase puts the living dial and your cartouche on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, and on the Apple Watch: a sundial hour complication, a wheel of the whole year, the date, and your name. Pharaoh mode also opens the full month-by-month library. Ask Siri "what's today in Akhet" and hear the reading spoken. Free to read today and to learn. No subscription, no account, no tracking, everything is computed on your device.

Screenshots

Parentloop4 screens
Akhet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Parentloop at none against Akhet's 1. Akhet's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 14 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Akhet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Parentloop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Parentloop ships an update every 14 months, Akhet every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Parentloop versus Akhet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParentloopAkhet
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 5 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch β€” better
Requires iOS17.6 β€” better18.6
Further details β€” not scored
Size87 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPus TeknolojiØyvind Berget

In-app purchases

None

Parentloop

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Akhet

One-time1
  • Pharaoh Mode$2.99

Questions

Is Parentloop free?
Parentloop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Akhet free?
Akhet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Parentloop or Akhet have ads?
Neither Parentloop nor Akhet shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Parentloop or Akhet?
Parentloop ships an update every 14 months, and Akhet every 5 days. Most recently, Parentloop was updated on October 11, 2026 and Akhet on October 9, 2026.

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