Studybugs vs Badger Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Studybugs
Easily report your child's absence from school with a few taps. This app automatically updates school registers, enhances safeguarding through identity verification, and offers guidance on illnesses. It also reminds you to keep the school informed.
- Report child's absence
- Automatic register updates
- Identity verification
- Illness guidance
- Absence reminders
- Website access for illness map
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A better, safer way to report when your child’s sick and off school. With a few quick taps, you can give the school all they need to know to record your child’s absence. • Automatically updates the school’s electronic registers, so if any children are unaccounted for, they’ll know right away • Improves safeguarding by enabling your identity to be verified • Provides guidance about your child’s illness and whether they should be kept off school • Reminds you to keep the school posted When you first sign in, we’ll automatically create you a free account on Studybugs and you’ll also have access to additional features on the Studybugs website, including a map showing illnesses going around near you. Questions, problems or feedback? Get in touch at feedback@studybugs.com.
Badger Notes
Access your maternity, child, or neonatal health records in real-time. Information is updated directly from your hospital's system by your healthcare providers.
- Real-time record access
- Maternity records
- Child health records
- Neonatal records
- Hospital system integration
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Badger Notes allows you real time access to your maternity, child or neonatal records. The information that appears is generated in real-time from your hospital based system using details entered by your midwife or other health professionals involved in your care.
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Verdict
Studybugs and Badger Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studybugs | Badger Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (210 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.6% of reviews — better | 5.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 210 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Studybugs Ltd | Clevermed Ltd |
Customer experience
Studybugs
Badger Notes
In-app purchases
Studybugs
No in-app purchases
Badger Notes
No in-app purchases
