Compass School Manager vs Kinderloop Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Compass School Manager
This app provides a centralized platform for school communities to access important information. It delivers school news, event updates, and assignment details, making it a convenient tool for staff, students, and parents.
- School news updates
- Event notifications
- Assignment tracking
- Access for staff, students, and parents
- Centralized school information
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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.
Kinderloop Plus
This app simplifies documenting children's development for childcare educators and teachers globally. It securely shares child-specific information with linked families through real-time updates and allows private posting between family members.
- Educator-led features
- Secure child development documentation
- Real-time updates for families
- Private family posting
- Login with existing credentials
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Kinderloop Plus includes many new educator led features and is a recommended download for all Kinderloopers on newer devices, both educator and family member! Simply download to your device and login with your usual username and password. Kinderloop is the simplest, most secure & fun way for child care educators/teachers worldwide to document children’s development. Child specific information is privately shared with linked family, through real-time updates. Families can also privately post to each other in Kinderloop Plus!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Kinderloop Plus at 13.0 against Compass School Manager's 15.0. 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 ships an update every 3 weeks, Kinderloop Plus every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Compass School Manager | Kinderloop Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (162 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 36.8% of reviews | 41.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compass Operations Pty Ltd | Kinderloop Inc |
Customer experience
Compass School Manager
Kinderloop Plus
User reviews
Compass School Manager
From 162 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
Kinderloop Plus
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use platform
- 👍 Facilitates practical workflow
- 👍 Impeccable customer support
- 👍 Listens to customer feedback
- 👍 Responsive support team
Room to improve
- 🐛 App doesn't send email for reset/login
- 🐛 UI/UX needs improvement
- 🐛 Pathetic UX
- 🐛 Horrible for updating data
- 🐛 Delay on posts showing up
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
Kinderloop Plus
Reported bugs
53 issues- App doesn't send email to reset or create login
- App doesn't respond
- Loads whole page instead of updating data
- Delay on posts showing up
- Notifications show old posts
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- Difficult to tell what's updated after notification
- New content doesn't show up after refreshing
- Daily Activity section is unclear and scrolls terribly
- Super slow and glitchy
- Notifications received but no update loads
- Takes hours for information to feed through
- Hard to find old contents
- No search, no filter for old content
- Not user friendly, everything is all over the place
- Usability issues and buggy
- Notification opens to last post, not the notified post
- Comment text box too big for phone screen
- Cannot save photos
- Cannot sign incident report if leaving comments
- Don't know which is the new post or comments
- Need to read every post to find the new one
- Wait to import photos is complicated and time consuming
- No option to re-upload later
- Sound doesn't always play on all devices
- Feed is messy, not displayed in chronological order
- Cannot have one-to-one conversation with a teacher
- Save to Camera Roll functionality removed
- Cannot download photos and videos directly
- Password reset link not sent
- Parents not able to view daily activity on the app
- Reopening page issues, app won't download unless closed and reopened
- Updates take a few hours to drop in
- Showing unknown error every time app is opened
- Screenshot is allowed, but download is not
- Teachers sending pics for whole week regardless of attendance
- Frustrating to log in via web browser for daily activity and accident reports
- Cannot take screenshot of photos
- App is really buggy, lots of crashes with 'unknown error'
- Posts don't load 50% of the time
- Takes hours (sometimes a whole day) for posts to appear
- Lack of ability to download photos and documents
- Cannot comment on posts since last update on mobile device
- Login required at least once per day on iPhone
- Constantly logged out
- Notifications aren't popping up or are delayed
- Massive lag with notifications
- App glitches and crashes when rotating phone
- Need improvement in UI/UX
- Login problems
- Refresh issues
- Delay on posts and notifications
- App doesn't send email for reset or login
- Save to Camera Roll functionality gone
Requested features
25 requests- More specific notifications
- Option to mute notifications for specific post types
- Dedicated spot for daily posts on main navigation
- Download photos and videos directly
- Save photos to camera roll
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- Option to re-upload photos
- Download images
- Option to exclude sending to parents whose child is not in that day
- Download option for photos and documents
- Improve refresh issues
- Make daily activity viewable on app
- Improve UX and customer experience
- Appoint a UX expert
- Redesign the app
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Improve notification system
- Add search and filter for old content
- Allow comments on posts
- Improve feed display (chronological order)
- Allow one-to-one conversations with teachers
- Add functionality to save photos and videos
- Fix sound issues on different devices
- Improve login session management
- Provide option to download photos and videos
In-app purchases
Compass School Manager
No in-app purchases
Kinderloop Plus
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Compass School Manager free?
Is Kinderloop Plus free?
Do Compass School Manager or Kinderloop Plus have ads?
Which is updated more often, Compass School Manager or Kinderloop Plus?
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