FAMILIES | TalkingPoints vs Catapult Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
This app facilitates communication between parents and educators, allowing users to send and receive messages in their preferred language. It automatically translates messages into English for teachers, fostering greater involvement in a child's education.
- Parent-teacher messaging
- Multilingual communication
- Automatic message translation
- Stay engaged in child's learning
- School communication platform
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TalkingPoints is a free application that lets you communicate with your children’s teachers and school. You will be able to send and receive messages through this application in your preferred language, because TalkingPoints will translate your message into English for teachers. Stay engaged and involved in your child’s learning by communicating and collaborating with their teacher and school using TalkingPoints!
Catapult Connect
Instantly distribute important messages to your entire community through various channels like social media, text, and email. This tool simplifies mass communication, saving staff time and increasing productivity with a centralized platform.
- Distribute messages via social media, text, phone, email
- Post immediate communication on the go
- Secure login with touch or face ID
- Centralized communication hub
- Reduce staff time and increase productivity
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Get the word out with Connect, a mass communication tool that allows you to distribute important messages to your whole community across multiple mediums instantly. * Send messages/info via social media, text, phone, email, newsletter, CatapultCMS, and CatapultAPP. * Easy to use & navigate: Post immediate communication on the go. * No more passwords: Set up touch or face id, so you don’t have to worry about usernames or passwords. Use CatapultConnect to: * Conveniently post from anywhere * Reduce staff time & increase productivity * One centralized location for all of your communication
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: FAMILIES | TalkingPoints at 92K against Catapult Connect's 1. FAMILIES | TalkingPoints also leads on chart position (#57 vs unranked). Catapult Connect's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). 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.
Catapult Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FAMILIES | TalkingPoints has 92K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | FAMILIES | TalkingPoints | Catapult Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (92K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 92K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #57 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TalkingPoints Corp | Catapult K12 |
Customer experience
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
Catapult Connect
Bugs and requests
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Logging out issues
- Notifications not working
- Slow to load messages
- Unreliable service
Requested features
6 requests- Add dark mode
- Improve message organization and filtering
- Allow both parents to see conversation history
- Provide desktop/web interface
- Add time/date stamps for messages
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- Improve notification system
Catapult Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
No in-app purchases
Catapult Connect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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