Comparison

Mosyle School vs Cognia Workspace

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

Cognia Workspace

A centralized platform for team collaboration, file storage, and evidence assembly. It streamlines document collection, supports workforce management, and provides a secure environment for team engagement and review activities.

Highlights
  • Centralized online file storage
  • Team collaboration tools
  • Evidence assembly
  • Streamlined document collection
  • Workforce management support
  • Secure environment for engagement
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Facilitate team collaboration with a centralized online location to store files and assemble evidence. Found on the Cognia™ improvement platform (eProve™),Workspace empowers Engagement Review teams to review activities, streamline document collection, support workforce management, and provides a secure environment for team engagement and deliberation.

Screenshots

Mosyle School4 screens
Cognia Workspace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cognia Workspace at 5.0 against Mosyle School's 1.8. Cognia Workspace also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.4). Mosyle School's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

Cognia Workspace holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mosyle School has 92 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, Cognia Workspace every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mosyle School versus Cognia Workspace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosyle SchoolCognia Workspace
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (92 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.411.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMosyleAdvance Education, Inc.

Customer experience

Mosyle School

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

Cognia Workspace

All ratings1 ratings
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

Cognia Workspace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

None

Cognia Workspace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cognia Workspace free?
Cognia Workspace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mosyle School or Cognia Workspace?
Cognia Workspace is rated higher. Mosyle School averages 1.8 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Cognia Workspace averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mosyle School or Cognia Workspace have ads?
Neither Mosyle School nor Cognia Workspace shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mosyle School or Cognia Workspace?
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, and Cognia Workspace every 4 months. Most recently, Mosyle School was updated on November 1, 2026 and Cognia Workspace on October 29, 2026.

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