Comparison

Label Pics vs SmartTeach

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

Screenshots

Label Pics4 screens
SmartTeach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SmartTeach at Free against Label Pics's $1.99. SmartTeach also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 4). Label Pics's advantage is chart position (#32 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SmartTeach holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartTeach has 1.2K ratings behind it against 4, 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Label Pics ships an update every 3 weeks, SmartTeach monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Label Pics versus SmartTeach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLabel PicsSmartTeach
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating3.5 (4 ratings)4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.3% of reviews — better24.0% of reviews
Number of ratings41.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#32 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB105 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrew KasperTeaching Strategies, LLC

Customer experience

Label Pics

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive27.3%
Neutral29.5%
Negative43.2%

SmartTeach

All ratings1,185 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive24.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative64.0%

Bugs and requests

Label Pics

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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

None

Label Pics

No in-app purchases

None

SmartTeach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Label Pics free?
Label Pics costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmartTeach free?
SmartTeach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Label Pics or SmartTeach?
SmartTeach is rated higher. Label Pics averages 3.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while SmartTeach averages 4.8 from 1.2K ratings.
Do Label Pics or SmartTeach have ads?
Neither Label Pics nor SmartTeach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Label Pics or SmartTeach?
Label Pics ships an update every 3 weeks, and SmartTeach monthly. Most recently, Label Pics was updated on September 21, 2026 and SmartTeach on September 17, 2026.

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