Comparison

Acadly vs Agora Connect

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

Head to head
About

Acadly

Enhance classroom engagement with real-time polls, quizzes, and attendance tracking. Facilitate live discussions and share resources seamlessly. This tool aims to make teaching and learning more efficient for educators and students.

Highlights
  • One tap attendance
  • Live in-class polls and quizzes
  • Record class participation
  • Math expression supported chat
  • Real-time analytics
  • File and link sharing
Features
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Now convert every college classroom into a smart classroom with Acadly. Welcome more efficient teaching-learning with - - One tap attendance - Record class participation - Live in-class polls, quizzes - Math expression supported chat What is Acadly? Acadly is a realtime tool for live in-class polling, quizzing, Q&A, attendance and analytics on student behaviour. Compared to clickers and other in-class apps Acadly is free, can save a class of 50 more than $1000 a semester, has a built-in class chat platform so that you don't have to use too many tools for your class. Given the unique course structure that is exclusive to Acadly, it can facilitate various pedagogical methods. An instructor can use Acadly to practice - * Flipped Classrooms * Active Learning Classrooms * Blended Learning * Collaborative Teaching * BYOD teaching Using Acadly, course instructors can - * Conduct Attendance with One Tap * Create and Conduct Live Quizzes * Create Live Polls * Track student attendance during lectures * Conduct live discussions * Share files, videos and links * Make Announcements * Post Lecture Summaries * Create and Grade Assignments Students in the meanwhile can raise queries, as themselves or anonymously. Discussions on Acadly are auto-created and contextual, which means the students don't have to navigate away from the context to make a point. Since Acadly is realtime, all the members of a course get instant in-app and push notifications. 1000+ professors have signed up in the last few months and are using Acadly actively in their classrooms. Acadly aims to be the last ed-tech tool to be ever used and we are only just getting started. Happy teaching and learning!

About

Agora Connect

Discover campus events and ways to get involved. Filter events by organization or activity, and add them to your personal calendar to ensure you don't miss out on campus happenings.

Highlights
  • Discover campus events
  • Filter by campus organizations
  • Find events by activity
  • Add events to calendar
  • Increase student engagement
Features
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Use the USC Upstate Events app to find out what events are happening and find out how you can get involved on campus!  • Sort by campus organizations hosting events • Find events tagged with your favorite activities • Add events to your calendar so you don’t miss out! Powered by Presence. Presence provides a web and mobile platform to universities and colleges to help increase student engagement, assess involvement, allocate funding efficiently, and improve retention through simplifying and digitizing processes, collecting, structuring, and analyzing involvement data, and provides tools to help reach and engage more students.

Screenshots

Acadly4 screens
Agora Connect3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Acadly at 41% against Agora Connect's 0%. Acadly also leads on rating (2.5 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (52 vs 3). Agora Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Acadly holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Acadly has 52 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Acadly's written reviews are positive against 0% of Agora Connect's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Acadly versus Agora Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAcadlyAgora Connect
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (52 ratings) — better2.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews41.2% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings52 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size258 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAcetone DesignsCheck I'm Here, LLC

Customer experience

Acadly

All ratings52 ratings
Positive38.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative59.6%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive41.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative58.8%

Agora Connect

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Acadly

No in-app purchases

None

Agora Connect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Acadly free?
Acadly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Agora Connect free?
Agora Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Acadly or Agora Connect?
Acadly is rated higher. Acadly averages 2.5 out of 5 from 52 ratings, while Agora Connect averages 2.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Acadly or Agora Connect have ads?
Neither Acadly nor Agora Connect shows ads.

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