School Connection vs School Stream

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.

School Stream is a school communication app for connecting schools with families. Schools can send targeted notices, reminders and newsletters, and create digital forms for permission slips, excursions and absences, including digital signatures. Its messaging supports unlimited conversations between school and home, with private messages to families and groups. Schools can publish event details such as permission notes, times and maps, and sync online calendars. Payments can be collected through School Stream Forms, with processing handled by Stripe. On-demand translation supports over 100 languages. Schools can see who has read notices and when, and manage parent accounts and groups. School Stream runs on Android, iOS and the web. Families have free access; school pricing is on request, with the school plan billed annually. The company says its servers are in AWS’s Sydney region in Australia, and that data at rest uses 256-bit AES encryption while services use at least TLS 1.2. Each school is assigned a Customer Success Manager for support and training.