Podium vs Tracking Books
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Podium
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Take Note, Organize Idea, Make a Presentation. Make your own presentation with Podium. Anyone can easily make a slideshow. Make an interactive slideshow and enjoy making and playing the slideshow you made! You can use it in school, work, and at home to make all types of slideshow such as PR booklet, PDF documents, and etc. Making a multimedia slideshow You can add pictures, text, voice recordings, songs, and videos on the page. You can use the camera to take pictures or videos and add them right on to the page. You can draw image and edit image using Pen Tool. Podium provides interactive functions such as item connection and auto play to make your presentation more fun. Easy and intuitive interface Children of all ages can easily use this interface. Use the Item Bar to add items to the page by drag & drop. The size of the items can be changed by pinch-zooming with two fingers, and the items can be moved to any location by dragging. All text are shown on the page in real time with the In-Page text editor that is provided. Use the Undo function to return to the previous work. Record your slideshow You can record slideshow while it is playing. Also you can record your voice simultaneously. The recorded slideshow can export as video and it will download to Photo Library. You can record yourself by using front facing camera while slideshow. Share your slideshow You can share your slideshow with others using Book World. Join the Book World and upload your slideshow to Book World, and follow your favorite author. You can share you made with Podium on Dropbox or Google Drive, etc, or you may send the books to iTunes or via E-mail. You can upload your slideshow video to YouTube, Vimeo, etc. Save your presentation as a PDF document or you can use AirPrint or use Export to print the slideshow. You can export your slideshow to Book Writer which is support iBooks. In Class Brother of Podium, Book Writer is being used in many countries by thousands of people for educational use. Podium helps students to make a slideshow by organizing their thoughts. With an intuitive interface, anyone can easily express and organize their thoughts. You can easily share your slideshow using Book World. 50% sale for educational institutions. Use App Store Volume Purchase Program to purchase Podium. For more details - http://www.apple.com/itunes/education/ Main Functions Use drag & drop to easily add items. You can use the photos from Photo Library to add to the slideshow, or you can add pictures taken directly from camera. Pictures can be moved, the size can be adjusted, and you can rotate or crop the pictures by touching. Text box item can be added to the page to input text. Podium supports fonts and styles of various types. You can draw image and edit image using Pen Tool. You can add videos from your album or you can directly record videos with your camera to add them. Use recorder to record your voice and add to the slideshow, or add music from Music Library to your slideshow. Bring any music from Music Library to add as your background music. Use the auto play function to automatically play the media at the time you want. Item connection function is provided to connect your pictures or text to sound items. The Undo function allows you to return to your previous work. Use the Page Editor to add or delete pages or change the order of the page by using drag & drop. The completed slideshow can be play in βPresentation Modeβ. Slideshows that have been created can be shared via Book World, iTunes, E-mail, Dropbox, or Google Drive, etc. Online support is included. Please visit our homepage - http://goodeffect.com
Tracking Books
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Built for a kindergarten teacher by her computer science teacher husband, this application allows you to : - Create tracking books for each of your pupils, on iPhone or iPad, - Keep the activity repository provided (2021 version) or adapt it completely, - Take photos of the pupils' achievements, - Visually monitor activities done or not yet done, overall or by group, level, pupil, - Note (and dictate as often as possible) your comments on the pupils' achievements, the instructions for each activity, the overall assessments appearing at the end of the booklet, - Create your pupils and groups either manually or by importing an administrative file (in CSV format), - Perform data backups and restorations easily (photos and all data entered) so that a loss/theft of a mobile or tablet is not a tragedy... - Adapt the monitoring notebooks produced : These include a summary then the presentation of the activities carried out by the child. One or more cover pages of your composition can be added in front (demo on the website), - Pupil files can be transmitted from one teacher to another via the wifi connection, either at each class change or regularly. This last feature will be of particular interest to teachers sharing the class: The activities and work carried out by one can be transferred to the laptop/tablet of the other teacher. A common booklet can therefore be created (but two separate tracking books are also possible in the absence of synchronization), - You (teacher) can keep track of your pupils' tracking books by sending them to your email box, - Parents/legal guardians receive their child's tracking books by email, with a hidden copy so as not to disclose the addresses, - You can adapt this email entirely, - You have a summary grid which presents for each pupil and each skill the best evaluation that you have assigned (useful for example before a meeting with the parents) - Finally, a user guide is available on http://fr.lagache.free.fr/carnet/agence_accueil.php, as well as a complementary application to allow backups on a PC (recommended in the event of loss of the mobile/tablet ...).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tracking Books at Free against Podium's $2.99. Podium's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Tracking Books is free to download; Podium costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Podium ships an update every 3 weeks, Tracking Books monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Podium | Tracking Books |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free β better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks β better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 β better | 15.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Good Effect | Francois LAGACHE |
In-app purchases
Podium
No in-app purchases
Tracking Books
No in-app purchases
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