What Appscho does

AppScho SAS is a French education-technology company founded in 2014 in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (greater Paris) that builds white-label mobile campus applications for higher-education institutions. The platform pairs native iOS and Android applications — developed in-house rather than via cross-platform frameworks — with a web-based back-office ("My AppScho") and an API-enabled middleware layer that connects student devices to institutional ERP, LMS (Moodle), authentication, planning, and other systems via web services. AppScho was the first dedicated mobile-application solution for French higher education and today serves more than 100 universities, business schools, and engineering schools including HEC Paris, Sciences Po, EDHEC, ESSEC, CentraleSupélec, and Université d'Angers, with deployments on French and international campuses and French/English language support.

The product surface includes schedule, grades, attendance, digital student card (with ISIC partnership), indoor campus navigation, push notifications, knowledge base, library, CROUS menus, transport, payments, housing, administrative procedures, directory, and news/event modules, plus paid add-on modules for satisfaction surveys and geolocated problem reporting. Revenue is generated through quote-based annual SaaS subscriptions tied to institution size and feature scope, with premium modules sold as recurring add-ons; pricing is not publicly disclosed. The go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales with personalized demos, a documented 6-step implementation process, and dedicated project managers, supported by content marketing, customer case studies, webinars, and EdTech media relations.

AppScho was acquired by French EdTech company Edusign (post-2019) and now operates as the "AppScho by Edusign" brand while remaining focused on mobile campus solutions. The company has 45+ employees, holds €3.5M in capital social, and has raised €1.1M in disclosed funding (Feb 2018, led by EDUCAPITAL with Bpifrance and Karista). Its competitive positioning rests on first-mover incumbency in French higher-education mobile, deep ERP/LMS integration switching costs, and a zero-personal-data-storage architecture framed as a GDPR-aligned trust differentiator.

Name

Appscho

Legal name

APPSCHO SAS

Website

https://appscho.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

AppScho provides white-label native mobile campus applications and a web-based back-office for higher-education institutions, integrating with ERP, LMS, and student-card systems. Founded in 2014 in France, it serves 100+ universities and business schools, now operating as a brand under Edusign.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Mobile Platform

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Custom Application Development (Web/Mobile/Desktop) (BPAEAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Enterprise & Private App Stores (MDM/MAM) (BPAMADAE)

Keywords

• Campus mobile applications
• Higher education software
• University mobile platform
• Student engagement apps
• Education ERP integration

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Mobile Application Platform Subscription: Annual subscription model providing access to the mobile application platform, including app development, hosting, maintenance, updates (7 per year), and back-office management tools. Pricing is quote-based and varies by institution size and feature requirements.
2. Premium Modules (Add-ons): Additional paid modules including satisfaction surveys and problem reporting functionality that extend the core application capabilities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

AppScho provides a white-label native iOS and Android mobile campus application that allows students of higher education institutions to manage their academic life (schedules, grades, attendance, digital student ID, campus navigation, push notifications) from their smartphones. The mobile application is paired with My AppScho, a web-based back-office for institutional administrators to manage content, send push messages, and analyze engagement, and AppScho Connect, a centralized hub for all platform services. The platform integrates via web services with institutional ERP, LMS (e.g., Moodle), authentication, and planning systems.

