Comparison

Mosyle School vs BookRoom!

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

BookRoom!

Access decodable readers for students to support reading programs. Books can be added by scanning a barcode or entering a code, and are then available for rereading on a device. Multiple students can share a device by easily loading and removing books.

Highlights
  • Access decodable readers
  • Supports reading programs
  • Add books via barcode scan
  • Add books via code entry
  • Offline rereading access
  • Manage book library
Features
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Access Collaborative Classroom's decodable readers for students through the BookRoom! app. The readers available support Being a Reader Small-Group Reading Sets 1–6 and SIPPS. Books are loaded into the app by scanning the barcode on the back of the print book, or entering a code provided via our Learning Portal. Once a book is loaded, students have access to it on their device for rereading at a later time. Books can easily be loaded and removed in case multiple students need to share one device.

Screenshots

Mosyle School4 screens
BookRoom!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: BookRoom! at 3.0 against Mosyle School's 1.8. Mosyle School's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 2) and review sentiment (13% vs 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

BookRoom! 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 13% of Mosyle School's written reviews are positive against 0% of BookRoom!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Mosyle School versus BookRoom!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosyle SchoolBookRoom!
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (92 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews13.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings92 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMosyleCenter for the Collaborative Classroom

Customer experience

Mosyle School

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

BookRoom!

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

BookRoom!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

None

BookRoom!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BookRoom! free?
BookRoom! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mosyle School or BookRoom!?
BookRoom! is rated higher. Mosyle School averages 1.8 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while BookRoom! averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Mosyle School or BookRoom! have ads?
Neither Mosyle School nor BookRoom! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mosyle School or BookRoom!?
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, and BookRoom! every 4 months. Most recently, Mosyle School was updated on November 1, 2026 and BookRoom! on October 29, 2026.

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