Comparison

Amco CS vs LiveKid

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Screencast books and resources
  • Interactive annotations on pages
  • Playback audio/video clips
  • Create custom resources
  • Random student picker
  • Attendance and participation tracking
  • Offline functionality
Features
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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.

About

LiveKid

This app streamlines communication between parents and childcare institutions. It simplifies administrative tasks for directors, facilitates daily updates for teachers, and keeps parents informed about their child's activities, meals, and attendance.

Highlights
  • Parent-institution communication
  • Attendance tracking
  • Meal planning
  • Financial settlements
  • Digital documentation
  • Daily updates and photos
Features
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The most effective application for pre-schools and nurseries. Quick contact between a parent and an institution, settlements, documentation - all in one place! For the Director The end of paper documentation! LiveKid means automatic settlements, catering orders, electronic and specialist diaries. The application will improve the management of not only the school's finances, but also the staff and communication with parents. For the Teacher LiveKid is a thread of communication that connects the teacher with the parent. The educator can provide current information via chat or quick notifications. Also always has information about children and attendance at hand! For the parent With LiveKid you stay close to your child throughout the day. With one click, you can report a future absence, plan meals or write a message to the facility. All announcements, photos, menus and notifications are always at hand!

Screenshots

Amco CS4 screens
LiveKid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LiveKid at 4.8 against Amco CS's 4.4. LiveKid also leads on ratings volume (92 vs 7) and review sentiment (41% vs 32%). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LiveKid holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LiveKid has 92 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Amco CS's written reviews are positive against 41% of LiveKid's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Amco CS ships an update monthly, LiveKid every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Amco CS versus LiveKid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAmco CSLiveKid
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (7 ratings)4.8 (92 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.6% of reviews40.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings792 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size228 MB119 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInternational Education ServicesLiveKid Sp. z o.o.

Customer experience

Amco CS

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive31.6%
Neutral7.9%
Negative60.5%

LiveKid

All ratings92 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive40.5%
Neutral10.1%
Negative49.4%

In-app purchases

None

Amco CS

No in-app purchases

None

LiveKid

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Amco CS free?
Amco CS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LiveKid free?
LiveKid is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Amco CS or LiveKid?
LiveKid is rated higher. Amco CS averages 4.4 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while LiveKid averages 4.8 from 92 ratings.
Do Amco CS or LiveKid have ads?
Neither Amco CS nor LiveKid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Amco CS or LiveKid?
Amco CS ships an update monthly, and LiveKid every 5 weeks. Most recently, Amco CS was updated on October 6, 2026 and LiveKid on October 7, 2026.

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