5 vs SmartScan Go
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
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
SmartScan Go
Instantly scan assessment answer forms using your device's camera for immediate results. Teachers can efficiently track scanned forms and identify missing submissions, with all data sent to Mastery Manager for comprehensive reporting.
- Scan answer forms with device camera
- Instant assessment results for students
- Track scanned and missing forms
- Automatic data submission to Mastery Manager
- Teacher progress monitoring
Read full descriptionHide full description
SmartScan allows you to scan Mastery Manager answer forms on the fly by using your device's camera. Students can easily scan their assessment and get instant results. Teachers can scan multiple answer forms for any assessment while the app keeps track of forms scanned. Easily see what Mastery Manager forms have been scored and what forms are still missing. All results will be immediately sent to Mastery Manager for advanced reporting. The SmartScan App requires a subscription to Mastery Manager and the SmartScan Module to be turned on.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartScan Go at 3.7 against 5's 1.9. SmartScan Go also leads on review sentiment (17% vs 8%). 5's advantage is monetization model (free vs subscription) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SmartScan Go holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 5 has 25 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 8% of 5's written reviews are positive against 17% of SmartScan Go's.
5 ships an update every 3 weeks, SmartScan Go every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | 5 | SmartScan Go |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (25 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | Goldstar Learning, Inc. |
Customer experience
5
SmartScan Go
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
SmartScan Go
No in-app purchases
