Comparison

Popsicle Sticks vs Document Camera

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

Head to head
About

Popsicle Sticks

This app offers a digital solution for educators to randomly select students, form groups, and manage classroom activities. It includes features for grading, math games, and tournament creation, aiming to enhance engagement and streamline administrative tasks.

Highlights
  • Random student selection
  • Student grouping and swapping
  • Random list generation
  • Grade calculation
  • Mental math games
  • Tournament builder
Features
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Popsicle Sticks: Teacher Picks replaces your mug of popsicle sticks. Use it to randomly select and group students, to pick random numbers and simulate dice rolls, to score responses during discussions, to create classroom tournaments, and to energize your daily roll call! Its features include: RANDOM SELECT Select students randomly one student at a time. Use the "Random Bar" slider to precisely set the "randomness" of the next selection; from "uncalled students only" to "completely random" (and everywhere in-between). And although your students may not always love being selected, they will love listening to Siri say their name! (But rest assured, there is a "Mute" button for text-only selections.) RANDOM GROUPS Put students into random groups with just a couple taps. If the groups need a little tweaking, you can "swap" students with the Swap button. Easily view the "jigsaw" version of any random grouping, or create "round-robin pairings" for multi-day partner activities. Utilize the Share button to export a grouping (onto a white board, for example). RANDOM LIST Random List displays your class list in random order. Need a better system for picking the next student to take down the attendance, or to choose a birthday donut? Random List is the answer. Create, save, and export random lists for just about anything. GRADE CALCULATOR Utilize Grade Calculator to quickly determine final grades for test, quizzes, and other assignments. Calculate percentages and determine letter grades for a traditional grading system, or point averages and average performance levels for a rubric-based system. You can customize the output to include halves and/or thirds as well as extra credit points. MENTL Play Mentl with your students to improve their mental math skills. Utilizing a set of randomly generated digits, students build math equations equal to numbers on a Bingo board. Brain Bingo! DIGITAL DABBLE For each round of Digital Dabble, Popsicle Sticks generates a random set of digits (from a dice roll) and a target number. The challenge for your students is to use the digits to make an equation equal to the Target Number. Think digital! RAD ROLL CALL Invigorate your daily attendance with Rad Roll Call! Start each day by choosing one of over 200 Rad Roll Call questions. Students confirm they are present by responding to the question. Their answers (as well as the day's attendance) are saved and used for the Roll Call Recall game, where students earn points for remembering their classmates' responses. TOURNAMENT BUILDER With just a few taps, create a class tournament for almost any game (educational or otherwise). You can set it up for students to compete individually or in teams. You control the composition of the teams and the number of games. Choose from round-robin, single-elimination, or "quick-tournament." Record game results with a single tap. Popsicle Sticks will keep track of the standings, and, if you'd like, automatically slot the best players (or teams) into an end-of-tournament playoff! May the best student win! SCORED DISCUSSION Use Scored Discussion to track student responses during discussions. Just tap on a score as students give answers. Popsicle Sticks will display a running total for each student and automatically save the scores for future discussions. You can select students randomly (of course) or manually (by just tapping on a name). Save multiple discussions for various subjects, and easily export the scores to Excel or another application. With this free version of Popsicle Sticks: Teacher Picks, you can input one class, randomly select up to 500 students, create 10 random lists, 5 random groupings, 5 scored discussions, 5 tournaments, and 5 Rad Roll Calls. If you find it helpful, you can upgrade to the full version, Popsicle Sticks Unlimited. With Popsicle Sticks Unlimited you'll get unlimited access to all the features. Use Popsicle Sticks: Teacher Picks as a student picker, grouper, scorer, and gamer!

About

Document Camera

Turn your iPhone into a document camera for seamless workspace sharing. Ideal for remote learning and in-classroom presentations, it integrates with popular video conferencing tools and supports screen mirroring.

