Swivl Capture+ vs DERS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swivl Capture+
This app enables multi-camera recording in educational settings, allowing simultaneous capture of individual students and teachers. Videos are uploaded to a cloud account for easy sharing and collaboration.
- Multi-camera technology
- Simultaneous recording
- Student and teacher video capture
- Cloud upload
- Sharing and collaboration
- Team account functionality
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Swivl Capture+ brings a breakthrough Multi-Camera technology to classrooms that let you see and hear each individual student with ease. Become a Team account user to connect up to 5 mobile devices together to record simultaneously. The Swivl Capture+ app records video of students. The Swivl Capture app records video of the teacher. Each device records video at the same time. The videos upload to your Reflectivity account for sharing and collaboration. *This app is not intended to be used with Swivl Robot
DERS
This tool assesses the quality of learning environments for children aged 2.5 to 12. It measures environmental design and implementation against desired developmental outcomes, focusing on executive functions, literacy, and social-emotional growth.
- Measures learning environment quality
- Focuses on executive functions
- Assesses literacy development
- Evaluates social-emotional growth
- Research-based environmental attributes
- Classroom observation tool
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The DERS iOS app has been deprecated. New web based DERS is now available. http://www.ders-app.org for more info. The Developmental Environmental Rating Scale (DERS) measures the quality of learning environments offered in classrooms serving children between the ages of 2.5 and 12. It aligns environmental design and implementation with desired outcomes related to executive functions, literacy, and social-emotional development. The DERS consists of 60 research-based environmental attributes or observable behaviors (child and adult) aligned with five broad aspects of human development: initiation and concentration, inhibitory control, working memory, linguistic and cultural fluency, and social fluency and emotional flexibility. The assessment is administered in a 60-minute classroom observation, during which the assessor records the presence, magnitude, and/or frequency for each item. Schools can use the DERS internally to identify priorities for continuous improvement or externally as an assessment of environmental quality. The DERS was developed by researchers at the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DERS at 5.0 against Swivl Capture+'s 4.7. Swivl Capture+'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, 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.
DERS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively.
Swivl Capture+ ships an update every 3 months, DERS every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swivl Capture+ | DERS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Swivl, Inc | National Centre for Montessori in the Public Sector, Inc. |
Customer experience
Swivl Capture+
DERS
In-app purchases
Swivl Capture+
No in-app purchases
DERS
No in-app purchases
