Comparison

Teacher Aide Pro vs KoolGround

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Teacher Aide Pro

Manage student attendance, grades, and seating charts with ease. Identify at-risk students and communicate with parents and advisors through bulk email. Sync rosters from Google Classroom and export grades to other systems.

Highlights
  • Attendance tracking
  • Gradebook management
  • Seating chart creation
  • At-risk student identification
  • Bulk email notifications
  • Google Classroom roster sync
  • Grade export to grading systems
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Designed by a teacher, for teachers! • Attendance, Gradebook & Seating Chart • Variety of PDF reports • Identify students at-risk due to attendance or grades • Easily notify students, parents and advisors with bulk email. • Easily sync student roster from Google Classroom • Export grades to Schoolloop and other grading systems Teacher Aide Pro allows use of the attendance and gradebook for 1 class for free. An auto-renewable monthly subscription supports up to 20 classes for a maximum of 6 terms. Access to additional features such as the seating chart, PDF reports and the At-Risk student screen for all classes. More updates will continue to arrive monthly. Autorenewable Subscription Details To access additional features the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable monthly subscription. This means the subscription automatically renews 24 hours before the end of the subscription date. Auto renewable subscriptions can be managed from the user iTunes account, and a link is provided in the subscription screen while in the app. All future updates are included with the auto renewable monthly subscription. The subscription may be cancelled for any future months, and the user will still have access to the data, only the additional features will be disabled. Please email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com with any questions or suggestions. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeacherAidePro

About

KoolGround

Streamline classroom management with features for attendance, assignments, grading, and communication. This app helps educators save time and paper by centralizing tasks and improving parent-teacher engagement.

Highlights
  • Automated attendance tracking
  • Paperless assignment creation and collection
  • Integrated gradebook with bulk editing
  • Class news and parent communication
  • Parent access to student progress
  • Detailed class and student reports
Features
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KoolGround is the easiest and fastest way to automate your classroom tasks. It is a simple and beautiful app for teachers, students, and parents. * Attendance: record attendance in class and after-school care and activities * Assignments: create, share, collect, review, comment, and grade – all in one place, paperlessly * Gradebook: fully synced with assignments provides easy to use bulk edit and tools to excuse and drop individual grades * Class news: a simple way to improve communication with students and parents and more: * Parent access: to keep parents informed on their child progress * Reports: for the entire class, or only for particular students * Unlimited classes and students * Invite more teachers to teach classes together KoolGround saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, share assignments, communicate, and stay organized. KoolGround contains no ads and never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes. We know - your passion is teaching! Our goal is to work hard to help automate your classroom tasks so you can focus on teaching our kids! Thank you! Privacy Policy: https://koolground.com/privacy Terms Of Service: https://koolground.com/terms

Screenshots

Teacher Aide Pro4 screens
KoolGround4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Teacher Aide Pro at 60% against KoolGround's 0%. Teacher Aide Pro also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months). KoolGround's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Teacher Aide Pro sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. KoolGround asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Teacher Aide Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Teacher Aide Pro has 113 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Teacher Aide Pro's written reviews are positive against 0% of KoolGround's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Teacher Aide Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, KoolGround every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Teacher Aide Pro versus KoolGround: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeacher Aide ProKoolGround
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (113 ratings) — better2.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings113 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGlen BothaC FIVE Inc

Customer experience

Teacher Aide Pro

All ratings113 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral13.3%
Negative26.7%

KoolGround

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Teacher Aide Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Features7 Days trial$6.991 Month
None

KoolGround

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Teacher Aide Pro free?
Teacher Aide Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KoolGround free?
KoolGround is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Teacher Aide Pro or KoolGround?
Teacher Aide Pro is rated higher. Teacher Aide Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 113 ratings, while KoolGround averages 2.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Teacher Aide Pro or KoolGround have ads?
Neither Teacher Aide Pro nor KoolGround shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Teacher Aide Pro or KoolGround?
Teacher Aide Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, and KoolGround every 9 months. Most recently, Teacher Aide Pro was updated on October 10, 2026 and KoolGround on October 6, 2026.

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