Comparison

Connect Space vs Kihon Staff

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Connect Space

Facilitate professional connections at events. Build a profile, discover attendees with shared interests, and communicate directly. Keep track of important contacts with notes.

Highlights
  • Connect before, during, and after events
  • Build a profile with matching interests
  • Communicate with connections
  • Create notes for contacts
  • Login with Connect Space Account
Features
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Connect Space is an easy-to-use networking application designed for event attendees. It allows you to connect with each other and communicate via phone and/or email. • Connect before, during, and after the event • Build a profile to find attendees with matching interests • Communicate with connections • Create notes to remember key details about potential connections • Login with your Connect Space Account!

About

Kihon Staff

Features
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The day, in your pocket. Built for the ninety seconds between classes, when you are standing on the mat and the office is on the other side of the building. Kihon Staff is the companion app for schools that run on Kihon. Your school gives you an account. There is no signup here, because a staff account is something a school issues, not something a person creates. THE TABS 1 - Today. Your duty sheet, generated from your school's own list. Tick items as you do them and your name goes on the record. Beside it, who is slipping and worth a call today. 2 - Classes. What is running today, who is on the mat, and what this week's focus is. The thing you check on the way through the door. Swipe a name to file an incident report, or search for anyone when something happens in the lobby. 3 - Schedule. The standing week plus what is coming: gradings, camps, events, and the day's weather when something is being held outside. 4 - Leads. Your funnel at a glance. Log a call the moment you make it, add an inquiry in ten seconds while the parent is still standing there, and move somebody along. 5 - Messages. Answer families from your phone, as yourself or on behalf of your school. 6 - Your team. Who works here, how to reach them, and your own profile. Edit how families see your name, set how you take calls, and manage this device's notifications. Turn off the tabs you do not use on this device. Hiding a tab also stops its notifications reaching this phone, so a switch means what it says. NOTIFICATIONS WORTH THE BUZZ A duty assigned to you reaches your lock screen, titled with your school's name, whether or not you are signed in on the web. So does a duty assigned to a role you wear, which tells everyone wearing it rather than pretending the job is exclusively yours. So does a new inquiry, the moment somebody fills in your signup form. What never buzzes: anything nobody in particular needs to do. A shared duty that anyone can pick up is a list, not an alert, and a notification lane that cries wolf gets muted for good. KIOSK MODE ON IPAD Turn a spare iPad into your front desk check-in station. Tap "Use this iPad as a kiosk" on the sign-in screen, and a staff member with access to Devices pairs it on the web. Members check in with their PIN or by finding their name. A check-in made while the Wi-Fi is down is kept on the iPad and sent when the connection returns. It stays awake, clears itself between members, and reopens straight into check-in after a restart. Revoke it in Devices and it goes back to the sign-in screen, so no staff login ever sits on a lobby iPad. IPHONE AND IPAD On an iPad it draws a sidebar rather than a tab bar, and you can switch between the two. Light and dark both, following your device. WHAT IT COLLECTS Your name, your role at the school, and your sign-in, so the app can show who ticked what and keep you to your own school's data. Your school's records: the roster, the schedule, the duty book, attendance, and inquiries. On a kiosk iPad, the check-ins members make there. A notification token if you turn notifications on. Your display preferences never leave the device. No advertising. No analytics SDK. No third-party code watching you. Nothing sold or shared for marketing. WHAT IT COSTS Nothing extra. No per-seat charge and no paid tier. Every Kihon feature is on every plan, and this app is included. BUILT BY SOMEBODY WHO HAS TAUGHT THE CLASS Kihon is built by a martial arts instructor who is also the developer answering the support email. That is why the duty sheet knows a Sunday the school was closed is not a zero, why a hat duty tells everyone wearing it, and why the app will not ring a parent from your personal number unless you tell it to. Requires iOS 17 or later and a Kihon account from your school.

Screenshots

Connect Space4 screens
Kihon Staff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kihon Staff at every 3 days against Connect Space's every 2 months. Connect Space's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Connect Space ships an update every 2 months, Kihon Staff every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Connect Space versus Kihon Staff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConnect SpaceKihon Staff
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperConnect Space Inc.Kihon HQ LLC

In-app purchases

None

Connect Space

No in-app purchases

None

Kihon Staff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Connect Space free?
Connect Space is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kihon Staff free?
Kihon Staff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Connect Space or Kihon Staff have ads?
Neither Connect Space nor Kihon Staff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Connect Space or Kihon Staff?
Connect Space ships an update every 2 months, and Kihon Staff every 3 days. Most recently, Connect Space was updated on October 24, 2026 and Kihon Staff on October 31, 2026.

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