FAMILIES | TalkingPoints vs Aspen Crossing Elementary
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!
Aspen Crossing Elementary
This app connects parents, students, teachers, and administrators with school news, interactive resources like event calendars, and quick access to online tools. It keeps the school community informed and engaged.
- School news updates
- Interactive event calendars
- Access to online resources
- Connects parents, students, and staff
- Stay informed and engaged
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The Aspen Crossing Elementary app enables parents, students, teachers and administrators to quickly access the resources, tools, news and information to stay connected and informed! The Aspen Crossing Elementary app features: - Important news from your school - Interactive resources including event calendars and more - Quick access to online resources
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: FAMILIES | TalkingPoints at 92K against Aspen Crossing Elementary's 2. FAMILIES | TalkingPoints also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and chart position (#63 vs unranked). Aspen Crossing Elementary's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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.
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FAMILIES | TalkingPoints has 92K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FAMILIES | TalkingPoints | Aspen Crossing Elementary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (92K ratings) — better | 4.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 92K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #63 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TalkingPoints Corp | Cherry Creek School District #5 |
Customer experience
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
Aspen Crossing Elementary
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
Aspen Crossing Elementary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
No in-app purchases
Aspen Crossing Elementary
No in-app purchases
Questions
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