5 vs CA Standards
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.
CA Standards
Access California content standards for various subjects, including Arts, Math, and Science. Educators can search, filter, and sort standards to inform instruction and assessment design. The app reflects input from state educators and approved by educational commissions.
- Access to California content standards
- Search, filter, and sort standards
- Supports multiple subject areas
- Informs instruction and assessment
- Reflects educator input
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The CA Standards mobile app provides quick, targeted access to California content standards. California educators can use the mobile app for quick access to the Arts, Career Technical Education, Computer Science, English Language Arts, English Language Development, Health Education, History–Social Science, Mathematics, Physical Education, School Library, Science, and World Languages content standards they rely on to design the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level. Use the app to search, filter, and sort standards to isolate specific content, identify standards common across disciplines, and inform decisions around instruction and assessment. The content standards in the CA Content Standards mobile app reflect the input of educators from across the state, and the approval of the Instructional Quality Commission and the State Board of Education. For more information on standards, curriculum, and instructional resources, or to share ways the app can better support your work, contact Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division at the California Department of Education.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CA Standards at 3.3 against 5's 1.9. CA Standards also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). 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.
CA Standards holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 8% of 5's written reviews are positive against 0% of CA Standards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
5 ships an update every 3 weeks, CA Standards every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | CA Standards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (25 ratings) | 3.3 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 13 |
| 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 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | California Department of Education |
Customer experience
5
CA Standards
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
CA Standards
No in-app purchases
