School Diary vs i
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..
i
This educational app provides students and parents with essential information and notifications from their institutions. It offers modules for attendance, homework, notices, and canteen menus, keeping families connected to school activities.
- Attendance tracking
- Student activity monitoring
- Homework assignments
- School notices and newsletters
- Canteen menu access
- Fees ledger
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i-Campus buddy is an app that shows the activity of students. I-Campus buddy app is for education institutes’s Respective students and their Parents. In this app parent will get all the required Notifications and other Information in form of text or images from institute. There are modules like e.g.. Attendance, Student Activity - Cam View, Homework, Notice, Newsletter, Messages,Gallery,Canteen Menu,Fees ledger etc..
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: i at 5.0 against School Diary's 3.0. i also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). School Diary's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and review sentiment (21% vs 8%). 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.
i 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 complicate that: 21% of School Diary's written reviews are positive against 8% of i's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
School Diary ships an update fortnightly, i every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Diary | i |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.4% of reviews — better | 8.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UFONY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED | Arun Solanki |
Customer experience
School Diary
i
In-app purchases
School Diary
No in-app purchases
i
No in-app purchases









