Satchel One vs Involve Education
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
Involve Education
This app centralizes school-related information for students, teachers, and parents. It provides a single platform to access timetables, notes, messages, and learning resources.
- Timetable access
- Note management
- Message communication
- Resource sharing
- Activity tracking
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Involve is the simple way to keep track of all your school activities. Whether you’re a student, teacher or parent: now you can see all your timetables, notes, messages, resources and more all in one place.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Satchel One at 3.7 against Involve Education's 1.0. Satchel One also leads on ratings volume (379 vs 1) and review sentiment (65% vs 46%). Involve Education's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Involve Education asks for nothing beyond the download.
Satchel One holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Satchel One has 379 ratings behind it against 1, 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 46% of Involve Education's.
Satchel One ships an update every 4 weeks, Involve Education every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Satchel One | Involve Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (379 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.5% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 379 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| 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 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TeacherCentric Ltd | Practice Pal Limited |
Customer experience
Satchel One
Involve Education
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
Involve Education
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Involve Education
No in-app purchases
Questions
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