Groups vs myClassroom
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
myClassroom
This app provides essential classroom management tools for educators, allowing remote control via Apple Watch or Bluetooth clicker. It offers extensive customization for various functions like bells, notes, student grouping, and behavior tracking.
- Remote control with Apple Watch/Bluetooth clicker
- Customizable bell and alert sounds
- Instant note-taking with automatic logging
- Random student selection and group generation
- Behavior tracking and time-lost monitoring
- Noise meter and music playback
- Automated daily routines and smart seating charts
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MyClassroom was has essential teacher tools that are designed to work fast. Even better, they works with an Apple Watch or Bluetooth clicker. This means you can place your iPhone or iPad anywhere in the room and still have access to your tools. MyClassroom also offers extensive customization. If you don’t like how a tool works, there’s a good chance you can change it. Below is a list of tools and features that are just one press away! Tools: Bell Alert your class with a variety of sounds to choose from. Notes Instantly save notes during hectic moments, with automatic logging of time, date, and subject. You can add text later. Time Quickly add time increments with each press. It's perfect when precise timing isn't necessary. Coin & Dice Randomly generate numbers and outcomes. Sticks Randomly call on students, with an option to prevent repeats. Groups Create student groups, with settings to avoid unwanted pairings. Tallies Keep track of positive and negative classroom behaviors. Time Lost Track time wasted by students using a stopwatch and a warning sound. Hearts Each press removes a heart. Hearts can automatically replenish after a preset amount of time. Noise Meter Tuned to student voice frequencies, with a buffer to prevent false alarms. Music Box Play over 150 instrumental tracks covering various genres and moods. Brain Break Meditate or get active with quick, interactive breaks. Features Routines Set up your daily schedule and let the app automatically announce subjects and reminders. You won’t need to pull out your phone to turn off an alarm anymore! Smart Seating Seating charts with the ability to add rules, and use actual desk distances to generate seating charts. This app is governed by Apple’s standard End User License Agreement (EULA), available here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Groups at 90% against myClassroom's 38%. Groups also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5). myClassroom's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Groups sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and myClassroom sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Groups holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 146 and 355 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Groups's written reviews are positive against 38% of myClassroom's.
Groups ships an update every 3 months, myClassroom weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Groups | myClassroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (146 ratings) — better | 4.5 (355 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 146 | 355 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 173 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Taylor | Tanner Stoltz |
Customer experience
Groups
myClassroom
Bugs and requests
Groups
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
myClassroom
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cannot log in after subscription
- Password reset email not received
- Customer service link not working
- App crashing with music
- Bluetooth remote connectivity issues
Requested features
3 requests- Make more features free
- Bring back brain breaks
- Improve the voice quality
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
myClassroom
- Full Access3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Full Access3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Full Access$39.99








