GP Sabres vs SpacesEDU
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GP Sabres
Stay informed with school updates, event calendars, and important news. This app provides push notifications for school closures and allows easy access to school contacts and online resources.
- Push notifications for news and closures
- Up-to-date event calendars
- Direct contact options (email, phone)
- Access to school website and social media
- Share school events
- Export events to personal calendar
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This is the official Guildford Park Secondary School mobile app. NOTE: This app is only useful for students, parents, and staff at this school. Subscribe to updates from your teachers and the school, and always have up-to-date event calendars and other information at hand. Other benefits: * Push notifications will keep you updated about school closures and other important news. * You’ll always have your school calendars and resources on hand and up-to-date. * Conveniently e-mail, phone, or navigate to the school, or reach the website, social media, and other online resources. * Spread the word about school events! To do so, tap on the event on the Calendar screen, then tap the Share icon. * Want school events in your regular Calendar app? Go to the Calendar screen, tap the Export icon (top right), and follow the instructions. Visit gpsabres.appazur.com to learn more. This is a new product designed for your school. If you have suggestions or problems, we welcome you to contact us using the Feedback feature on the Help screen. Thank you. Terms and Conditions: gpsabres.appazur.com/help/terms Guildford Park Secondary School 10707-146 Street Surrey, BC V3R 1T5
SpacesEDU
This app facilitates portfolio-based assessment for educators and students. It allows for the creation and collection of student work in various formats, assessment of learning against standards, and communication of progress through visual reports. Students can engage in feedback and sharing within a dedicated digital space.
- Portfolio-based assessment tools
- Assign and collect student work
- Assess mastery of standards
- Create visual report cards
- Real-time feedback and messaging
- Support for various media types
- Group collaboration spaces
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SpacesEDU makes it easy for teachers and students to capture, communicate, and celebrate the growth that’s happening in and out of the classroom. Based on feedback from 15+ years of educator insight, SpacesEDU Portfolio-Based Assessment (PBA) tools allow teachers to assign activities, collect evidence of learning in multiple formats, assess student mastery of standards and competencies, and create visual report cards. With SpacesEDU, student assessment progress becomes a two-way conversation. Students can ask questions, receive teacher feedback, peer review, and share work in an authentic and flexible way - all without leaving the SpacesEDU app. Provide real-time feedback on student work through commenting and messaging without leaving the app. Bring SpacesEDU into your classroom today and give your students their own space to learn, grow, and tell the stories behind their grades. Key Features • Activities: Easily create, track, and review activities to engage students in the learning process and provide a space for self-reflection • 1:1 Spaces: Create a safe one-on-one (teacher to student) space for your students to showcase their work in a portfolio, on topics, units, or self-reflections. Create 1:1 Spaces to better organize all of the work happening within your classroom and tie them to your own course objectives • Group Spaces: Spark collaboration with spaces for students to work on group projects, peer reviews, and more. Create your own groups or have them created for you • Space to grow: Add unlimited files to student or teacher accounts • Support for a wide variety of media types: Upload files (20 file types), capture content directly from your camera or microphone, add links from websites, or import from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. You can add up to ten media attachments to a post • Reporting Spaces: Think of it as a visual report card or summative portfolio. Teachers can easily bookmark exemplary artifacts of student learning throughout the year and add it to a Reporting Space. With Reporting Spaces, share student growth with family and/or students at the end of the year or at various progress points. Available only to schools and districts licensing SpacesEDU Pro Reporting Add-On • Proficiency Scales: A Standards-Based Assessment feature that makes it easy for educators to assess and report on student progress on learning outcomes and competencies using a 4 point scale (customize the scale with SpacesEDU Pro!) • Class Engagement and Read Receipts: Teachers can quickly view whether students or family have accessed the classroom or read specific messages • Technical support for teachers and students: We offer an unparalleled support experience, including live chat support for all users & personalized onboarding and support for schools and districts • Direct Messages: Have direct, real-time conversations with students, teachers, family members with messages (SpacesEDU Pro) • Drafts: Not ready to publish your post? Save posts as a draft so you can come back to them once you’re ready • Channels: With channels, you can send class announcements and communicate with all students, all family members, or both. You decide when and if to allow replies. (SpacesEDU Pro) • Family accounts: Family members can create accounts to view, comment, and celebrate their student’s work, engage with posts, and message with the teacher. (SpacesEDU Pro) • Advanced settings and notifications, including options to enable private or collaboration-focused workspaces • FERPA, COPPA, and PIPEDA compliant privacy standards: Protecting student privacy is foundational in the design of this product • Clever SSO: Users are able to signup and login using Clever • QR Codes - Allow students to use QR Codes to log into the SpacesEDU platform - making it even easier to get started. Teachers can access, share or print QR Codes for their students directly within their Classes. Available only to schools and districts licensing SpacesEDU Pro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: GP Sabres at 50% against SpacesEDU's 7%. GP Sabres also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and monetization model (free vs freemium). SpacesEDU's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (21 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
GP Sabres holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SpacesEDU has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of GP Sabres's written reviews are positive against 7% of SpacesEDU's.
GP Sabres ships an update every 2 months, SpacesEDU every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GP Sabres | SpacesEDU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 6.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 149 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Surrey School District | Doublethink Inc. |
Customer experience
GP Sabres
SpacesEDU
Bugs and requests
GP Sabres
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SpacesEDU
Reported bugs
2 issues- Login issues and inability to access accounts
- Inconsistent performance and unexpected crashes
Requested features
3 requests- Improve app stability and responsiveness
- Enhance user-friendly navigation and interface
- Integrate more useful features for students and teachers
In-app purchases
GP Sabres
No in-app purchases
SpacesEDU
No in-app purchases









