TEACHERS | TalkingPoints vs Joyofy | For Schools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
Joyofy | For Schools
This application streamlines school visitor management by allowing them to sign in and out of school premises. Access is restricted to schools that have been granted permission, with administrator-created login credentials.
- Visitor sign-in/out
- School premises management
- Admin-created credentials
- Restricted school access
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Joyofy | For Schools is a software product designed for managing and efficiently running limited set of school functions. This App would primarily be used by school visitors for signing in and signing out from the school premises. App usage is limited to schools that have been granted access to the application. School account and login credentials are created by the admin at the backend and hence schools do not need to sign up from Application.
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Verdict
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints and Joyofy | For Schools both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Joyofy | For Schools's written reviews are positive against 64% of TEACHERS | TalkingPoints's. Joyofy | For Schools also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.0). TEACHERS | TalkingPoints's advantage is ratings volume (5.1K vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Joyofy | For Schools holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TEACHERS | TalkingPoints has 5.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of TEACHERS | TalkingPoints's written reviews are positive against 100% of Joyofy | For Schools's.
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints ships an update every 3 weeks, Joyofy | For Schools every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | TEACHERS | TalkingPoints | Joyofy | For Schools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5.1K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TalkingPoints Corp | Abhinav Agarwal |
Customer experience
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints
Joyofy | For Schools
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
Joyofy | For Schools
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TEACHERS | TalkingPoints
No in-app purchases
Joyofy | For Schools
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is TEACHERS | TalkingPoints free?
Is Joyofy | For Schools free?
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