Groups vs Attendy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Attendy
This app simplifies attendance tracking for individuals and groups. It allows for quick recording of presence, absence, or lateness, with options to export data and receive reminders. Manage multiple groups and visualize statistics easily.
- Online attendance tracking
- Data export to PDF and Excel
- Real-time multi-user sharing
- Statistics visualization and graphical analysis
- Group management
- Event calendar mode
- Customizable notifications
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Designed for individuals seeking efficient attendance tracking. Attendy is an online attendance tracker that provides attendance statistics and export attendance data to PDF, Excel or Google Drive. Receive notifications to ensure you never forget to take attendance. Attendy evolves into Presengo Your attendance app is evolving into Presengo Discover a completely redesigned experience, simpler and smoother. Attendy become Presengo Tracking attendance has never been easier. No more paper needed with Attendy – an attendance tracker app for quick and efficient attendance management. Attendy features to quickly manage attendance: - Enable online sharing for multi users sharing and multi-device support with real-time attendance tracking - Manage and visualize statistics by event or member - Export data (pdf, excel) and share statistics via email or directly on Google Drive - Manage groups of people effortlessly - Easily add members to your groups - Quickly manage and record attendance Absent, present or late, sick? Quick, easy and intuitive this application allows you to track attendance online on a day to day basis (school tracker app, teacher kit, student tracker, staff tracker, teacher tracker, employee tracker, app tracker for quickly attendance..) Very fast and easy to use, you can manage fast live attendance and track a list of presence / absence. Count the participation for example with students absences. It is an easy way for attendants registering. Attendy - Attendance register is an attendance manager tool which supports a calendar mode to add events, it allows you to easily register presence and absence attendance. Download and export data in an excel sheet to track attendances and share it easily for more visibility (excel export, pdf export). Remind app with notification adding so that you are notified to not forget to add an attendance (reminder app) Online attendance, share attendance through multi devices support Easy follow up and easy attendance tracking, Attendy simply use statistics visualisations and graphical analysis with dashboard smartly built (charts attendance tracking). Attendance register app can be used for attendance work register, attendance for students, employee attendance tracker, register class attendance to follow students assiduity, follow and track employee's attendance, manage attendance for groups of people regarding all kind of activities as sport, culture or any hobbies and lots of more concrete cases. School attendance and student tracker attendance: Attendance manager is a teacher app, teacher kit, teacher attendance help, apps for teacher, custom school app or even school parent app. Maintain a gradebook, behavior management, progress report and taking attendance. As a school app, class dojo, lessons can be used as events to register attendance (lesson plan with attendance tracking). Grades can be added through the custom fields app (it is an easy grader - asistencias alumnos, anwesenheitsliste, anwesenheitslisten, anwesenheit). Attendance manager app can be used as a remind school app thanks to the use of custom notifications. Taking attendance has never been so easy with attendance manager, this app is used as an attendance tracker for teachers and students attendance (attending, participation). Business attendance tracker app: Attendance manager can be used to track employee absenteeism, absence tracker staff link, employee tracker (time clock), tardy tracker, attendance app can also be considered as conference tracker for lateness tracker (control de atrasos - presença confirmada). It is easy to use for manager tracking time (employee time card, employee time punch clock, clock puncher). A manager, chef, leader can see attendants register through the available statistics in the app. Attendance sheet is available after excel export or pdf export or online export. Privacy Policy https://matthieuavrgs.github.io/attendancyapp.github.io/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Groups at 90% against Attendy's 35%. Groups also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (154 vs 5). Attendy's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Groups sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Attendy sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Groups holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Groups has 154 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Groups's written reviews are positive against 35% of Attendy's.
Groups ships an update every 3 months, Attendy every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Groups | Attendy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (154 ratings) — better | 2.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 35.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 154 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Taylor | Matthieu Avargues |
Customer experience
Groups
Attendy
In-app purchases
Groups
- Groups Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Groups Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Color Themes$0.99
- Groups Pro$39.99
Attendy
- Attendancy app online premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Online premium 5 users7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Online premium 10 users7 Days trial$11.991 Month
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- Online premium 25 users7 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Online premium 50 users7 Days trial$22.991 Month
- Online premium +50 users7 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Attendance app premium$2.99
- Attendance app premium$9.99









