Comparison

KoolGround vs Teacher Aide (cloud)

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Teacher Aide (cloud)

This app helps educators manage student attendance, grades, and seating charts across multiple semesters. It offers cloud synchronization for seamless device switching and provides tools to identify at-risk students and communicate with parents. Export data easily for integration with other systems.

Highlights
  • Cloud database for multi-device sync
  • Attendance and grade tracking
  • Seating chart creation
  • Identify at-risk students
  • Bulk email notifications
  • Google Classroom roster sync
  • CSV grade export
Features
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Designed by a teacher, for teachers! • Cloud database allows easy switching between iPhone, iPad and MacBook • Attendance, Grades, Seating Chart for up to 6 semesters with 10 classes each. • Variety of PDF reports • Identify students at-risk due to attendance or grades • Easily notify students, parents and advisors with bulk email. • Easily sync student roster from Google Classroom • Export grades in CSV format to use with other grading systems Teacher Aide (cloud) is designed for use by individual teachers or co teachers of the same class. The app stores data in the cloud, so the the teacher can easily switch between devices, such as an iPhone, iPad or MacBook. Try out the app for free for 1 month with one class and see if you find it useful. An easy to use attendance and grading interface makes record keeping in the digital classroom a simple process. Additional features teachers will find useful are the seating chart, progress report and identification of student at risk due to attendance or academic performance. An auto-renewable monthly subscription allows access for up to 10 or 20 classes in each semester, and multiple semesters are supported. Please email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com with any questions or suggestions. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms Autorenewable Subscription Details To access features after the 1 month free access, the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable monthly or annual subscription. This means the subscription automatically renews 24 hours before the end of the subscription date. Auto renewable subscriptions can be managed from the user iTunes account, and a link is provided in the subscription screen while in the app. All future updates are included with the auto renewable monthly subscription. The subscription may be cancelled for any future months, and the user will still have access to the data, only the additional features will be disabled. Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeacherAidePro

Screenshots

KoolGround4 screens
Teacher Aide (cloud)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Teacher Aide (cloud) at 79% against KoolGround's 0%. Teacher Aide (cloud) also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months). KoolGround's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Teacher Aide (cloud) sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. KoolGround asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Teacher Aide (cloud) holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Teacher Aide (cloud) has 45 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 79% of Teacher Aide (cloud)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

KoolGround ships an update every 9 months, Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
KoolGround versus Teacher Aide (cloud): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKoolGroundTeacher Aide (cloud)
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (4 ratings)4.8 (45 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings445 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperC FIVE IncGlen Botha

Customer experience

KoolGround

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Teacher Aide (cloud)

All ratings45 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.4%

In-app purchases

None

KoolGround

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Teacher Aide (cloud)

Subscriptions6
  • Standard (10 classes)$3.991 Month
  • Standard (20 classes)$6.991 Month
  • Premium (10 classes)$6.991 Month
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  • Premium (20 classes)$9.991 Month
  • Premium (10 classes)$69.991 Year
  • Premium (20 classes)$99.991 Year

Questions

Is KoolGround free?
KoolGround is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Teacher Aide (cloud) free?
Teacher Aide (cloud) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, KoolGround or Teacher Aide (cloud)?
Teacher Aide (cloud) is rated higher. KoolGround averages 2.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Teacher Aide (cloud) averages 4.8 from 45 ratings.
Do KoolGround or Teacher Aide (cloud) have ads?
Neither KoolGround nor Teacher Aide (cloud) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, KoolGround or Teacher Aide (cloud)?
KoolGround ships an update every 9 months, and Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. Most recently, KoolGround was updated on October 6, 2026 and Teacher Aide (cloud) on October 8, 2026.

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