5 vs ADMINS | TalkingPoints
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.
ADMINS | TalkingPoints
This app enables school administrators to communicate with families via two-way messaging, announcements, and file sharing. It supports over 150 languages with automatic translation and can reach individuals, groups, or the entire school community.
- Two-way messaging with families
- Automatic translation in 150+ languages
- Send messages to individuals, groups, or the whole school
- Attach pictures, videos, and files
- Messages delivered via text or app
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The TalkingPoints for Admins app helps admins stay connected to their school community while on the go. Through this app, you can send messages and announcements from your school inbox or personal inbox and receive replies from families. TalkingPoints will continue adding to and improving the mobile app to maximize effective engagement for our on-the-go administrators. With the TalkingPoints for Admins app, you can: • communicate with families through 2-way messaging, with automatic translation in 150+ languages • quickly send messages to one parent, a group of family contacts, a class, or the entire school • engage with families in an equitable way by sending messages that arrive via text message or the TalkingPoints for Families app • attach pictures, videos and files to your messages TalkingPoints for Admins is for school administrators whose school or district partners with TalkingPoints.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ADMINS | TalkingPoints at 4.0 against 5's 1.8. 5's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 4). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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.
ADMINS | TalkingPoints holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 5 has 24 ratings behind it against 4, 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 ADMINS | TalkingPoints's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 | ADMINS | TalkingPoints |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (24 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 7.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 5 Star Students Solutions LLC | TalkingPoints Corp |
Customer experience
5
ADMINS | TalkingPoints
In-app purchases
5
No in-app purchases
ADMINS | TalkingPoints
No in-app purchases
