Skie vs Blocksi

What Blocksi is

Blocksi's site describes a K-12 platform with internet content filtering, a classroom suite, student safety and app usage insights. Add-ons include a hybrid appliance, a digital hall pass, class notes and a parent dashboard. It lists role bundles for admins, teachers, delegates and parents, and says it has over 500 districts and 3 million users, which is the maker's own claim.

How it runs on Android

The datasheet and site list Android among supported platforms, with an agent for each operating system. Anti-theft tools include geolocation, remote lock and data wipe. We could not find Android-specific documentation on which classroom or anti-theft features apply, and the lost-device help article walks through a Google Admin console setup that is written around Chromebooks. A school with Android tablets should ask Blocksi to confirm.

What Skie adds

Skie is not a classroom screen tool. It is the device owner on Android, so the rules are enforced by Android itself. It blocks factory reset, safe mode, developer options and adb, allows apps per group, and locks a filtering DNS on the device. Schedules change app sets for school hours, study blocks and night mode, and a hostel night mode keeps calls allowed.

Lost mode locks the device, shows a contact message, tracks it and builds a police-report evidence pack. Remote erase and remote screen view are not available yet.

Using them together

Blocksi can serve Chromebooks and laptops while Skie manages the Android tablets, since a device has only one device owner. A school that runs Blocksi's Android agent on a Skie-managed tablet would have to check that the agent installs under Skie's allow list.

Cost

Both are quote-based. Skie is seat-based, one device per seat, and does not sell hardware. Each device needs one fresh setup or reset.

A lesson, a night and a lost tablet

Blocksi's pitch is breadth: one vendor for filtering, classroom screens, hall passes and a parent dashboard across several operating systems. That breadth means the Android agent is one of several clients. Skie goes narrow and deep on Android: policy switches for each protection, a compliance read-back after every change and a breach centre that flags a device that stops checking in. If your fleet is mostly Android, depth on that platform is the thing to compare when you ask both vendors for a demo.

When each one is the better fit

Blocksi is the better fit in these situations. You need a filter and classroom screens across Chromebooks, Windows and Mac. You want hall passes and class-level tools in the same vendor. You use Google Classroom or Canvas and want integrations.

Skie is the better fit in these situations. Your devices are Android phones or tablets that need device-owner enforcement. You need hostel night mode and school-hour schedules. You want evidence for a police report if a tablet is stolen. You want a provisioning app for batches of tablets.

How setup with Skie works

Skie is Android device management software for parents, schools, hostels and organisations. It runs as the Android device owner, so the rules are enforced by Android itself. It works on any Android 12 or newer phone or tablet, in any country where the device has Google Play services. Skie is software, so a school uses the devices it already owns or buys its own.

Android only allows device-owner management on a device that has not been set up, so each device needs one fresh setup or reset, and any Google account must be removed first. New device models go through a one-time model review. The school creates a group, opens a provisioning session for it, and uses the Skie Provision app from Google Play or a laptop with adb. Each device gets a one-time enrolment token, and Wi-Fi profiles are stored encrypted. Live progress and failure reasons show on screen.

After that the group's policy and app list apply, schedules run on their own, and the dashboard shows a compliance score for each device. Skie does not include a mobile plan, so Wi-Fi-only tablets work for most features and phones keep the carrier the school already uses.

What we could not verify

Some facts were not public when we checked in November 2026: Blocksi price list. Which classroom and anti-theft features work on Android. Data hosting regions. Countries served. Where a feature is marked as not documented, it may exist, so ask the maker directly before deciding.