Product overview

AppScho offers a mobile campus solution comprising a white-label mobile application (AppScho Mobile Campus Application) for higher education institutions, paired with a web-based administration platform (My AppScho) for content and user management. The core platform includes integrated features such as schedules, grades, attendance tracking, student cards, campus maps, push messaging, and a knowledge base. Additional paid modules expand functionality to include problem reporting and satisfaction surveys. The platform integrates with institutional systems including ERP, LMS (Moodle), and JobTeaser, while offering ISIC student card partnership for international discounts. Institutions benefit from AppScho Connect for unified service access and 7 app updates per year as part of the subscription service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AppScho Mobile Campus Application White-label native iOS and Android mobile application for higher education institutions, enabling students to manage their academic life (schedules, grades, attendance, digital student ID, campus navigation, push notifications) from their smartphone. Deployed under each institution's own brand name and colors.
• My AppScho (Back-office Platform) Web-based content management and administration platform for the AppScho mobile campus application. Allows institutional administrators to manage content in real time, push targeted messages, update the knowledge base, manage campus maps, profile users, and access engagement analytics.
• AppScho Connect Centralized access hub providing a single entry point to all AppScho services, including My AppScho, update history, and available platform features for client institutions.
• Premium Modules Bundle (Satisfaction Surveys and Problem Reporting add-ons) Optional paid add-on modules for the AppScho platform: (1) Satisfaction Survey Module enabling institutions to create 1-6 question questionnaires with targeted distribution and PDF/Excel export; (2) Problem Reporting Module enabling students to report non-urgent facility issues with classification, location, photos, and geolocation for facilities management response.

Quantifiable outcome

• 9,000 daily active users achieved at Université d'Angers with successful launch campaign
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and supporting.

• ISIC (International Student Identity Card)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2019Since 1953, ISIC provides international student identity cards. AppScho integrates ISIC digital student cards into its mobile applications, giving students access to their dematerialized student card and over 150,000 ISIC discounts worldwide. This partnership enhances the digital student card feature with international recognition and discount benefits.
• EdusignflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerEdusign is the parent company of AppScho. AppScho was acquired by Edusign, a French company. The combined entity offers complementary digital services for higher education institutions, with Edusign providing document management and AppScho providing mobile campus solutions.
• StripesupportingTechnology or IntegrationStripe handles payment processing for AppScho's services. Credit card information is processed securely through Stripe's payment gateway and is not stored on AppScho's servers.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Eesysoft: Eesysoft provides in-app messaging and digital adoption tooling for higher-education LMS and campus platforms — overlapping with AppScho's push messaging and student-engagement value proposition, though with a narrower feature set.

Broad incumbents

• Anthology (Blackboard): Anthology, the company formed from Blackboard's combination with other EdTech assets, offers a broad higher-education suite that includes campus engagement features — a large incumbent whose bundled offerings compete with AppScho at the institutional level.
• Workday Student: Workday Student is the student information system module of Workday's enterprise suite, increasingly embedding mobile student-experience features that overlap with AppScho's value proposition for institutions standardizing on Workday.
• Blackbaud: Blackbaud is a large education and nonprofit software provider that acquired OOHLALA Mobile — its broader portfolio (CRM, SIS, engagement) competes at the institutional level with AppScho for the same higher-education budgets.

Direct peers

• Modo Labs: Modo Labs offers a no-code campus engagement platform powering mobile apps for universities — directly comparable to AppScho's white-label higher-education mobile solution, serving the same institutional buyer with similar push-notification, schedule, and campus-life features.
• Ready Education: Ready Education builds campus engagement apps for higher education, integrating with SIS/ERP systems to deliver student-facing experiences — closely aligned with AppScho's product, target customers, and integration-led approach.
• Campus Labs: Campus Labs offers a student engagement and campus communities platform used by higher-education institutions — overlapping with AppScho in the campus engagement and institutional SaaS layer, though with a broader portfolio of tools.
• OOHLALA Mobile: OOHLALA Mobile (acquired by Blackbaud) provides a student engagement platform with branded campus apps for universities — a direct competitor in the same white-label campus app category with comparable feature sets.
• ConexED: ConexED provides a student engagement platform with mobile apps, scheduling, and virtual services for colleges and universities — comparable to AppScho in target market and core functionality, particularly around student-facing mobile experiences.

Others

• Edusign: Edusign is the parent company of AppScho and provides electronic signature and document management for higher education — adjacent rather than competing, but operationally intertwined and a key strategic owner of AppScho's go-to-market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/appscho
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/appscho

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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