Mosyle School vs Smart Digital ID
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Smart Digital ID
Manage your school ID and important information securely. Access your class schedule, grades, and events. Create digital passes for school facilities like the library and gym.
- Digital school ID management
- Access class schedules
- View grades and events
- Create digital facility passes
- Secure information storage
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Digital ID is the convenient and secure way to manage your school ID and passes. With Digital ID, you can: Easily access your school ID and other important information. Your school ID is always at your fingertips, so you can quickly access it whenever you need it. You can also view other important information, such as your class schedule, grades, and upcoming events. Create and manage digital passes for your school library, gym, and other facilities. Digital passes make it easy to use your school facilities without having to carry around physical cards or key fobs.
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Verdict
Mosyle School and Smart Digital ID both sit at 1.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Smart Digital ID's written reviews are positive against 13% of Mosyle School's. Mosyle School's advantage is ratings volume (91 vs 24). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Digital ID holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 91 and 24 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Mosyle School's written reviews are positive against 100% of Smart Digital ID's.
Mosyle School ships an update every 2 months, Smart Digital ID every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mosyle School | Smart Digital ID |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (91 ratings) | 2.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 — better | 14.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mosyle | Covantia, Inc. |
Customer experience
Mosyle School
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In-app purchases
Mosyle School
No in-app purchases
Smart Digital ID
No in-app purchases
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