Comparison

Mosyle School vs Smartcare for Centers

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

Smartcare for Centers

This app helps daycare and preschool centers manage daily operations, including family information, accounting, payments, and attendance tracking. It streamlines business processes for center directors.

Highlights
  • Family information management
  • Streamlined accounting and reporting
  • Automated tuition billing and payments
  • QR code/key tag/PIN attendance tracking
  • Lead and prospect management
  • Classroom ratio monitoring
Features
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Every day your daycare, child care, or preschool needs a way to manage family information. Smartcare for Center app can be used by center directors to efficiently operate their business through a set of child care management specific set of features: Easier Accounting Accounting data and reports make accounts receivables a breeze Your accounting general ledger is easily updated with a remittance posting. You can effortlessly search billing accounts; view transaction history, discounts, credits, balances, as well as view Agency/Subsidy records. You can quickly view, download, and send tax statements. Payment Solutions Tuition billing and automated payments ease your workload You can set up automatic weekly, monthly, or customized billing, and schedule automated payments from checking or savings accounts. Late payment fees can be applied to keep payers on track. In most states, centers can offer credit cards and pass the fees on to payers. Attendance sign in/out Attendance sign in/out for families and staff makes paperwork easier Families and staff easily sign in and out of our day care management software via QR Code, key tag, or PIN. Reduce paperwork, and make state tracking easier. Set classroom ratios to monitor staffing and child care. Manage Leads Leads and prospective families can be efficiently managed Smartcare allows you to move families from initial contact through enrollment. Keep prospect family information in one place so you can communicate and nurture them to enroll with your center.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mosyle School at 1.8 against Smartcare for Centers's 1.0. Mosyle School also leads on ratings volume (92 vs 1) and device support (3 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

Mosyle School holds the better App Store score, 1.8 against 1.0. 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, Smartcare for Centers every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mosyle School versus Smartcare for Centers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMosyle SchoolSmartcare for Centers
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (92 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews13.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS13.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB90 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMosyleSmartCare

Customer experience

Mosyle School

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

Smartcare for Centers

All ratings1 ratings
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

Smartcare for Centers

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

None

Smartcare for Centers

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Smartcare for Centers free?
Smartcare for Centers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mosyle School or Smartcare for Centers?
Mosyle School is rated higher. Mosyle School averages 1.8 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Smartcare for Centers averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Mosyle School or Smartcare for Centers have ads?
Neither Mosyle School nor Smartcare for Centers shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mosyle School or Smartcare for Centers?
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, and Smartcare for Centers every 6 weeks. Most recently, Mosyle School was updated on November 2, 2026 and Smartcare for Centers on November 3, 2026.

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