Comparison

Groups vs Yowatari

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

Yowatari

Features
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Learn Kapanese from absolute zero, 30 minutes per day is all it takes! Yowatari teaches hiragana, katakana, and core vocabulary through 30 structured lessons, then gets you speaking: listen to native-quality audio, repeat it back, and practice pronunciation with on-device speech scoring. Lessons: 30 lessons of kana, vocabulary, dialogues, and pattern practice Practice: speak and get scored; every mora is checked Echo: plain listen-and-repeat drills to build a reflex, no pressure Review: spaced repetition keeps what you have learned alive Progress: see how far you have come

Screenshots

Groups4 screens
Yowatari4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Yowatari at every 8 days against Groups's every 3 months. Groups's advantage is ratings volume (154 vs 1). 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 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Yowatari sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Yowatari 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Groups ships an update every 3 months, Yowatari every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Groups versus Yowatari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupsYowatari
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (154 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings154 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam TaylorKevin Porter

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Groups

Subscriptions2
  • Groups Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Groups Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Groups Pro$39.99
1 purchases

Yowatari

One-time1
  • Full Course$4.99

Questions

Is Groups free?
Groups is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yowatari free?
Yowatari is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Groups or Yowatari?
Yowatari is rated higher. Groups averages 4.8 out of 5 from 154 ratings, while Yowatari averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Groups or Yowatari have ads?
Neither Groups nor Yowatari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Groups or Yowatari?
Groups ships an update every 3 months, and Yowatari every 8 days. Most recently, Groups was updated on November 2, 2026 and Yowatari on November 6, 2026.

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