KoolGround vs TeacherEase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KoolGround
Streamline classroom management with features for attendance, assignments, grading, and communication. This app helps educators save time and paper by centralizing tasks and improving parent-teacher engagement.
- Automated attendance tracking
- Paperless assignment creation and collection
- Integrated gradebook with bulk editing
- Class news and parent communication
- Parent access to student progress
- Detailed class and student reports
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KoolGround is the easiest and fastest way to automate your classroom tasks. It is a simple and beautiful app for teachers, students, and parents. * Attendance: record attendance in class and after-school care and activities * Assignments: create, share, collect, review, comment, and grade – all in one place, paperlessly * Gradebook: fully synced with assignments provides easy to use bulk edit and tools to excuse and drop individual grades * Class news: a simple way to improve communication with students and parents and more: * Parent access: to keep parents informed on their child progress * Reports: for the entire class, or only for particular students * Unlimited classes and students * Invite more teachers to teach classes together KoolGround saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, share assignments, communicate, and stay organized. KoolGround contains no ads and never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes. We know - your passion is teaching! Our goal is to work hard to help automate your classroom tasks so you can focus on teaching our kids! Thank you! Privacy Policy: https://koolground.com/privacy Terms Of Service: https://koolground.com/terms
TeacherEase
This mobile application provides school administrators and teachers with secure access to student data. It allows for viewing and modifying information directly from an iOS device, offering unique mobile-specific workflows not found on the web service.
- View student data
- Modify student data
- Mobile-specific workflows
- Secure data access
- Companion to SaaS platform
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This app is a companion to TeacherEase, a SaaS platform for schools and districts to track and securely share student data. It allows admins and teachers to view and modify TeacherEase data on your iOS device. You must already have a TeacherEase account to use the app. You’ll notice the app has diverged from our existing website functionality. Its unique workflow is our first release of mobile-specific functionality for admins and teachers. It is not available through our web service. This app is for admins and teachers. We offer a separate app for parents and students, which may be found here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/teacherease/id1232341133
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TeacherEase at 4.6 against KoolGround's 2.0. TeacherEase also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). KoolGround's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
TeacherEase holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TeacherEase has 347 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of KoolGround's written reviews are positive against 42% of TeacherEase's.
KoolGround ships an update every 9 months, TeacherEase every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KoolGround | TeacherEase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 4.6 (347 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 41.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 347 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | C FIVE Inc | Common Goal Systems Inc. |
Customer experience
KoolGround
TeacherEase
Bugs and requests
KoolGround
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TeacherEase
Reported bugs
2 issues- 🐛 Sign in error page not resolved
- 🐛 Search students not working
Requested features
3 requests- 💡 Paraprofessionals should be able to sign in
- 💡 Wish to choose excused/other absence reasons
- 💡 Make app more like the desktop version
In-app purchases
KoolGround
No in-app purchases
TeacherEase
No in-app purchases
Questions
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