Label Pics vs SmartTeach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Label Pics
This app simplifies organization by allowing you to create custom photo labels. Use your device's camera or photo library to add pictures, title them, select label size and font, and then print or email a PDF. It's ideal for home, office, or educational settings.
- Use device camera or photo library
- Add titles to photos
- Select label size and font
- Print or email PDF labels
- Organize home, office, and classroom items
- Create visual aids and flashcards
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If you love and crave simple organization, you’ve found your new favorite app! This easy, all-in-one picture-labeling tool is so simple to use, you’ll want to label everything. Simplify making labels with pictures for your home, office, classroom, work room, garage, or storage. Easily use your device’s camera to add pictures to your labels, and print them from your printer or email them for later use. LabelPics allows you to quickly and effortlessly create custom photo labels •Use your device's camera to snap a picture, or use your photo library to select an existing one •Quickly title the photos •Select label size •Select the font •Print or email an automatically generated PDF Check out a few of the things you can instantly accomplish: •Organize office or craft supplies •Create formatted picture labels to use in an early childhood setting •Make photo name tags •Pocket chart items •Create picture flash cards for words or sounds •Create classroom labels •Quickly make or change labels throughout your classrooms •Easily establish permanent records for inventory and insurance needs •Tag boxes for moving or storage •Make children’s toy clean up simple and fun with a name and picture label showing where it belongs •Generate schedules, chore charts and behavior charts with pictures and word descriptions •Create classroom visual aids •Great for providing clear, precise, repeatable directions LabelPics is perfect to use for early childhood development settings such as Daycares, Preschools, Kindergarten classrooms, and Special Education settings. It's a great tool to help children recognize environmental print connected to real world objects, or for anyone that loves organized and orderly living, learning and teaching environments.
SmartTeach
This app helps early childhood educators streamline daily classroom tasks. It simplifies documentation, classroom management, and family communication with easy-to-use tools for online and offline use.
- Create documentation and share insights
- View and teach from daily schedule
- Communicate with families
- Save and share photos/videos
- Assess from curriculum resources
- Track attendance and care routines
- Conduct health screenings
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The SmartTeach® app by Teaching Strategies offers early childhood educators an easy and efficient way to quickly complete essential daily tasks on the fly, online, or offline. The SmartTeach app simplifies teaching, documentation, classroom management, and family engagement throughout the day, enabling teachers to make the most of every moment with easy-to-use tools right at their fingertips. The SmartTeach app is accessible to Teachers and Administrators using Teaching Strategies products such as GOLD®, The Creative Curriculum® Cloud, Kickstart LiteracyTM, and Tadpoles®. Download SmartTeach by Teaching Strategies to access our new and improved features & functionality. SmartTeach offers early childhood educators a single app to support all essential classroom tasks, including: Create documentation and share insights with families View and teach directly from your daily schedule, curriculum, activities, and care routines Communicate with families Save & share photos, videos, and other media across devices View & assess from resources like Intentional Teaching Experiences, Skill Development Cards, and Mighty Minutes®* Identify Infant and Toddler children’s developmental level with the Entry Screener to dynamically populate individualized support for each child* Take attendance, move children or staff, and complete name-to-face checks* Track care routines and share Daily Reports with families* Conduct health screenings for children and/or staff* *Feature availability is dependent on which Teaching Strategies products your classroom licenses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SmartTeach at Free against Label Pics's $1.99. SmartTeach also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 6). Label Pics's advantage is chart position (#52 vs unranked). On review sentiment, 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
SmartTeach is free to download; Label Pics costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SmartTeach holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartTeach has 1.2K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Label Pics's written reviews are positive against 24% of SmartTeach's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Label Pics ships an update every 3 weeks, SmartTeach monthly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Label Pics | SmartTeach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (6 ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better | 24.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #52 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Kasper | Teaching Strategies, LLC |
Customer experience
Label Pics
SmartTeach
User reviews
Label Pics
From 6 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and easy to use
- ⏱️ Time saver for teachers
- 🖼️ Great for creating picture labels
- 🖨️ Direct printing from phone
- 📧 Emailing labels for backup
Room to improve
- 🐛 App freezes frequently
- 🐛 App crashes often
- 🐛 Screen grayed out and unresponsive
- 🐛 Lost work after updates
- 🐛 Text not visible when typing
SmartTeach
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy and awesome app to track notes and submit to Teaching Strategies Gold
- 👍 Brings together curriculum and assessment
- 👍 Convenient and easy to use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent technical glitches and bugs
- 🐛 Performance issues
- 🐛 Login issues
- 🐛 Messaging and communication problems
- 🐛 Delayed or failed uploads
Bugs and requests
Label Pics
Reported bugs
44 issues- App freezes in the middle of making labels
- Work disappears after update
- Page jumps while typing, words not visible
- Black label color is off to the right
- App freezes and will not allow any actions
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- Screen changed to gray, cannot make labels
- App shuts down when submitting to print
- App stopped working after 1 week
- Cannot access the app at all
- App will not print anything, kicks user out
- App crashes every time user goes to print
- App freezes up frequently
- App crashes for no reason
- App is slow to load pictures
- App often erases texts that have been entered
- No updates provided to fix problems
- Cannot remove one item put on last year
- Screen is grayed out, cannot do anything
- App went gray, cannot do anything
- Pictures are blank, total white
- App began crashing a few weeks ago every time trying to print
- App does not work at all
- App is unresponsive to clicks
- Screen is a light shade of gray and unresponsive
- Project is gone after starting a new one
- Screen is gray and cannot use the app
- Submit button does not work on website
- App dims down color and won't let user click buttons
- Cannot click on anything
- Keeps crashing, only allowing one label at a time
- No way to get rid of text box
- Submit button on website is a dud
- App crashes every time user tries to make a label
- Photos cannot be rotated once placed
- Print was too big and cut off
- App slows phone down to a crawl
- Link to contact developer did not work
- App crashes constantly
- Cannot get app to open
- Work is not saving, not there when going back into app
- Cannot adjust and resize picture to fit space
- Cannot zoom in on picture added to label
- Words for label were cut off
- Tried to submit to app support, submit button not working
Requested features
13 requests- Save files directly on the app
- Save color settings for text
- More rectangular label size options
- Ability to rotate labels
- Picture on the side of the word
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- 3x5 index card size option
- Edit pictures in-app (turning, cropping)
- Add new label sizes (e.g., 9.8 x 3.5)
- Compatibility with laptop and iPad
- More font options
- Ability to resize photos
- Preview label with photo
- Option to not use text box
SmartTeach
Reported bugs
4 issues- Screener not working when clicking plus sign
- Inability to log in through app, but able to log in on website
- Delayed or failed message delivery
- Uploaded documentation still showing in app, causing confusion
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to select and apply objectives to multiple pieces of documentation at once
- Add ability to select and delete multiple photos/videos at once
- Add ability to change date on add documentation page
- Add landscape mode support for easier typing
- Improve translation and communication features for ESL families
In-app purchases
Label Pics
No in-app purchases
SmartTeach
No in-app purchases
Questions
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