Compass School Manager vs Audiri
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Compass School Manager
Access school news, events, and assignments. Stay informed about your child's academic progress and school activities. Designed for seamless communication between school and home.
- School news updates
- Event calendars
- Assignment tracking
- Parent-teacher communication
- Student progress monitoring
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Compass School Manager provides access to school news, events, upcoming assignments and more. This application is designed for staff, students and parents.
Audiri
This app facilitates seamless communication between schools and their communities. It offers instant notices, event RSVPs, interview scheduling, in-app chat, eForms, newsletters, and payment processing.
- Instant notices
- RSVP events
- Parent Teacher Interview scheduling
- In-app chat and group messaging
- eForms
- School newsletters
- Payments
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Connect. Collaborate. Be heard. Audiri is a powerful communications tool that enables you to engage with your community with the touch of a button. Getting started is easy. Create your free account and login to add your school(s). Designed with simplicity in mind as the all-in-one communication solution for schools. It's one app for: * Instant notices * RSVP events * Parent Teacher Interview scheduling * In-app chat and group messaging * eForms * School newsletters * Important links & documents * Payments * Photos * and more Key features: * Add one or more schools to your app * Subscribe to specific groups relevant to you (e.g. Year 4, Band, P&C Updates) * Browse the event calendar and add events to your personal calendar * RSVP event and Parent Teacher Interview invitations * In-app chat and group messaging available to your school * Make payments for school fees, excursions and other events * View school newsletters * Important links to systems like parent portal, canteen and more * eForms - Absentee, Permission Slips, School Surveys and more
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Compass School Manager at 4.7 against Audiri's 3.5. Compass School Manager also leads on ratings volume (142 vs 25). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Compass School Manager holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Compass School Manager has 142 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of Compass School Manager's written reviews are positive against 30% of Audiri's.
Compass School Manager ships an update every 3 weeks, Audiri every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Compass School Manager | Audiri |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (142 ratings) — better | 3.5 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 35.4% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compass Operations Pty Ltd | SkoolBag |
Customer experience
Compass School Manager
Audiri
User reviews
Compass School Manager
From 142 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to navigate
- 👍 Convenient for school management
- 🚀 Helpful for students and parents
- 🚀 Reliable and efficient
- 👍 Great app for school information
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔑 Login issues and session expiration
- 🤔 Confusing and cluttered UI
- 🤖 Compatibility issues on Mac devices
- 🙄 Constant need to update the app
Audiri
From 25 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great way to communicate
- 👍 Handy updates
- 👍 Good app
- 👍 Friendly interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App won't open
- 🐛 Constant update issues
- 🐛 Notifications not working correctly
- 🐛 Unfriendly user interface
Bugs and requests
Compass School Manager
Reported bugs
5 issues- Unable to log in or search for school
- Notifications not working as expected
- Learning tasks page layout issues
- Landscape mode not functioning properly
- Inconsistent behavior across devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Improve navigation and organization
- Allow students to remove submissions
- Show class rosters within each class
- Provide more customization options
Audiri
Reported bugs
34 issues- App says update needed but already updated
- App crashes after update
- App won't open or stay open after update
- 819 notifications upon update, then app shuts down
- App stopped working, keeps saying problem occurred
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- Notifications badge still appears after reading
- Cannot access forms
- Cannot open PDFs
- Notifications stop working after a week
- App logs out periodically
- Reinstall is the only fix for notifications
- App doesn't always reliably change notifications from read to unread
- Cannot archive notifications
- Notifications page cluttered with old notifications
- App signs out constantly
- App stays on login screen or home screen without opening
- Daily forced reinstallation needed
- Notification to say not logged in while logged in
- Json parse Error: u expected EOF
- School drops off after update
- Cannot add school back after update
- App will not login, flashes but remains on login screen
- Notification badge remains on even after reading all messages
- App crashes constantly
- App signs me out
- App doesn't open after update
- Getting notifications from wrong school
- Cannot log in
- Keeps signing me out
- App is locked to portrait orientation
- Forced update to SkoolBag app
- Recover password email has no link
- App crashes on iPhone 5s
- App requires an extra step to see school
Requested features
9 requests- Ability to set family profile details once
- Search function for notifications
- Option to hide or remove unwanted groups/notifications
- Ability to archive posts
- Support for landscape mode
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- Option to make notifications specific to a child's year
- Ability to set child's class for relevant info only
- Option to sign permission slips and pay directly
- Option to 'update later'
In-app purchases
Compass School Manager
No in-app purchases
Audiri
No in-app purchases
Questions
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