Comparison

Compass School Manager vs QParents

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • School news updates
  • Event calendars
  • Assignment tracking
  • Parent-teacher communication
  • Student progress monitoring
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Compass School Manager4 screens
QParents4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Compass School Manager versus QParents: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCompass School ManagerQParents
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (142 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews35.4% of reviews — better5.0% of reviews
Number of ratings142 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.114.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCompass Operations Pty LtdDepartment of Education (Queensland)

Customer experience

Compass School Manager

All ratings142 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.8%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews356 reviews
Positive35.4%
Neutral13.2%
Negative51.4%

QParents

Written reviews100 reviews
Positive5.0%
Neutral7.0%
Negative88.0%

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

None

Compass School Manager

No in-app purchases

None

QParents

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Compass School Manager free?
Compass School Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QParents free?
QParents is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Compass School Manager or QParents have ads?
Neither Compass School Manager nor QParents shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Compass School Manager or QParents?
Compass School Manager ships an update every 3 weeks, and QParents every 2 months. Most recently, Compass School Manager was updated on September 22, 2026 and QParents on September 24, 2026.

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