5 vs Aeries Teacher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5
This app helps manage student data for educational institutions. It allows users to track school activities, behaviors, interventions, and individuals using barcode scanning or device camera.
- Manage student data
- Track school activities
- Record behaviors and interventions
- Add hall passes
- Check-in individuals at events
- Barcode scanner support
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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 Teacher
Manage student attendance, gradebooks, and assignments on the go. Access student information and communications directly from your mobile device. Includes tools for classroom management and student engagement.
- Take attendance and update lunch counts
- Manage gradebook assignments and grades
- View and update student basic information
- Access Aeries Communications portal
- Classroom management tools like student grouping
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Take your Aeries data with you on the go. Take attendance, manage gradebook assignments, grades and access Aeries Communications right from the palm of your hand. • Attendance - take attendance, update lunch count • Gradebook - view, update and create assignments; grade assignments; import and export assignments • Student basic information • Student class summary • Student Contacts • In-app access to your Aeries Communications portal (if enabled at your district) • Class Tools - randomly pick a student, create groups, memorize students' names game
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Verdict
5 and Aeries Teacher are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.9 for 5 against 1.9 for Aeries Teacher. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 42 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 8% of 5's written reviews are positive against 0% of Aeries Teacher's.
5 ships an update monthly, Aeries Teacher every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | Aeries Teacher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (25 ratings) | 1.9 (42 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 42 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| 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 | 51 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | Aeries Software, Inc |
Customer experience
5
Aeries Teacher
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
Aeries Teacher
No in-app purchases
