Cognia Observations vs CrateIt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cognia Observations
This app provides educators with three distinct tools to gather data on classroom environments and instructional practices. It helps in developing insights, fostering conversations between leaders and teachers, and implementing strategies for student success. Observations can be conducted online or offline, with immediate PDF access and detailed reporting capabilities.
- Three observation tools in one
- Learner-centric engagement measurement
- Early learning environment assessment
- Formative teacher observation
- Online and offline observation capability
- Immediate PDF report access
- System-level observation management
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Cognia offers three powerful observation tools in one convenient app. Independent use of the tools help educators gather data to develop classroom insights, drive purposeful conversations between school leaders and teachers, and deliver effective strategies for student success. Effective Learning Environments Observation Tool® (eleot) See the impact of instruction by focusing on your most important stakeholders—your students. The eleot® is a learner-centric classroom observation tool that provides a range of items to measure students’ engagement, collaboration, and dispositions, indicating their responsiveness to the learning environment. Environmental Rating for Early Learning™ (erel) Ensure a brighter future for the next generation by gaining insights on practices and behaviors of both your youngest learners and the adults who influence the early learning environment. The erel™ is a research-based early learning classroom observation tool that examines elements of effective classroom environments essential for fostering the optimal health, safety, and educational development of young children, infant to kindergarten. Teacher Observation Tool Support your teachers and strengthen instructional practices with short, formative observations collecting actionable feedback that improves teaching and learning and helps students thrive. With this proprietary observation tool, administrators can gather and interpret data for focused discussions on teaching practices and build capacity for effective learning environments. Use the Cognia® Observations app to: • Conduct observations online or offline and take notes as you go. • Upload offline observations later when internet access is available. • Receive immediate access to a PDF copy of an observation. • Create and distribute detailed reports of observations from the desktop application. • Create, view, and manage observations at the system level and for associated institutions.
CrateIt
Easily upload documents to your compliance crate by scanning them directly within the app. Drag and drop files for quick organization. This app requires a school district's paid subscription to a 806 Technologies compliance crate product.
- Scan documents
- Drag and drop file upload
- Compliance crate integration
- Device registration
- Free to use with subscription
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Need to quickly upload documentation into your compliance crate? CrateIt! Open the CrateIt app, scan your documents and drag and drop the file into your crate. CrateIt is FREE with your school districts paid subscription to one of 806 Technologies compliance crate products. Download CrateIt and register your device by logging into your compliance crate on your computer and navigating to Manage Account > Mobile Devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CrateIt at 4.0 against Cognia Observations's 1.8. CrateIt also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 13 months). Cognia Observations's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
CrateIt holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cognia Observations has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cognia Observations ships an update every 13 months, CrateIt every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cognia Observations | CrateIt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (17 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Advance Education, Inc. | 806 Technologies, Inc. |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Cognia Observations
No in-app purchases
CrateIt
No in-app purchases
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