Comparison

Groups vs Teacher Aide (cloud)

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

Head to head
About

Groups

This app helps educators create balanced and effective student teams using an advanced algorithm. It offers features like gender balancing, exclusion of incompatible students, and random student selection to promote participation. Easily import student data and export group compositions for classroom use.

Highlights
  • Advanced team-building algorithm
  • Gender balancing for groups
  • Exclude incompatible student pairs
  • Random student picker
  • Export and print group compositions
  • Bulk import students
  • Cross-device sync via iCloud
Features
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Effortlessly organize your students into effective teams with Groups, promoting meaningful collaboration and building teamwork skills in the classroom. ADVANCED TEAM BUILDING Have certain students who don’t work well together? Simply list these pairs in the app and Groups will handle the rest, with its advanced team-building algorithm. BALANCE GENDERS Ensure each group has an even distribution of genders with the ”Balance Genders” option, promoting diversity and encouraging collaboration. EDIT GROUPS Need to fine tune the generated groups? Easily rearrange the result to achieve a perfect team composition. RANDOM STUDENT PICKER Encourage equal participation in the classroom with Groups’ random student picker. This makes sure everyone gets a chance to provide input, ensuring all voices are heard. EXPORT AND PRINT Easily create printable handouts, posters, or a PDF to share using five beautiful themes. BULK IMPORT Add students from Microsoft Excel workbooks, CSV files, or plain text lists. UNLIMITED CLASSES Enter all your students once, and then create as many groups as you need. You can even add an icon and color to each class to easily tell them apart. CROSS DEVICE SYNC Add your classes once, and use them across all your Apple devices with iCloud sync. ——————————————— Groups has helped tens of thousands of teachers sort their students into groups, fostering more positive learning environments for students worldwide. Privacy Policy: https://wttech.com.au/docs/groups/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://wttech.com.au/docs/groups/eula

About

Teacher Aide (cloud)

This app helps educators manage student attendance, grades, and seating charts across multiple semesters. It offers cloud synchronization for seamless device switching and provides tools to identify at-risk students and communicate with parents. Export data easily for integration with other systems.

Highlights
  • Cloud database for multi-device sync
  • Attendance and grade tracking
  • Seating chart creation
  • Identify at-risk students
  • Bulk email notifications
  • Google Classroom roster sync
  • CSV grade export
Features
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Designed by a teacher, for teachers! • Cloud database allows easy switching between iPhone, iPad and MacBook • Attendance, Grades, Seating Chart for up to 6 semesters with 10 classes each. • Variety of PDF reports • Identify students at-risk due to attendance or grades • Easily notify students, parents and advisors with bulk email. • Easily sync student roster from Google Classroom • Export grades in CSV format to use with other grading systems Teacher Aide (cloud) is designed for use by individual teachers or co teachers of the same class. The app stores data in the cloud, so the the teacher can easily switch between devices, such as an iPhone, iPad or MacBook. Try out the app for free for 1 month with one class and see if you find it useful. An easy to use attendance and grading interface makes record keeping in the digital classroom a simple process. Additional features teachers will find useful are the seating chart, progress report and identification of student at risk due to attendance or academic performance. An auto-renewable monthly subscription allows access for up to 10 or 20 classes in each semester, and multiple semesters are supported. Please email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com with any questions or suggestions. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms Autorenewable Subscription Details To access features after the 1 month free access, the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable monthly or annual subscription. This means the subscription automatically renews 24 hours before the end of the subscription date. Auto renewable subscriptions can be managed from the user iTunes account, and a link is provided in the subscription screen while in the app. All future updates are included with the auto renewable monthly subscription. The subscription may be cancelled for any future months, and the user will still have access to the data, only the additional features will be disabled. Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeacherAidePro

Screenshots

Groups4 screens
Teacher Aide (cloud)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Teacher Aide (cloud) at weekly against Groups's every 3 months. Groups's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 79%) and ratings volume (146 vs 45). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Groups sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Teacher Aide (cloud) sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Groups against 4.8 for Teacher Aide (cloud). Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 146 and 45 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Groups's written reviews are positive against 79% of Teacher Aide (cloud)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Groups ships an update every 3 months, Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Groups versus Teacher Aide (cloud): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupsTeacher Aide (cloud)
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (146 ratings) — better4.8 (45 ratings)
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings146 — better45
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam TaylorGlen Botha

Customer experience

Groups

All ratings146 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Teacher Aide (cloud)

All ratings45 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.4%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Groups

Subscriptions2
  • Groups Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Groups Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Color Themes$0.99
  • Groups Pro$39.99
6 purchases

Teacher Aide (cloud)

Subscriptions6
  • Standard (10 classes)$3.991 Month
  • Standard (20 classes)$6.991 Month
  • Premium (10 classes)$6.991 Month
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  • Premium (20 classes)$9.991 Month
  • Premium (10 classes)$69.991 Year
  • Premium (20 classes)$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Groups free?
Groups is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Teacher Aide (cloud) free?
Teacher Aide (cloud) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Groups or Teacher Aide (cloud)?
Groups is rated higher. Groups averages 4.9 out of 5 from 146 ratings, while Teacher Aide (cloud) averages 4.8 from 45 ratings.
Do Groups or Teacher Aide (cloud) have ads?
Neither Groups nor Teacher Aide (cloud) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Groups or Teacher Aide (cloud)?
Groups ships an update every 3 months, and Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. Most recently, Groups was updated on October 12, 2026 and Teacher Aide (cloud) on October 8, 2026.

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