Bloomz vs School Connection

Bloomz is a K-12 school platform for communication, translation, attendance, behavior and social-emotional learning, forms, and school websites. It supports two-way messages and alerts through its app, email, SMS, and voice, and says its full interface is translated into more than 250 languages. Bloomz lists student information system integrations and single sign-on options including Clever, PowerSchool, and ClassLink. It describes its audience as K-12 schools and districts, including multilingual families, and is available on desktop and as iPhone and Android apps. Bloomz says every tier is free for teachers and families, while its help center also describes a Teacher Free tier limited to one class. Paid plans are listed at $3 a year for Essentials, $5 a year for Premium, $7 a year for Complete, and $11 a year for 360. These are starting rates, annual minimums may apply, and exact quotes depend on enrollment and selected modules. Bloomz states it is FERPA and COPPA compliant, iKeepSafe certified, and uses encryption in transit and at rest. It says its cloud hosting uses SOC 2-certified infrastructure from AWS and Microsoft Azure.

School Connection is a mobile-first communication platform for schools and districts, combining apps, SMS, voice, email, websites, social media, and digital signage. Staff can prepare a message once and distribute it across channels. Branded iOS and Android apps provide push notifications, calendars, schedules, two-way chat, staff messaging, and Appazur Forms; Google Translate and SMS fallback are supported. Mass Notification can send push alerts, email, SMS, and automated calls to family contacts, and post to websites and social media. Student-specific messages can cover absences, lunch balances, and PDF documents such as report cards or schedules. Listed SIS connections include Aeries, Aspen/MyEducationBC, Edsembli, Infinite Campus, MySchoolManager, PowerSchool, Skyward, and Synergy, with automated SFTP and manual uploads. Google and Microsoft integrations include their listed sign-in, calendar, and forms tools. Appazur says customer data is hosted on servers physically located in Canada. A free trial is offered to educational-institution staff, with no duration specified.