Comparison

QParents vs Daymap Mobile

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

QParents

This app offers parents of Queensland State School students a secure way to communicate with their school and access student information 24/7. Manage attendance, payments, assessment dates, and more through a single dashboard. Parents can also update student details and report absences.

Highlights
  • Student timetable, assessment, and exam dates
  • School attendance and behaviour records
  • Upcoming school excursions and events
  • Invoices and payments
  • School report cards and enrolment history
  • Manage multiple children's school needs
  • Update student details and report absences
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QParents is a secure app that provides parents of Queensland State School students with a new and exciting avenue of communication with their school. Join the thousands of parents who have already registered to gain 24-hour direct access to your student’s information and communicate with the school easily and efficiently. Don’t have time to go in to the school and pay for next week’s excursion? Have a family holiday coming up and need to let the school know you’ll be away? Want to check your student’s assessment dates quickly and easily? With the QParents portal, you have access to everything you need to know via a single, clear student dashboard, including: • Student timetable, assessment and exam dates • School attendance and behaviour records • Upcoming school excursions and events • Invoices and payments • School report cards and enrolment history • Student school photo Use QParents to manage all your children’s school needs from one convenient location by adding all school students in your family to one QParents account. You can also request updates or changes to student details using QParents, such as: • providing reasons for past unexplained absences • advising the school of future absences • notifying the school of changes to student address, date of birth, and medical conditions • viewing, selecting and paying outstanding invoices Please note that parents can only view student information using the QParents app if their student attends a school that has joined the QParents program. Parents will be invited to register for QParents by school administration once the program has been rolled out at the school.

About

Daymap Mobile

This application provides access to essential school management features. Users can engage with messaging, submit assessments, and manage roll marking. It offers a convenient way to stay connected with school activities and administrative tasks.

Highlights
  • Messaging
  • Assessment submission
  • Roll marking
  • School administration access
Features
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Access to Daymap Messaging, Assessment, Roll Marking functionality and more.

Screenshots

QParents4 screens
Daymap Mobile2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: QParents at every 5 weeks against Daymap Mobile's every 3 months. Daymap Mobile's advantage is review sentiment (18% vs 7%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QParents ships an update every 5 weeks, Daymap Mobile every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
QParents versus Daymap Mobile: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQParentsDaymap Mobile
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews6.8% of reviews17.9% of reviews — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB25 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDepartment of Education QueenslandLoop Software

Customer experience

QParents

Written reviews103 reviews
Positive6.8%
Neutral6.8%
Negative86.4%

Daymap Mobile

Written reviews67 reviews
Positive17.9%
Neutral1.5%
Negative80.6%

Bugs and requests

QParents

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Daymap Mobile

Reported bugs

53 issues
  • Cannot sign in / login errors
  • App keeps signing out / logout issues
  • App is buggy/glitchy
  • App is slow/doesn't load
  • Companion app doesn't show lessons
Show 48 more
  • Notification click leads to wrong user/account
  • Cannot find half the features (e.g., attendance)
  • App redirects to website
  • Pop-ups everywhere on website telling to get app
  • Teachers don't mark attendance correctly
  • Cannot add comments to assessment tasks
  • Page constantly does not load
  • Bugs out when accessing class notes
  • Functions available on desktop inaccessible on mobile
  • Students marked present glitch to 'skipping a lesson'
  • Shows older messages first
  • Clicking calendar entry gives no info
  • Back button not accessible on iPhone 14
  • Clicking message notification doesn't go to most recent
  • Navigation hidden behind top of screen (iPhone 14 Pro)
  • Cannot see school bulletins in app
  • Cannot get push notifications
  • Hitting back arrow takes out of assessment section
  • App logs out daily
  • Cannot get past load screen
  • Messages won't send
  • App stuck in dark ages, dysfunctional, clunky
  • Messaging feature hides 'New message' button
  • Display layout doesn't respect text properly
  • Cannot log in to youngest child's school
  • Computer mode not available on app
  • App consistently logs out
  • Words and numbers overlapping, cannot see whole screen
  • App has not worked for days
  • Link from message doesn't work
  • Cannot accept invitations
  • Have to accept each single session spread out months
  • App bugs out
  • Tasks folder unorganizable
  • Server never on for Filr
  • Login process is bizarre
  • Mobile link on website gives QR code, app has no reader
  • Login again after clicking link
  • App shows welcome screen and how-to videos without login
  • Signs out and doesn't allow access for weeks
  • Password is wrong error
  • App is barely functional, features cut from PC version
  • Horrible UI choices & design
  • App is an awkwardly cropped version of the PC webpage
  • No point for kids if phones not allowed at school
  • App is laggy and doesn't work right
  • Takes forever to load
  • Cannot log into account on phone as it doesn't load

Requested features

16 requests
  • Fix login issues
  • Improve navigation
  • Add more features from desktop version
  • Fix bugs
  • Improve performance/speed
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  • Make app more intuitive
  • Fix messaging feature
  • Ensure push notifications work
  • Improve file storage/access
  • Make app more functional for teachers
  • Fix back button on iPhone
  • Allow staying logged in
  • Improve UI/UX design
  • Make app respect text display properly
  • Fix QR code login process
  • Allow users to choose desktop mode on app

In-app purchases

None

QParents

No in-app purchases

None

Daymap Mobile

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QParents free?
QParents is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daymap Mobile free?
Daymap Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QParents or Daymap Mobile have ads?
Neither QParents nor Daymap Mobile shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QParents or Daymap Mobile?
QParents ships an update every 5 weeks, and Daymap Mobile every 3 months. Most recently, QParents was updated on October 26, 2026 and Daymap Mobile on October 26, 2026.

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