Compare the Top Free School Communication Software as of February 2026

What is Free School Communication Software?

School communication software and apps enable schools, school districts, and teachers to communicate with parents and students using a dedicated school messaging and collaboration platform. Parent-teacher communication apps and school communication apps offer different ways for school administrators and teachers to communicate important messages and share moments with students and families. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free School Communication software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Pikmykid

    Pikmykid

    Pikmykid

    Pikmykid is the leading safety and dismissal platform that empowers schools to simplify dismissal, engage parents, and keep students safe without the need to purchase, install, or support additional hardware. Designed by former educators and parents, Pikmykid has helped more than 2,000 schools in all 50 states eliminate the busy work and vulnerabilities of dismissal so that teachers have more time to teach, admins aren’t bogged down in carpool calls, and principals can account for every student at the end of the day. And with extensive SIS integrations, Pikmykid easily fits into your schools’ existing ecosystems to make the tools you already have that much more powerful.
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    Starting Price: $1750.00/year
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    Mvix Digital Signage
    Mvix Digital Signage is a Pro-AV enterprise level digital signage solution that features our award-winning cloud-based digital signage software. Our solutions have been adopted worldwide by industries including schools, corporate offices, retail stores, healthcare facilities, manufacturing to provide solutions such as: - Digital Menu Boards - Video Walls - Internal & External Communications - DOOH - FIDS - Court Docket Displays - Outdoor Displays - Digital Building Directores/Wayfinding As a leading provider in content-rich solutions, the Mvix CMS contains the necessary tools to help you maximize your digital communication strategies. These include the ability to schedule files, images, videos, slideshows, pdfs, and utilize our other apps to display upcoming events, company KPIs through PowerBI, time, date, and much much more. Contact a solutions consultant today to find which solutions will be best for your business.
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    Starting Price: $350/One-Time Cost
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    Ilerno

    Ilerno

    Scoolio LTD

    Ilerno is a comprehensive school management software enhancing education through automation, communication, and digital management. It saves time by automating grade entry and report generation, facilitates better communication between teachers, students, and parents, and reduces paperwork by digitizing records. Features include scheduling for efficient class organization, attendance tracking, secure data management with permissions, a Learning Management System (LMS) for resource sharing and performance tracking, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for stakeholder interactions, task and project management for educational activities, and billing for financial transactions. Ilerno supports distance learning, offering tools for online courses, real-time feedback, and student engagement. It's designed to streamline operations, improve educational outcomes, and enhance the learning experience for all users.
    Starting Price: Free
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    CallingPost

    CallingPost

    CallingPost Communications

    CallingPost is a MASS messaging service that sends your communications instantly by phone (pre-recorded voice), text (sms), email or even all three! Help your organization thrive today by making communication fast, easy & reliable for everyone. No one has to feel frustrated or left out again. Using CallingPost is as easy as 1-2-3! Stay Connected with CallingPost! In 1995, we were the original pioneers in mass messaging technology by being the first to make group communication fast, easy & reliable. Our system is built on a solid foundation of excellence, trust, and reliability. Starting as a one-to-many phone system, we have expanded our service to include email, text, and analytical reporting. Help your people thrive today by making communication fast, easy & reliable for everyone. We are proud to have facilitated over 1 Billion Communications!
    Starting Price: $4.98 per month, 15 contacts
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    TUIO

    TUIO

    TUIO Payments

    Seamlessly integrate admissions, tuition and billing, and student record systems. We are your all-in-one administrative solution. TUIO automates tasks and lets parents do the work for you. Increase collection rates, save time & money, and improve the overall experience for both you and your families with TUIO. As a self-service solution, parents can register students, make payments and access info without you. Staff are free to focus on other tasks. And, you get your funds the same day parents make an online payment! An all-in-one solution ensures data is collected and transferred in the same way. Effectively use accurate data for waitlists, payment plans, custom reporting, hiring, and more. We never store any financial information on our servers. All sensitive information is tokenized and encrypted directly with the banks to restrict any unauthorized third party access.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    SchoolVoice

