Satchel One vs SIMS Parent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Satchel One
This app provides a comprehensive learning platform for students, teachers, and parents. It facilitates homework management, timetable access, behavior tracking, and communication between all parties. Stay organized and informed about academic progress and school activities.
- Set, grade, and comment on homework
- Access timetables
- Track homework to-do lists
- Submit work online
- View school events and announcements
- Monitor behavior points and detentions
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Satchel One for iOS allows you to access our learning platform on the go. Since launching Show My Homework in 2011, we’ve been proud to call 1 in 3 UK secondary schools our partners, and we still are. Since our inception, we’ve expanded our award-winning software into a number of additional apps to create Satchel One, our learning platform. Today, Satchel One is home to Show My Homework, Content, Timetables, Behaviour, Seating, Attendance and Detentions apps. Benefits for teachers: - Set, grade and comment on homework - Assign Behaviour points and award Badges - Easily access your timetables - Receive notifications for student submissions and comments Benefits for students: - Keep track of homework using your To-do List - Easily access your timetables - Receive feedback and leave comments for your teachers - Submit your work online, take spelling tests and quizzes - View school events and announcements - View your Behaviour points, attendance, and detentions Benefits for parents: - Keep track of all your children's To-do Lists in one place - View quiz and spelling test results - View student and teacher comments - View school events and announcements - Monitor Behaviour points, attendance, and detentions Be sure to read our Terms of Use and Privacy Notice: Terms of Use: https://www.teamsatchel.com/legals/terms.html Privacy Notice: https://www.teamsatchel.com/legals/privacy_notice.html
SIMS Parent
This app allows parents to actively engage with their children's education by providing access to homework, calendars, timetables, and assessment results. Parents can also track progress, view behavior reports, and communicate with schools via secure messaging. It consolidates information for children attending different schools, enhancing safeguarding and parental involvement.
- View homework and assignments
- Access student calendars and timetables
- Track assessment results and reports
- Monitor attendance and behavior
- Secure messaging with schools
- Manage multiple children across schools
- Update safeguarding information
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Please note: For security, this app requires an invitation code from your child's school. Be proactive Engaging with your children's education is key to their success. Help them stay on track with due dates by seeing their: - Homework - Calendar - Timetable - Extra-curricular activities Track progress See the information needed to understand your children's education and their overall performance better. Securely view your children's records: - Assessment results - Truancy - Behaviour: good and bad - School reports Stay connected Get alerts. Send and receive messages. Schools can send you alerts and messages straight to your phone. All your children in one place across schools With SIMS Parent, you can see all your children's data even if they attend different schools. (Requires schools to set up access for SIMS Parent) Safeguarding Help keep your children safe. In an emergency, up-to-date information helps schools meet their safeguarding obligations. Manage what information the school holds right from your phone. About SIMS SIMS: the School Information Management System at the heart of 21,000 UK schools.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Satchel One at 65% against SIMS Parent's 2%. Satchel One also leads on rating (3.7 vs 2.1) and ratings volume (388 vs 20). SIMS Parent's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Satchel One sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SIMS Parent asks for nothing beyond the download.
Satchel One holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Satchel One has 388 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Satchel One's written reviews are positive against 2% of SIMS Parent's.
Satchel One ships an update every 4 weeks, SIMS Parent fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Satchel One | SIMS Parent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (388 ratings) — better | 2.1 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews — better | 2.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 388 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TeacherCentric Ltd | Education Software Solutions Ltd |
Customer experience
Satchel One
SIMS Parent
User reviews
Satchel One
From 388 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 👍 Helpful for homework management
- 🚀 Organized and clear interface
- 👍 Useful for parents to monitor child's progress
- 🚀 Convenient for accessing homework details
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🐛 Attendance and behavior tracking not always accurate
- 🐛 Homework not always updated in a timely manner
- 🐛 Difficulty adding additional children to parent account
- 🤔 Too many notifications can be overwhelming
SIMS Parent
From 20 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for tracking attendance
- 👍 Useful for checking timetables
- 👍 Useful for viewing achievement logs
- 👍 Useful for viewing behaviour logs
- 👍 Useful for keeping on top of homework
Room to improve
- 🐛 Constantly crashes
- 🐛 Frequently logs out
- 🐛 Unreliable and unusable
- 🐛 Difficult to log in
- 🐛 Password reset issues
Bugs and requests
Satchel One
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes frequently
- Homework not showing up or disappearing
- Login issues and password reset problems
- Syncing issues between app and website version
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to customize profile picture
- Option to filter homework by due date
- Improved parent-teacher communication features
- Integration with calendar app for better organization
- Offline mode for accessing homework details
SIMS Parent
Reported bugs
61 issues- App crashes frequently
- App logs users out unexpectedly
- Login details are not recognized
- Password reset functionality is broken
- App is very slow to load
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- App freezes or becomes unresponsive
- Notifications are not delivered or displayed correctly
- Unable to access certain features like dashboard or messages
- App does not work on iPhone
- Account gets locked without reason
- Password reset requires unprovided security questions
- App gets stuck in a login loop
- App does not load school pages
- App does not refresh data
- App is not updated for a long time
- Unable to reply to teacher messages on iPhone
- Login details are declined
- Cannot log in with new password after reset
- App requires re-registration every time
- App signs out or bugs out frequently
- App kicks users out randomly
- App does not accept activation codes
- Login details keeps getting declined
- App is unusable at best of times
- App is missing features after installation
- App is not sending password reset emails
- App is stuck on a specific date
- App is not user friendly
- App gets stuck in an endless loop
- Two-step authentication causes immediate lockout
- Password reset button doesn't work
- Black box covers typing area on iPhone
- App is buggy and in development stage
- Login page remains blank
- App is stalking and annoying
- App constantly asks to change password, then invalidates it
- App disables accounts and won't reset passwords
- App stalls loading on different sections
- App says account already exists after deletion
- App keeps loading and then logging off
- App shows error when trying to access messages
- App has issues with multiple children at the same school
- Tiles don't load
- Homework section has disappeared
- School dinner money account tab fails to load
- App acts as a hopeless gatekeeper to website
- App logs out and takes ages to log back in
- Recognition points take ages to load
- Session expired errors
- App asks for invitation repeatedly
- App does not allow marking homework as submitted
- Cannot open links for homework or attachments
- Random notifications with nothing to view
- App is not updated for weeks
- App is not fit for purpose
- App is a complete wind up
- App is utter garbage
- App is a joke
- App is dysfunctional
- App is a waste of time
- App is a horrible, wretched app
Requested features
13 requests- Fix login issues
- Improve app stability
- Update app regularly
- Better password reset functionality
- Improve communication features
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- Make app more intuitive
- Allow easier access to support
- Improve server capacity
- Allow linking multiple schools easily
- Fix message sending/receiving
- Make app work on all devices
- Provide clear error messages
- Allow easier login with fewer steps
In-app purchases
Satchel One
- Satchel One Plus - Extra7 Days trial2 variants$1.991 Month
- Satchel One Plus - Extra7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Satchel One Plus - Family7 Days trial$5.491 Month
- Ebook National 5 Business Man.$1.99
- Ebook National 5 Design & Man.$1.99
- Ebook National 5 French$1.99
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- Revision ebook GCSE Geography$2.99
- Ebook GCSE Maths Higher$2.99
- Ebook GCSE English Lang & Lit$2.99
- Revision ebook GCSE Chemistry$2.99
SIMS Parent
No in-app purchases
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