Comparison

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints vs Incidents+

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

Head to head
About

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints

This app facilitates seamless communication between educators and parents, overcoming language barriers with over 100 supported languages. Teachers can send messages, share media, and conduct polls while keeping their personal contact information private. It's designed for ease of use, even for busy educators.

Highlights
  • 2-way translation in 100+ languages
  • Send messages to individuals, groups, or entire classes
  • Keep cell phone numbers private
  • Attach pictures, videos, polls, and files
  • Preschedule messages
Features
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The TalkingPoints Teacher app helps teachers reach all parents and guardians, regardless of language, via text messages in 100+ languages. Our translation is done by a combination of human translators and machines, allowing for seamless communication with all of your families. TalkingPoints helps teachers • Communicate with non-English speaking parents through automatic 2-way translation • Quickly send messages to one parent, a group of parents or to the whole class • Keep their cell phone numbers private by sending text messages through the app • Attach pictures, videos, polls, and files to text messages to share what students are learning in school • Preschedule messages to go out when parents are available to read them "Teachers have busy schedules and don't have a lot of time to learn how to use a new tool, but what I want other educators to know is how easy it is to communicate with parents through TalkingPoints. I love it and use it everyday!” - Ms. Cardenas, ESL teacher TalkingPoints is free for teachers in the U.S./Canada. Sign up today!

About

Incidents+

Streamline school discipline by digitally reporting and managing student incidents, tardies, and merits. Schedule consequences and gain insights into behavioral trends to improve campus climate and student support.

Highlights
  • Report office referrals, incidents, tardies, and merits
  • Schedule and track consequences
  • Analyze student behavior trends
  • Communicate with parents and professionals
  • Modernize referral process
  • Real-time campus behavior analysis
Features
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Report office referrals, minor incidents, tardies, and merits; schedule and follow through with consequences; and troubleshoot student conduct. --- Incidents+ replaces your referral process with a modern, efficient workflow that gives you time back to reinvest in school climate and delivers the real-time analysis required to get ahead of behavioral trends and patterns on your campus. - Quickly report office referrals, minor incidents, tardies, and merits without triplicate forms or double-entry. - Schedule actions in seconds and effortlessly keep your staff informed about who is assigned where. - Identify students in need of services, pinpoint where and when challenging behavior is most likely to occur, and measure response to targeted interventions. - Communicate more effectively with parents and professionals. To use this app, you must have access to your school or district’s Educator's Handbook Incidents+ account.

Screenshots

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints4 screens
Incidents+4 screens

Verdict

The call

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints and Incidents+ both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Incidents+'s written reviews are positive against 64% of TEACHERS | TalkingPoints's. TEACHERS | TalkingPoints's advantage is ratings volume (5.1K vs 425) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for TEACHERS | TalkingPoints against 4.9 for Incidents+. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TEACHERS | TalkingPoints has 5.1K ratings behind it against 425, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of TEACHERS | TalkingPoints's written reviews are positive against 80% of Incidents+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints ships an update every 3 weeks, Incidents+ monthly. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints versus Incidents+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTEACHERS | TalkingPointsIncidents+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (5.1K ratings)4.9 (425 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.1K — better425
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTalkingPoints CorpEducatorsHandbook.com

Customer experience

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints

All ratings5,127 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.0%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews86 reviews
Positive64.0%
Neutral16.3%
Negative19.8%

Incidents+

All ratings264 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative0.4%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and requests

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes on launch
  • Messages not sending or receiving
  • Inability to log in or access account
  • Inconsistent performance on different devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Increase character limit for messages
  • Add ability to edit/delete scheduled messages
  • Improve translation accuracy
  • Provide more language options
  • Streamline login and account management

Incidents+

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

TEACHERS | TalkingPoints

No in-app purchases

None

Incidents+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TEACHERS | TalkingPoints free?
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Incidents+ free?
Incidents+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TEACHERS | TalkingPoints or Incidents+?
Incidents+ is rated higher. TEACHERS | TalkingPoints averages 4.8 out of 5 from 5.1K ratings, while Incidents+ averages 4.9 from 425 ratings.
Do TEACHERS | TalkingPoints or Incidents+ have ads?
Neither TEACHERS | TalkingPoints nor Incidents+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TEACHERS | TalkingPoints or Incidents+?
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints ships an update every 3 weeks, and Incidents+ monthly. Most recently, TEACHERS | TalkingPoints was updated on November 6, 2026 and Incidents+ on November 6, 2026.

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