School Diary vs Wal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
School Diary
Facilitates seamless communication between parents and schools, offering real-time updates on child's progress, attendance, and safety. Schools benefit from streamlined communication and increased staff productivity.
- Timely school and class alerts
- Track child's progress and activities
- Monitor child safety with bus tracking
- Multimedia messaging for engagement
- Attendance tracking and sharing
- Daycare and transport modules
- Fees payment tracking
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“School Diary”, makes parent-school communication easy, engaging and effective. SchoolDiary - is a mobile first platform that enables parents to receive timely updates (school or class alerts, daycare updates, event reminders), to track child’s progress (activity pictures, homework, attendance reports) and to monitor child safety (bus tracker) while kids are in transit on their smartphones. For a School, SchoolDiary eliminates paper wastage, provides one window for all their communication needs (instead of schools using print, diary notes, SMS, email, web portals for different messages) & improves staff productivity. More than 250 schools/pre-schools across the world are leveraging Schooldiary. The key features of School Diary are - a. Summary of key activities for the day. b. Instant & private messaging. Messages can be sent one to one or in a group to parents. Push notifications are instantly sent to parents informing about an incoming messages. c. A multimedia messaging platform that enables schools to engage parents at right moments; Messages can be text, pictures, PDFs or voice messages. So school can now share classroom activity pictures, audio of child singing & important announcements with parents instantly on their phone. d. A calendar that not only allows parent to view the roadmap but also reminds them on key activities at the right moments. e. Attendance that helps schools easily capture and share attendance with parents f. A scheduling option that schools can use to send pre-composed messages to parent. They can just select schedule for every message and see those messages delivered at their scheduled time to the selected parents. g. Daycare module to keep parents informed about their child’s daily progress & activities. h. Transport module that helps parents track the bus, get route and ETA to their stop. i. Fees module to track each child's fees payment status and receipts. And much more..
Wal
This app serves as a central hub for parents to receive all school-related communications. It consolidates messages, homework, circulars, and important dates, and allows for submitting absence notes.
- School notifications
- Homework tracking
- Event calendar
- Absent notes submission
- Message consolidation
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The official Walnut app for the smart parents of Walnut School. One place to get all school related notifications. The Wal-Sh app has been released by Arpita Karkarey's Walnut School for its parents. Features: 1. Messages: We know that keeping tab of so many facets of your child's life is difficult. Worksheets, circulars, dates, homework and all that. The messages feature keeps everything in one place and handy to look up whenever and wherever. Here are some types of messages: - Push notifications of circulars - Important messages - Homework - Events 2. Calendar: View the school's Google Calendar to see any upcoming events and important dates. 3. Absent notes: Children fall sick. Bad times. But, if children don't come to school, we get worried! What better way than to send us an absent note for this? That way, we can also wish your child a speedy recovery!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wal at 5.0 against School Diary's 3.0. School Diary's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Wal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Diary has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of School Diary's written reviews are positive against 29% of Wal's.
School Diary ships an update fortnightly, Wal every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Diary | Wal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.1% of reviews | 28.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UFONY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED | Nikhil Karkare |
Customer experience
School Diary
Wal
In-app purchases
School Diary
No in-app purchases
Wal
No in-app purchases








