5 vs CA Dashboard
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 Dashboard
Access school and district progress data to inform decisions for improving student learning. This app provides insights into performance across state measures and local indicators, helping identify strengths and areas for improvement.
- Access school and district progress
- Improve student learning
- Identify strengths and weaknesses
- View state performance measures
- Track local indicator measures
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The CA Dashboard mobile app provides easy access for parents and educators on school and district progress so they can participate in decisions to improve student learning. Californians can use the CA Dashboard mobile app to easily access information based on the California School Dashboard. The Dashboard is California’s new accountability system and helps parents and educators identify strengths and areas for improvement. Through the Dashboard, California reports how districts, schools (including alternative schools serving high-risk students), and student groups are performing across state measures and responding to local indicator measures.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CA Dashboard at 3.7 against 5's 1.8. 5's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 Dashboard holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 5 has 24 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 8% of 5's written reviews are positive against 0% of CA Dashboard'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 Dashboard every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | CA Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (24 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | California Department of Education |
Customer experience
5
CA Dashboard
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
CA Dashboard
No in-app purchases
