Amco CS vs School iBox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Amco CS
Transform your iPad into an interactive smartboard for dynamic lesson presentations. Easily screencast books, annotate content, and manage student participation with tools like attendance tracking and a random student picker. This app enhances educational content delivery for subscribing schools.
- Screencast books and resources
- Interactive annotations on pages
- Playback audio/video clips
- Create custom resources
- Random student picker
- Attendance and participation tracking
- Offline functionality
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Bring Amco’s unique content to life using Classroom Solution. Easily screencast your books right to any screen or projector using the Amco Skybox and call up any of your saved resources, bookmarks, or complementary audio and video clips. All of this without needing a permanent internet connection. Create new and engaging ways of presenting our content to your class. With our interactive teacher tools you can transform your iPad into a smartboard tablet and screencast whatever you draw on your own screen or make annotations right on any content you are projecting. Classroom Solution (CS) also includes powerful tools to help you manage your class. Keep track of your student's attendance and participation, create class engagement using our random student picker, or use our timer tool to create fun new challenges for your class. This application is only available to schools subscribing to Amco Educational Services. Features • Screencast and navigate easily through your Amco books. • Make text or freehand annotations right on the page, visible to students and saved for repeated viewings. • Playback complementary audio and video clips included in our books. • Create and save your own custom PDF, image, audio, video, or URL resources to be used at any time. These can be attached to specific pages in any book to enhance lesson plans. • Use “Sparks” to enrich and enhance your lessons. These are Amco-created multimedia materials included with our books. • Customize your lessons using “Flares” by adding any of your resources to specific book pages. • Create engaging time-based challenges using the included Timer tool. • Use our grid, lined, or blank views to turn your iPad into a smartboard tablet and screencast anything you draw on your screen. • Student pickers give you an easy way to engage specific or random students into participation. • Keep track of your classes attendance and participation. • Stay up to speed by viewing all your Web Solution Activities right in CS. • CS works perfectly without a permanent internet connection to display any books and resources you download ahead of time.
School iBox
Facilitates efficient communication between students, parents, and teachers. Provides essential tools for staying connected with your educational institution, including real-time notifications, event calendars, and task management.
- Real-time notifications
- Event calendar
- Tasks and evaluations
- Photo galleries
- Statistics
- Immediate contact
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Comunicación con alumnos, padres, y profesores màs eficiente que nunca. Obtén todas las herramientas necesarias para mantenerte conectado con tu institución siempre. -Notificaciones en tiempo real -Calendario de eventos -Tareas y evaluaciones -Galerías de Fotos -Estadísticas - Contacto inmediato. ¡Y mucho más!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: School iBox at 67% against Amco CS's 32%. Amco CS's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Amco CS ships an update monthly, School iBox every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and June 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Amco CS | School iBox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 31.6% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 228 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | International Education Services | SCHOOL IBOX S.A.S. DE C.V. |
Customer experience
Amco CS
School iBox
In-app purchases
Amco CS
No in-app purchases
School iBox
No in-app purchases









