Mosyle School vs Classroom Spy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Classroom Spy
This tool allows educators to monitor and manage student computer activity in real-time. It provides live screen views, remote control capabilities, and the ability to execute actions across multiple devices simultaneously. An agent must be installed on student computers to enable supervision.
- Live student screen monitoring
- Remote mouse and keyboard control
- Execute actions on multiple computers
- Customizable thumbnail view
- Complete control over student activity
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Use the Classroom Spy as a classroom management tool to monitor activity of all students. Here are major features: - You have complete control over what students are doing. - This application provides you with a live picture of the students computer screens. - You can take over the student computer by controlling its mouse and keyboard. - The student computer screens are represented in the table with a customizable number of rows as thumbnails. - Execute several actions on all student computers with on tap. Before you can start supervising your students you need to install an agent on their computer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Classroom Spy at 100% against Mosyle School's 13%. Classroom Spy also leads on rating (3.5 vs 1.8). Mosyle School's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (91 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Classroom Spy holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mosyle School has 91 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Mosyle School's written reviews are positive against 100% of Classroom Spy's.
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, Classroom Spy every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mosyle School | Classroom Spy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (91 ratings) | 3.5 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mosyle | Damjan Kriznik |
Customer experience
Mosyle School
Classroom Spy
Bugs and 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
Classroom Spy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mosyle School
No in-app purchases
Classroom Spy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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