Cariina Faculty vs Zeptive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cariina Faculty
This app streamlines school management for educators and administrators. It simplifies event planning, attendance tracking, and parent communication, while also offering features like school bus tracking and AI-powered threat protection.
- Attendance tracking
- Event creation and management
- Parent and faculty messaging
- Permission slips and forms
- School bus tracking
- AI threat protection
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Cariina is a next-generation startup that’s transforming the edtech logistics space by giving teachers, parents, and administrators the tools necessary to succeed in education. Cariina provides software solutions for managing extracurriculars, overseeing transport logistics, and using AI to protect the school from outside threats. Frustrated by complex Excel sheets? Feeling overwhelmed by the number of events you have to manage in your school? Need a software that solves the problems of your position but are unable to find it? We're here to manage these problems and more, simplifying your life and giving you back time to focus on what really matters. Cariina Faculty is tailored to your individual needs, whether you’re a teacher, coach, bus driver or administrator. Cariina Faculty is easy to use - with it you can: TRACK ATTENDANCE Ditch the paper attendance sheets! With Cariina's built-in attendance tracking system, updating the school office with daily attendance has never been easier. CREATE AND MANAGE EVENTS Dump the clunky excel sheets and use Cariina to smoothly plan events! Don’t know if there’s a conflicting event? The materials you requested aren’t available? Not to worry, Cariina tracks all of that and informs you when you might run into an issue with your event! MESSAGE PARENTS AND FACULTY When you need to get the word out, don’t rely on emails nobody ever opens! Send a message through Cariina and be amazed at how smoothly our communications platform runs. PERMISSION SLIPS AND FORMS Easily create colorful forms and slips that will get you the information you need. SCHOOL BUS TRACKING No parent should go through the distress and anxiety of not knowing their child’s journey to an important place like their school or their home. Administrators and teachers can soothe a parent’s worries by letting them know where their children are, at all times.
Zeptive
Monitor and control vape detectors with real-time status updates, historical data, and customizable settings. View device status, sensor readings, and manage alerts and configurations remotely.
- Real-time device status monitoring
- Historical sensor data and graphs
- Customizable detection and warning parameters
- Alert event logging and details
- Battery charge and system time display
- Audible buzzer control
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Zeptive vape detection systems application for monitoring and control. The VapeAlert application allows users to see the status, data, and settings for vape detectors deployed in the field. The Dashboard shows a summary view of the device status. The Readings page is an overview of the current data view and historical data view. The Settings page allows users to modify system parameters. The Dashboard and Readings pages updated as data changes on the sensors and get relayed to the Zeptive application. The Settings page changes how the device is configured. The Dashboard page shows the status of the instrument. The four states are READY, STANDBY (STBY), ALERT, ERROR. In the Ready State the system is ready to analyze the environment. In Standby the system has finished analyzing the environment and is in sleep mode. An Alert state is displayed when the system detects a tamper event or a vape event. An Error state describes a hardware failure in the system. The Dashboard also shows the date and time and the battery charge of the system. Users can view more details on the Alerts from the lower right corner tab. Each alert event is shown in chronological order of the events. The Readings Page can be selected by clicking on the main dashboard tile for the sensor of interest. The Readings Page displays the data outputs from the sensors for a selected system. Users can also see quickly if there is an Alert or the system has No Alert. Gauges are used as a tool to show each sensor output while historical data can be viewed in graphs. The time range of the graphs can be selected to see live data all the way up to 90 days past. The Settings Page allows users to modify detection and warning parameters of the sensors. Users can modify the detection thresholds and data transmission rates as well as the time zone of the system. There is also a button to turn the audible buzzer on or off and a debug window for troubleshooting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cariina Faculty at weekly against Zeptive's every 8 months. Cariina Faculty also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 5). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Cariina Faculty against 4.8 for Zeptive. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 5 respectively.
Cariina Faculty ships an update weekly, Zeptive every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cariina Faculty | Zeptive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Pedro Guimaraes | Zeptive, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cariina Faculty
Zeptive
In-app purchases
Cariina Faculty
No in-app purchases
Zeptive
No in-app purchases