    SchoolVoice

    SchoolVoice

    Simplifying communication between schools and parents. Simple predefined actions for happier parents and higher school enrollment. Easy interface and report generation with advanced status monitoring. No more paperwork, expensive communication systems or lost time. Receive updates on-the-go and messages from your child’s school and reply instantly using a set of predefined responses. Messages are automatically assorted by child and school name. Stay informed and be instantly alerted in case of an emergency. Schoolvoice is recalibrating the world of school communication with parents. We took feedback on issues that matter, and delivered an intuitive dashboard and a smart application for schools and parents to enjoy. Our mission is to spread education development globally. Our strategic vision propels us to continuously improve, innovate and deliver a practical solution in any country.
    Starting Price: $1666.00/year
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    illumine

    illumine

    illumine Technology

    illumine is an early learning and childcare software provider. With illumine, early childhood care and education centers can streamline operations, optimize costs, increase admissions, and foster strong parent partnerships - all in one place! Most-loved features: • Billing and finances: Automate invoices, enable convenient payments and simplify your financial processes. • Parent communication: Build genuine, collaborative relationships with parents. Send daily reports, updates, broadcasts, and messages, actively involving parents. • Attendance & leaves: The daily rhythm of check-ins and outs is made easy and error-free with illumine. • Enrollments & Admissions: Track new prospects, efficiently manage waitlists, and gain comprehensive insights from marketing analytics. • Learning & assessments: illumine's intuitive interface simplifies teaching and learning, allowing you to tailor lesson plans and assessments for 25+ curriculum frameworks including EYFS, Montessori and Reggio.
    Starting Price: $10 per user per year
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    Klassly

    Klassly

    Klassroom

    Help students families become better involved in their childs' school life while gaining the support and trust you deserve! With an intuitive layout, Klassly is easy to use for everyone. 97% of teachers choose Klassly for emergency communications with families. Pics, videos, voice memos, docs, events, polls, lists, invites, home-works! Schedule your post in advance, and manage parents comments and reactions. Find the balance between accessibility and privacy. Parents can interact in a structured way managed by the teacher. Private conversations are initiated by teachers and parents can send requests for specific discussions. Also, the teacher can set their available times by activating the "Do not disturb" function. Accessible on iOS and Android devices. It's a new way for families to actively help kids learn. It's safe, all content from the class remain private!
    Starting Price: $59 per class per year
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    Klassboard

    Klassboard

    Klassroom

    With Klassboard, the school principal or superintendent can easily communicate with teachers and families. Watch students learn new things in class every day and support teachers for smooth school-family communication! Managing a school is not child's play. Klassboard facilitates the management, organization and guidance of the school community with a simple and free tool. Send one message to the entire school for all students and families to see. With Klassboard you can create messages and broadcast them to all Klassly classes instantly, or a specific class or students families only. Use instant messages to reach students parents in case of emergencies. Collect valuable information about the impact of your messages.
    Starting Price: $59 per class per year
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    Minga

    Minga

    Minga

    Minga provides all the tools needed to increase student engagement and be a digital home for your entire campus community. By innovating your tool set you have an opportunity to make school life rewarding and safe. The first step is to digitize your school IDs and hall passes. Not only have you improved campus safety, but you have also merged these two tools into one app that is being used every day. With your entire student body on one reliable platform, you can reach them school-wide or personally to bring awareness to events, activities, or anything extracurricular happening within your school community. By measuring and monitoring student engagement and behaviours, you have created an environment that rewards students who are excelling and helps guide the ones who require more attention. Administer, manage and track hall passes across your entire campus. Control and report on usage. Record student movement.
    Starting Price: $800 per year
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    Toddle

    Toddle

    Teacher Tools Pvt. Ltd.

    At Toddle, we are revolutionizing the way teachers work. With Toddle AI, we are taking a giant leap forward in our commitment to provide all teachers with the tools they need to deliver progressive, future-ready education. Toddle provides a unified experience where long-term curriculum planning seamlessly flows into day-to-day teaching & learning, assessments, progress reports, and family communication. Education is no place for a one-size-fits-all approach. We have thus built custom solutions for different curriculum frameworks to make sure that Toddle truly works for you. Toddle works great on any computer or device and seamlessly integrates with your favorite tools. Login to your Toddle accounts securely with a single click using the most popular single sign-on options. Education is no place for a one-size-fits-all approach. We have thus built custom solutions for different curriculum frameworks to make sure that Toddle truly works for you.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Apptegy

    Apptegy

    Apptegy

    Apptegy is an all-in-one communications and branding platform built for K-12 school districts and individual schools. It offers a unified system that combines a drag-and-drop website CMS, district-branded mobile apps, mass alerting and two-way messaging, social-media publishing, automated translations for families, and central content moderation to maintain brand consistency and streamline communication. Through one interface, school leaders can send timely alerts (via SMS, voice, push, email, and social media), manage web and mobile content, enable secure family-teacher messaging, and publish across channels in one click. Apptegy emphasizes putting the school’s brand front and center (rather than highlighting the vendor), equips staff at all levels to be better communicators, and pairs its technology with a strong client-service experience rooted in hospitality and original K-12 communications research.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Kaymbu

