Imagine Learning Student vs myBackpack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Imagine Learning Student
This app provides interactive language and literacy instruction for students from Pre-K to 6th grade. It offers a personalized learning path with thousands of engaging activities to improve reading, vocabulary, and spelling skills. It requires a site code from a school or district to function.
- Interactive language and literacy instruction
- Personalized learning paths
- Thousands of engaging activities
- Focus on letters, phonological awareness, reading, and vocabulary
- Develops reading comprehension and spelling skills
- Learn to read over 250 books and articles
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Imagine Language & Literacy® harnesses the power of technology to teach language and literacy to students around the world through engaging, interactive instruction. This mobile app is a companion to Imagine Learning's cloud-based services which allows students and teachers to have flexible access to the extensive curriculum activities. Imagine Language & Literacy lessons and activities are designed for Pre-K through 6th grade students. A personalized learning path differentiates instruction and boosts student achievement for English language learners, struggling readers, early childhood students, and students with disabilities. Imagine Language & Literacy includes thousands of fun, interactive, research-based activities, so students have fun while learning! Build a crazy monster while learning the alphabet. Play basketball while learning to spell. Free aliens by identifying the correct letter. Learn to read more than 250 books and articles. Children encounter activities in four main areas: letters, phonological awareness, reading, and vocabulary. Instruction is offered in a variety of literacy skills including letter recognition, reading comprehension, idiom comprehension, vocabulary development, phonic rules, spelling, rhyming, and phoneme segmentation. Please note this app will not work without being assigned a site code specific to your school or district. Please visit http://support.imaginelearning.com for information about System Requirements and Release Notes.
myBackpack
Access your school resources from any device with this cloud desktop application. It provides real-time access to cloud folders, network shares, and applications, making it ideal for remote learning and BYOD initiatives.
- Personalized cloud desktop
- Access from any device
- Real-time file access
- Integrates with Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive
- Access school network shares
- Virtual and instructional desktop views
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myBackpack is your personalized cloud desktop giving access to school from anywhere. Accessible from any device, myBackpack is ideal for BYOD initiatives. myBackpack's multiple views include an innovatively simple virtual desktop and an empowering instructional desktop. With more and different devices showing up in the classrooms today, users expecting 24/7 access, and schools needing to lower costs, a different approach is needed and quick. myBackpack gives you real time access to your cloud folders, any mapped Active Directory shares and Apps if your school or organization has myBackpack. Seamlessly access all your files: Dropbox Google Drive SkyDrive School Network myBackpack Cloud Drive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Imagine Learning Student at 3.2 against myBackpack's 2.9. Imagine Learning Student also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 76). myBackpack's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 36%) and device support (3 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Imagine Learning Student holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Imagine Learning Student has 1K ratings behind it against 76, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Imagine Learning Student's written reviews are positive against 50% of myBackpack's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Imagine Learning Student | myBackpack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (1K ratings) — better | 2.9 (76 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 76 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Imagine Learning, Inc. | Atlanta Public Schools |
Customer experience
Imagine Learning Student
myBackpack
Bugs and requests
Imagine Learning Student
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and log-outs
- Incorrect scoring/grading in activities
- Compatibility issues on certain devices
- Syncing/progress issues when switching devices
Requested features
4 requests- More engaging and challenging content for older students
- Improved stability and fewer bugs
- Faster pacing and less repetition
- Better customization options
myBackpack
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Imagine Learning Student
No in-app purchases
myBackpack
No in-app purchases
Questions
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