Groups vs enCourage UW
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
enCourage UW
This application facilitates the creation of supportive and genuine learning environments. It is designed to foster authentic communities for educational purposes in various settings.
- Create supportive learning communities
- Foster authentic educational environments
- Applicable in any learning situation
- Designed for community building
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This app is designed to help you create supportive, authentic learning communities in any situation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: enCourage UW at none against Groups's 3. enCourage UW also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.4). Groups's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 28 months) and ratings volume (154 vs 3). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Groups sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. enCourage UW asks for nothing beyond the download.
enCourage UW holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Groups has 154 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Groups ships an update every 3 months, enCourage UW every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Groups | enCourage UW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (154 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 154 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Taylor | University of Wisconsin-Madison Shared Apps |
Customer experience
Groups
enCourage UW
In-app purchases
Groups
- Groups Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Groups Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Groups Pro$39.99
enCourage UW
No in-app purchases