    Kaymbu

    Kaymbu

    Strengthen school communities and empower early childhood educators with Kaymbu. As the leading family engagement and classroom documentation software solution, Kaymbu provides early education centers the right tool to help make classroom learning visible. From student portfolios and photo sharing to dynamic photo books and school newsletters, the solution helps strengthen relationships between school and home as well as captures the essence of student development with photo sharing, school newsletters, documentation, messaging, dynamic photo books, and more.
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    Join Our Class

    Join Our Class

    Join Our Class

    Be connected with your kid's school! Join Our Class connects you to your school community and classroom experience with our school directory and optional upgrades for school communications and sign-ups for school events and parent-teacher conferences. Try our free school directory loaded with smart features and find out why parents and teachers love it. Customizable views include only the classes or groups you want to track. Flexible security options allow for designated “room parents” to also post updates. Social features include a map view and professional info for parents with LinkedIn profile integration.
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    Schoology Learning
    Schoology Learning, the leading K-12 learning management system (LMS), is part of the PowerSchool Unified Classroom solution. The system is designed to help schools and districts improve student performance, parent engagement, and overall communication and collaboration. Foster student growth with individualized instruction and equitable access to learning for every student—at home, at school, or anywhere in between.
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    brightwheel

    brightwheel

    brightwheel

    Your complete child care management software solution. Manage attendance, billing, enrollment, learning plans, and parent communication – all from one easy-to-use child care app. More time for what matters. Saves up to 1 hour per day per staff member. No more paper to buy. Works on any device. Differentiate your center. Increase enrollment and parent satisfaction. Streamline your day. Manage attendance, reduce paperwork, and capture learning milestones. Meet licensing requirements, automate invoicing and bill pay, manage staff, and track enrollment. Easily keep parents and guardians up to date with photos, videos, messaging, and more. Keep students and staff safe with contactless check-in, online payments, and digital daily sheets. Reduce likelihood of a COVID-19 flare-up with health screens at check-in and health checks throughout the day.
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    ClassTag

    ClassTag

    ClassTag

    Bringing everyone together when you are apart is easier said than done and that is where ClassTag comes in with endless possibilities. Messages, announcements, videos, pictures, library, calendar, parent-teacher conferences, actionable engagement stats and much more in one place. Parents don’t have to download an app to join the party. ClassTag’s smart messages reach all parents based on their preferred channel (SMS, email, app, web or paper) automatically translated into 100+ languages. Share classroom moments through messages, videos, file libraries and virtual backpacks - all in one place. You send a message, either directly to a parent or to the whole class. Parents automatically receive it however suits them with ClassTag’s unique “smart messaging”. And you don’t have to share your personal deets.
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    SmartPass

    SmartPass

    SmartPass

    Join 2,000+ schools using SmartPass to make their hallway movement smarter, improving student outcomes. Students spend critical instructional time in your hallways. SmartPass helps control the flow of students and ensures they get the most out of the school day. Identify which students are in your hallways and instantly account for them, vital whenever you need to stop all movement in your building. Kick off with your point person for all things SmartPass. We’ll guide you on how to get the most out of SmartPass. Your IT will sync in your accounts from your SIS. You’ll set up your rooms, pass limits, profile pictures, and restrictions. We’re constantly learning from the 100,000+ educators who use SmartPass. We compile best practices for administrators to bring to their schools. We uphold strict data privacy standards to safeguard your school's and students’ information, ensuring confidentiality and protection.
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    Bloomz

    Bloomz

    Bloomz

    Take charge of your school and district communication. Bloomz is the only app that combines all aspects of the district, school and class communication, coordination, and behavior management in one powerful, easy-to-use platform. Are your teachers & schools using many point apps to communicate with families leading to frustrated parents? The proliferation of many specific-use apps from District down to Classrooms like School Messenger, Remind, ClassDojo, SeeSaw, ClassTag, and others in your schools frustrates your parents requiring them to jump from app to app, distresses your teachers with too many apps to learn, and amplifies security and data risks, but more importantly, impacts your student achievement. Fortunately, there is Bloomz, the only ONE-STOP solution! Bloomz' unified parent communication approach has a real impact on your school’s performance. And we have the receipts to prove it.
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