5 vs Aeries EM2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5
This app allows educators to manage student data, including school activities, behaviors, and event check-ins. It supports barcode scanning for efficient event and intervention tracking on iOS devices.
- Manage student data
- Track school activities and events
- Record behaviors and interventions
- Check-in individuals at events
- Bluetooth barcode scanner support
- Device camera for check-ins
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Manage 5-Star Students data on your iPhone or iPad device! View school activities, events, behaviors, interventions, students, faculty, community members, and guests. Add hall passes, update activity participants, add behavior occurrences and check-in individuals at events or interventions using a Bluetooth barcode scanner or your device camera.
Aeries EM2
This app provides authorized school district personnel with secure, offline access to essential student information. It allows for caching of contact, discipline, medical, class, and attendance data for use during emergencies when network access is unavailable.
- Offline student data caching
- Access to contact information
- View discipline records
- Medical information access
- Class and attendance details
- Secure access for school staff
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**FOR SCHOOL DISTRCT PERSONNEL ONLY!** This app is not intended for the general public, and cannot be used to check student information by anyone other than school district personnel. Aeries EM2 (Emergency Management App Version 2) is the completely rewritten version of the Aeries Emergency Management Tool (EMT). It provides remote access to student information contained in the Aeries Student Information System. This application is designed to interface with an existing Aeries SIS web setup. Aeries EM2 provides school-site personnel access to basic student, contact, discipline, medical, class and attendance information. Any of this data can be cached for offline use. This is useful during emergency situations where access to a computer or network is not available. ** This application is only available to school districts that have a license key installed for use. ** For Demo Access, simply start the application, search and select “Eagle Unified School District (demo)”, and login using the user name "alok" and password "testing".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Aeries EM2 at 2.4 against 5's 1.8. 5's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Aeries EM2 holds the better App Store score, 2.4 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of 5's written reviews are positive against 14% of Aeries EM2's.
5 ships an update every 3 weeks, Aeries EM2 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | Aeries EM2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (24 ratings) | 2.4 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews | 14.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | Aeries Software, Inc |
Customer experience
5
Aeries EM2
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
Aeries EM2
No in-app purchases
