FAMILIES | TalkingPoints vs Together Facing The Challenge
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!
Together Facing The Challenge
This app provides an evidence-based model for agencies to train staff in trauma-informed care and coach caregivers. It simplifies documentation, facilitates communication, and allows real-time tracking of progress and behavior challenges.
- Evidence-based trauma-informed care model
- Staff training and caregiver coaching
- Simplified documentation
- Real-time progress tracking
- Behavior challenge monitoring
- Efficient communication tools
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Together Facing the Challenge is a unique evidence-based model built for agencies to train staff in trauma-informed care while also empowering staff to effectively coach caregivers. With the TFTC app, content is easily accessible, documentation is made simpler, and coaches can build stronger relationships with caregivers. They can communicate efficiently, track behavior challenges and see progress in real time. Together Facing the Challenge equips coaches and caregivers to make an even greater impact and reduces the risk of burnout, so everyone can thrive.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FAMILIES | TalkingPoints at every 3 weeks against Together Facing The Challenge's every 9 months. FAMILIES | TalkingPoints also leads on ratings volume (92K vs 3) and chart position (#183 vs unranked). Together Facing The Challenge's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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.
Together Facing The Challenge 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 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints ships an update every 3 weeks, Together Facing The Challenge every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FAMILIES | TalkingPoints | Together Facing The Challenge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (92K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 92K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #183 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TalkingPoints Corp | 3LS Innovations |
Customer experience
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
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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
Together Facing The Challenge
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FAMILIES | TalkingPoints
No in-app purchases
Together Facing The Challenge
No in-app purchases
Questions
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