Comparison

Mosyle School vs Imagine Learning Student

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

Imagine Learning Student

This app provides interactive language and literacy instruction for students from Pre-K to 6th grade. It offers a personalized learning path with thousands of engaging activities to improve reading, vocabulary, and spelling skills. It requires a site code from a school or district to function.

Highlights
  • Interactive language and literacy instruction
  • Personalized learning paths
  • Thousands of engaging activities
  • Focus on letters, phonological awareness, reading, and vocabulary
  • Develops reading comprehension and spelling skills
  • Learn to read over 250 books and articles
Features
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Imagine Language & Literacy® harnesses the power of technology to teach language and literacy to students around the world through engaging, interactive instruction. This mobile app is a companion to Imagine Learning's cloud-based services which allows students and teachers to have flexible access to the extensive curriculum activities. Imagine Language & Literacy lessons and activities are designed for Pre-K through 6th grade students. A personalized learning path differentiates instruction and boosts student achievement for English language learners, struggling readers, early childhood students, and students with disabilities. Imagine Language & Literacy includes thousands of fun, interactive, research-based activities, so students have fun while learning! Build a crazy monster while learning the alphabet. Play basketball while learning to spell. Free aliens by identifying the correct letter. Learn to read more than 250 books and articles. Children encounter activities in four main areas: letters, phonological awareness, reading, and vocabulary. Instruction is offered in a variety of literacy skills including letter recognition, reading comprehension, idiom comprehension, vocabulary development, phonic rules, spelling, rhyming, and phoneme segmentation. Please note this app will not work without being assigned a site code specific to your school or district. Please visit http://support.imaginelearning.com for information about System Requirements and Release Notes.

Screenshots

Mosyle School4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Imagine Learning Student at 3.2 against Mosyle School's 1.8. Imagine Learning Student also leads on review sentiment (36% vs 13%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Mosyle School's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). 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

Imagine Learning Student holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Imagine Learning Student has 1K ratings behind it against 92, 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 36% of Imagine Learning Student's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, Imagine Learning Student fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mosyle School versus Imagine Learning Student: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosyle SchoolImagine Learning Student
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (92 ratings)3.2 (1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.0% of reviews36.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings921K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB99 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMosyleImagine Learning, Inc.

Customer experience

Mosyle School

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

Imagine Learning Student

All ratings1,019 ratings
Positive53.5%
Neutral5.2%
Negative41.3%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral7.5%
Negative56.1%

User reviews

Mosyle School

From 92 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⭐ Works for schools
  • 👍 Easy to set up (for IT)
  • 💰 Cost-effective for schools

Room to improve

  • 👎 Restricts app access
  • 👎 Rearranges apps alphabetically
  • 👎 Cannot uninstall
  • 👎 Privacy concerns (screen recording)
  • 👎 Device management issues

Imagine Learning Student

From 1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Fun and engaging
  • 🎓 Educational and helpful for learning
  • 👍 Good for distance/online learning
  • 🎨 Customizable avatar

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
  • 🕰️ Time-consuming and repetitive
  • 🤔 Outdated and babyish for older students
  • 🤯 Frustrating and not helpful for learning
  • 🔇 Annoying audio/voice

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

Imagine Learning Student

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and log-outs
  • Incorrect scoring/grading in activities
  • Compatibility issues on certain devices
  • Syncing/progress issues when switching devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More engaging and challenging content for older students
  • Improved stability and fewer bugs
  • Faster pacing and less repetition
  • Better customization options

In-app purchases

None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

None

Imagine Learning Student

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Imagine Learning Student free?
Imagine Learning Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mosyle School or Imagine Learning Student?
Imagine Learning Student is rated higher. Mosyle School averages 1.8 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Imagine Learning Student averages 3.2 from 1K ratings.
Do Mosyle School or Imagine Learning Student have ads?
Neither Mosyle School nor Imagine Learning Student shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mosyle School or Imagine Learning Student?
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, and Imagine Learning Student fortnightly. Most recently, Mosyle School was updated on November 2, 2026 and Imagine Learning Student on November 3, 2026.

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