ClassCharts Students vs ORB Participant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ClassCharts Students
This app allows students to monitor their academic progress and behavior in real-time. Students can view their achievements and, if enabled by their school, redeem earned points for rewards.
- View real-time progress
- Track student behavior
- Cash in points for rewards
- Receive student code from school
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Class Charts is behaviour management software used by teachers to record and track student achievement and behaviour. This is the Class Charts App for Students which allows students to view their progress in real time and even cash in their points for rewards if enabled by the school. In order to use the Class Charts App for Students you need to be provided with a student code by your school.
ORB Participant
Track your progress for The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award. Log activities, manage your sections, and submit them to your Assessor and Award Leader for completion, all from your mobile device.
- Manage Award progress
- Set up activities
- Create progress logs
- Submit Award sections
- Assessor and Leader approval
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This application was developed by The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation as a simple and fast tool to assist Award participants in completing their Award, anytime anywhere. The participant is able to manage their Award progress using the App. They can set up activities, create logs for their progress and also send their Award sections to their Assessor and Award Leader for completion. Your Award must be using the latest version of the Online Record Book system (sometimes known as "ORB Next Generation") and have a valid participant login to the system in order to be able to use this App.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ORB Participant at 3.1 against ClassCharts Students's 2.3. ORB Participant also leads on review sentiment (32% vs 21%) and ratings volume (66 vs 19). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ORB Participant holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 66 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 21% of ClassCharts Students's written reviews are positive against 32% of ORB Participant's.
ClassCharts Students ships an update every 7 months, ORB Participant every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ClassCharts Students | ORB Participant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (19 ratings) | 3.1 (66 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.7% of reviews | 31.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TES Global | The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation |
Customer experience
ClassCharts Students
ORB Participant
User reviews
ClassCharts Students
From 19 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for tracking homework, behavior, and timetables
- 🚀 Easy to navigate and use
- 💡 Useful for students to monitor their own progress
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and unreliable, often crashes or freezes
- 🤯 Overwhelming and confusing user interface
- 🔒 Concerns about privacy and data security
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🤬 Causes stress and anxiety for students
ORB Participant
From 66 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use interface for logging hours
- 🚀 Convenient mobile access for on-the-go logging
- ✅ Reliable for basic activity tracking
- 📱 Simple and straightforward design
- ⭐ Helpful for Duke of Edinburgh participants
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- ⚠️ Hours calculation errors and inaccuracies
- 🔌 Network error messages despite working connection
- ❌ Limited editing capabilities after submission
- 😤 Slow and laggy performance
Bugs and requests
ClassCharts Students
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent login issues and lost login credentials
- Inaccurate or missing information on timetables and assignments
- Inconsistent behavior tracking and reporting
Requested features
4 requests- Add notifications for homework deadlines
- Improve the user interface and make it more intuitive
- Implement a dark mode option
- Allow students to message teachers directly within the app
ORB Participant
Reported bugs
18 issues- Hours not accumulating correctly - logs multiple hours as single hour
- Progress bar not increasing when adding logs
- Network error messages appearing despite valid connection
- App crashes when entering journey observations
- App crashes when editing and resubmitting assessments
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- Login logout issues preventing re-access
- Payment details field not accepting input during registration
- Award leader change not persisting after switching schools
- Confirmation buttons not scaling properly on mobile screens
- Photo/link attachment not saving on iPhone
- Copy-paste functionality only adding partial text
- Long text input being deleted when submitting
- Cannot delete additional activities even without logs
- Approval emails not being received by assessors
- Assessments getting stuck in 'waiting for approval' state
- App not loading after login despite successful authentication
- Persistent notification bubble that won't disappear
- Inconsistent hour calculations across activities
Requested features
17 requests- Ability to edit activities and submissions after approval
- Resend assessment/approval functionality
- Message/comment system between users and leaders
- View approved evidence and journey details after submission
- Edit activity names if misspelled
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- Support for 5-minute time intervals instead of 15-minute
- Delete authorized awards option
- Change major activity selection
- Upload photos from files instead of gallery only
- Edit overview and plan sections of adventurous journey
- Clearer information about hour reset timing
- Include Duke of Ed information within the app
- Support for sub-submissions in log details
- Resend assessment button on mobile app (exists on website)
- Larger description text box with line break support
- Countdown percentage for remaining award completion
- Remove persistent notification badges
In-app purchases
ClassCharts Students
No in-app purchases
ORB Participant
No in-app purchases
Questions
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