Comparison

Mosyle School vs Classroom Spy

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

Head to head
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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Live student screen monitoring
  • Remote mouse and keyboard control
  • Execute actions on multiple computers
  • Customizable thumbnail view
  • Complete control over student activity
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Mosyle School4 screens
Classroom Spy4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mosyle School versus Classroom Spy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosyle SchoolClassroom Spy
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (91 ratings)3.5 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings91 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 13 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMosyleDamjan Kriznik

Customer experience

Mosyle School

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

Classroom Spy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

None

Classroom Spy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Classroom Spy free?
Classroom Spy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mosyle School or Classroom Spy?
Classroom Spy is rated higher. Mosyle School averages 1.8 out of 5 from 91 ratings, while Classroom Spy averages 3.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Mosyle School or Classroom Spy have ads?
Neither Mosyle School nor Classroom Spy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mosyle School or Classroom Spy?
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, and Classroom Spy every 13 months. Most recently, Mosyle School was updated on October 13, 2026 and Classroom Spy on October 4, 2026.

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