Compass School Manager vs QParents
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.
QParents
This app offers parents of Queensland State School students a secure way to communicate with their school and access student information 24/7. Manage attendance, payments, assessment dates, and more through a single dashboard. Parents can also update student details and report absences.
- Student timetable, assessment, and exam dates
- School attendance and behaviour records
- Upcoming school excursions and events
- Invoices and payments
- School report cards and enrolment history
- Manage multiple children's school needs
- Update student details and report absences
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QParents is a secure app that provides parents of Queensland State School students with a new and exciting avenue of communication with their school. Join the thousands of parents who have already registered to gain 24-hour direct access to your student’s information and communicate with the school easily and efficiently. Don’t have time to go in to the school and pay for next week’s excursion? Have a family holiday coming up and need to let the school know you’ll be away? Want to check your student’s assessment dates quickly and easily? With the QParents portal, you have access to everything you need to know via a single, clear student dashboard, including: • Student timetable, assessment and exam dates • School attendance and behaviour records • Upcoming school excursions and events • Invoices and payments • School report cards and enrolment history • Student school photo Use QParents to manage all your children’s school needs from one convenient location by adding all school students in your family to one QParents account. You can also request updates or changes to student details using QParents, such as: • providing reasons for past unexplained absences • advising the school of future absences • notifying the school of changes to student address, date of birth, and medical conditions • viewing, selecting and paying outstanding invoices Please note that parents can only view student information using the QParents app if their student attends a school that has joined the QParents program. Parents will be invited to register for QParents by school administration once the program has been rolled out at the school.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Compass School Manager at 35% against QParents's 5%. Compass School Manager also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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, QParents every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Compass School Manager | QParents |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (142 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 35.4% of reviews — better | 5.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Compass Operations Pty Ltd | Department of Education (Queensland) |
Customer experience
Compass School Manager
QParents
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
QParents
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Compass School Manager
No in-app purchases
QParents
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Compass School Manager free?
Is QParents free?
Do Compass School Manager or QParents have ads?
Which is updated more often, Compass School Manager or QParents?
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