Highlights
  • Transform iPhone into a document camera
  • Screen sharing for video conferencing
  • Remote learning tool
  • Smart flashlight and auto-leveling
  • Zoom, pan, and freeze frame
  • AirPlay screen mirroring support
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Transform your iPhone into the best document camera on the market with Doc Cam! Doc Cam is a straightforward app for sharing your workspace with your students, just like a document camera or old school overhead projector. Doc Cam was designed with the needs of the remote learning classroom in mind. It’s compatible with Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other services through screen mirroring, all with easy step-by-step guides for setup. For teachers who have already transitioned back to the classroom, you can still use Doc Cam with modern classrooms outfitted with computers or projectors compatible with AirPlay Screen Mirroring. DOC CAM FEATURES 1. Works with Zoom, Google Meet, Screen Mirroring and more. 2. Perfect for remote learning. 3. Zoom and pan the camera. 4. Smart Flashlight - distributes the lighting evenly across the entire document camera image when the flashlight is enabled. 5. Auto Level - keeps the document camera image level even when your phone isn't. 6. Freeze video frame. 7. Transition back to the classroom with AirPlay support. 8. And more!

Screenshots

Popsicle Sticks4 screens
Document Camera4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Document Camera at none against Popsicle Sticks's 6. Popsicle Sticks's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 338). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Popsicle Sticks sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Document Camera asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Popsicle Sticks against 4.5 for Document Camera. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 338 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Popsicle Sticks's written reviews are positive against 62% of Document Camera's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Popsicle Sticks ships an update every 5 weeks, Document Camera monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Popsicle Sticks versus Document Camera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPopsicle SticksDocument Camera
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better4.5 (338 ratings)
Positive reviews60.3% of reviews61.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.3K — better338
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeil DalySwiftKick Mobile LLC

Customer experience

Popsicle Sticks

All ratings1,302 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral3.9%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive60.3%
Neutral13.7%
Negative26.0%

Document Camera

All ratings338 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral5.6%
Negative9.5%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative38.5%

User reviews

Popsicle Sticks

From 1.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for elementary music teachers
  • 🤩 Randomized grouping tool
  • 🚀 Useful and fun app
  • 🚀 Intuitive to set up and easy to learn
  • 🚀 Awesome tool creates awesome student engagement

Room to improve

  • 💰 Hidden cost
  • 💰 Expensive
  • 💰 Deceptive about costs
  • 🐛 Crashes when picking a student
  • 🐛 Import glitches

Document Camera

From 338 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for overhead projector use
  • 👍 Fun for playing teacher
  • 👍 Works well for screen mirroring
  • 👍 Intuitive and does what's needed
  • 👍 Works like an Elmo

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App doesn't open past splash screen
  • 🐛 Frozen on splash screen with no controls
  • 🐛 Needs access but nothing to select
  • 🐛 Stuck on Home Screen after installation
  • 🐛 Camera quality is fuzzy and grainy

Bugs and requests

Popsicle Sticks

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when picking a student
  • Import glitches
  • Deleting students/classes not intuitive
  • Asks for reviews too often

Requested features

7 requests
  • Ability to edit voice/pronunciation of names
  • Ability to mark students absent so they're not randomly selected
  • Ability to rotate iPad to landscape mode
  • Support for Slide Over and/or Side-by-Side apps
  • Ability to remove students on a tournament-by-tournament basis
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  • Ability to mix groups by gender
  • Ability to set custom group colors

Document Camera

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App does not open
  • App freezes on splash screen
  • App requires access but no options to select
  • App gets stuck on Home Screen
  • Poor camera quality (fuzzy/grainy)
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  • Limited rotation options

Requested features

2 requests
  • Support for portrait mode
  • Option to rotate document 90 degrees

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Popsicle Sticks

One-time5
  • Christmas Skin$0.99
  • Halloween Skin$0.99
  • Popsicle Sticks Unlimited$1.99
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  • Random Picks Unlimited$4.99
  • Popsicle Sticks Unlimited2 variants$9.99
None

Document Camera

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Popsicle Sticks free?
Popsicle Sticks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Document Camera free?
Document Camera is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Popsicle Sticks or Document Camera?
Popsicle Sticks is rated higher. Popsicle Sticks averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Document Camera averages 4.5 from 338 ratings.
Do Popsicle Sticks or Document Camera have ads?
Neither Popsicle Sticks nor Document Camera shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Popsicle Sticks or Document Camera?
Popsicle Sticks ships an update every 5 weeks, and Document Camera monthly. Most recently, Popsicle Sticks was updated on October 19, 2026 and Document Camera on October 18, 2026.

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