Comparison

ActivCast Sender vs Mosyle School

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ActivCast Sender

This app allows teachers and students to wirelessly share their device screens with the entire class. It facilitates the display of content, ideas, and applications for collaborative learning.

Highlights
  • Wireless content mirroring
  • Share ideas and apps
  • Classroom display
  • Device to projector/screen
  • Educational collaboration
Features
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Teachers and students can use ActivCast to wirelessly mirror their content, ideas and apps on their device to the entire class.

About

Mosyle School

This tool simplifies the management of Apple devices for educational institutions, enabling secure student device usage for learning. It offers robust classroom management features to minimize distractions and enhance student focus, while providing IT staff and teachers with shared control and real-time insights.

Highlights
  • Apple device deployment and configuration
  • Classroom distraction elimination
  • Student focus monitoring
  • Internet access regulation
  • App management and installation
  • Real-time device inventory and reports
  • Shared IT and teacher management
Features
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Mosyle School is an MDM solution designed exclusively for Education that streamlines the Apple device management process, simplifies iPad, Mac and Apple TV deployments for Schools and Districts, while ensuring students safely utilize devices for learning. It’s easy to set up, manage, and maintain, while being powerful enough to create the ideal learning environment for any School or District. THE BEST MDM SOLUTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF ALL OF APPLE’S PROGRAM AND OS FEATURES: - Configure all management settings with Mosyle School to harness all Apple’s education features and deployment programs; - Connect Mosyle School with Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Program Purchase to assign devices, apps, and configure device settings, apps, and books; - Get the most out of Apple’s Shared iPad and the Classroom App for iPad; UNIQUE & EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TOOLS: - Quickly eliminate any distractions from the devices; - Ensure student focus and attention is within the intended educational application; - Easily assess students during class to evaluate student progress; - Check compliance of student devices and solve any issues right in the classroom; - Customize and regulate student Internet access during class time; - Select apps allowed during class and remotely install them on student devices.
 AN ALWAYS-ON, CLOUD-BASED & SCALABLE SOLUTION TO SIMPLIFY DEPLOYMENTS: - Quickly take inventory and view reports of your device fleet in real time; - Shared management between IT Staff and Teachers; - Create time-based policies and restrictions – to work whether it’s before, during or after school; - Receive notifications when specific events occur across the managed device fleet; - Implement in any type of deployment model (BYOD, School Owned, 1:1 and Shared); - Rapid and easy device enrollment processes and flows; - Automatic load-balancing and fault tolerance across multiple Tier 3 data centers, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. 
 *Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Mosyle School is designed to embrace and fully integrate with Apple’s new education features, and deployment programs (Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Purchase Program). We're so excited with all the new possibilities we decided to include all necessary configuration with them in our basic, free plan. No hidden costs!

Screenshots

ActivCast Sender4 screens
Mosyle School4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ActivCast Sender at 3.0 against Mosyle School's 1.8. ActivCast Sender also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.4). Mosyle School's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (92 vs 12). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ActivCast Sender holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mosyle School has 92 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 13% and 13% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ActivCast Sender ships an update every 9 months, Mosyle School every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ActivCast Sender versus Mosyle School: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActivCast SenderMosyle School
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (12 ratings) — better1.8 (92 ratings)
Positive reviews12.5% of reviews13.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1292 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPrometheanMosyle

Customer experience

ActivCast Sender

All ratings12 ratings
Positive41.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative75.0%

Mosyle School

All ratings91 ratings
Positive20.9%
Neutral2.2%
Negative76.9%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive13.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.0%

Bugs and requests

ActivCast Sender

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Mosyle School

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Device management starts randomly
  • Apps disappear and cannot be recovered
  • App won't open during Zoom meetings
  • App crashes everything
  • App rearranges apps alphabetically
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  • App slows down device speed

Requested features

7 requests
  • Allow users to uninstall
  • Allow users to keep apps in original place
  • Add more apps to the store
  • Admin console for QR codes
  • Allow users to play games during free periods/lunch
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  • Fix app rearrangement issue
  • Allow users to control screen recording permissions

In-app purchases

None

ActivCast Sender

No in-app purchases

None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ActivCast Sender free?
ActivCast Sender is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ActivCast Sender or Mosyle School?
ActivCast Sender is rated higher. ActivCast Sender averages 3.0 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Mosyle School averages 1.8 from 92 ratings.
Do ActivCast Sender or Mosyle School have ads?
Neither ActivCast Sender nor Mosyle School shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ActivCast Sender or Mosyle School?
ActivCast Sender ships an update every 9 months, and Mosyle School every 2 months. Most recently, ActivCast Sender was updated on November 2, 2026 and Mosyle School on November 2, 2026.

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