Light School vs IEA School
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Light School
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The Light School is the official school management app that connects students, parents, instructors, and administrators in one secure, easy-to-use platform. WHAT YOU CAN DO For Students • View your class schedule, exams, and upcoming assignments • Submit homework with photos, documents, and videos • Track grades, attendance, and instructor feedback in real time • Chat with classmates and teachers • Receive instant notifications for new assignments, announcements, and grades For Parents • Follow your child's attendance, grades, and progress • Communicate directly with teachers and school staff • View school announcements and events • Pay tuition and school fees securely For Instructors • Manage classes, assignments, and exam grading • Take attendance in seconds • Share course materials, files, and announcements • Message students and parents For School Administrators • Manage students, classes, schedules, and staff • Send school-wide announcements and notifications • Monitor activity across the school KEY FEATURES • Bilingual interface (English and Arabic) with full right-to-left support • Secure sign-in with Face ID • Real-time chat and notifications • Offline-friendly: see your latest data even with patchy internet • Built for schools of every size PRIVACY & SECURITY The Light School is built with student privacy in mind. Your data is encrypted in transit, stored on secure servers, and only ever shared within your school community. We never sell your information to third parties. ABOUT The Light School is developed by Cog Developers for the Light School in Iraq and partner schools across the region. Need help? Contact your school administrator or email support@lightschool-iq.com.
IEA School
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IEA School is the mobile companion for schools and independent tutors that already run their schedule, homework and grades through the IEA School platform. It's built for three kinds of people: students, parents and teachers. Sign in with the account your school or tutor has already created for you — there is nothing to set up on your own. For students, the app opens on a weekly schedule where past lessons sort themselves out of the way and the "Join" button for a video lesson appears automatically a few minutes before class starts, no need to go looking for a link. Homework shows its current status and grade as soon as a teacher marks it, so there's no waiting for a report card to find out how you did. A diary keeps every grade in one place, and a small calendar shows school holidays and days off ahead of time. For parents, the app gives a read-only window into a child's school life: their schedule, their grades, their homework — nothing more, and nothing that belongs to another family. Parents with more than one child, including children enrolled at different schools or with different tutors, switch between them from the same account instead of juggling separate logins. For teachers, the app shows the day's own agenda, lets attendance be marked lesson by lesson right after class, and sends a reminder five minutes before each lesson starts — useful on a day with several lessons back to back. Across every role, push notifications arrive the moment something relevant happens — a new grade, a lesson that got moved, a homework deadline coming up — and stay in a notification history that can be revisited at any time, with swipe-to-dismiss. The app works fully in English, Spanish, Russian and Ukrainian, and lets each person choose whether their week starts on Monday or Sunday independently of the app's language. A biometric quick-unlock (Face ID / Touch ID / fingerprint) keeps the account secure without retyping a password every time the app is opened. Every school or tutor using IEA School manages its own students, staff and schedule independently — this app simply gives everyone on that team a window into it from their phone, wherever they are. An account here only works if your school or tutor already uses IEA School to run their classes; if you're not sure, ask them first.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Light School at 15.0 against IEA School's 17.0. 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.
Light School ships an update every 5 days, IEA School every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Light School | IEA School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CogDevelopers | Mikhail Shmarov |
In-app purchases
Light School
No in-app purchases
IEA School
No in-app purchases





