Comparison

Lockview High School vs SM Home

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

Head to head
About

Lockview High School

This app connects parents, students, teachers, and administrators with essential school resources, news, and tools. It provides access to event calendars, staff directories, student IDs, assignments, and language translation.

Highlights
  • School news and announcements
  • Interactive event calendars
  • Staff directory
  • Student ID and assignments
  • Language translation
  • Online and social media access
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The Lockview High School app by SchoolInfoApp enables parents, students, teachers and administrators to quickly access the resources, tools, news and information to stay connected and informed! The Lockview High School app by SchoolInfoApp features: - Important school and class news and announcements - Interactive resources including event calendars, maps, staff directory and more - Student tools including My ID, My Assignments, Hall Pass and Tip Line - Language translation to more than 30 languages - Quick access to online and social media resources About SchoolInfoApp: We build great apps for great schools and school districts and have published apps serving thousands of schools and districts around the globe. All we do is develop and manage mobile apps for schools and school districts, so our focus is 100% on doing that incredibly well. The result is apps that are highly rated with features that students, parents, teachers and administrators find to be time-saving, simple and useful. Features listed may or may not be included depending on your school or district's policies and preferences.

About

SM Home

Stay connected with your child's school. This app consolidates all school communications, including phone calls, emails, and SMS messages, into a single inbox. Manage your preferences, and optionally chat with teachers or report absences.

Highlights
  • Consolidated communication inbox
  • Manage communication preferences
  • Optional chat with teachers
  • Report student absences
  • Search, sort, and filter messages
Features
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For parents/guardians and students, the easy-to-use app allows users to quickly review any broadcast sent from the SchoolMessenger service (Phone/Email/SMS) in one place, manage your communication preferences and, optionally, Chat with teachers** or report absences.** Requires WIFI or data plan for internet access. Requires SchoolMessenger Communicate service subscription by the school or district. Note: SchoolMessenger Home is used for receiving SchoolMessenger Communicate messages sent by district or school personnel. If you are a school administrator or staff member looking to send messages, please download the SM Sender App. ** Chat and Attendance options may not be available depending on your School/District Here’s what’s new in v1 Inbox: All broadcasts sent from Communicate to you (Phone/SMS/Email) will also live in the app Inbox giving you one place to easily access all communications regardless of the delivery method. You can search, sort, filter and delete any of these communications My Profile: This is where you can see your students, manage your communication preferences, Access Help and Delete Your Account Chat**: Have one on one or class group conversations with teachers Attendance**: Report your students absent from school or respond to absences not reported to the school **Optional items and may not be available to all schools

Screenshots

Lockview High School3 screens
SM Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SM Home at 15% against Lockview High School's 0%. Lockview High School's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lockview High School versus SM Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLockview High SchoolSM Home
PriceFreeFree
Rating—2.1 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews15.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—13 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS10.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB37 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperSchoolInfoApp, LLCPowerSchool Group LLC

Customer experience

Lockview High School

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

SM Home

All ratings12 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive15.4%
Neutral11.5%
Negative73.1%

In-app purchases

None

Lockview High School

No in-app purchases

None

SM Home

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lockview High School free?
Lockview High School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SM Home free?
SM Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Lockview High School or SM Home have ads?
Neither Lockview High School nor SM Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lockview High School or SM Home?
Lockview High School ships an update monthly, and SM Home monthly. Most recently, Lockview High School was updated on November 1, 2026 and SM Home on November 10, 2026.

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