Relay Smart Agent vs Rugs alive™ Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Relay Smart Agent
This application offers web filtering and safety features for iOS devices, ensuring CIPA compliance for schools. It provides on and off-campus protection and reports on student activity, acting as a hardware-free cloud solution.
- CIPA compliant web filtering
- On/off campus safety
- Student activity reporting
- Hardware-free cloud solution
- Anytime, anywhere filtering
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This app provides anytime, anywhere filtering, safety, and reporting on iOS devices for schools using the Relay web filter from Lightspeed Systems. With the Relay Smart Agent for iOS, schools get: CIPA compliant web filtering On/off campus safety Reporting on student activity A hardware-free cloud solution And more!
Rugs alive™ Plus
This app uses augmented reality to bring educational rugs to life in 3D. Students can interact with zoo animals, practice letter and animal identification, and engage in collaborative learning activities. It's designed to enhance classroom engagement and introduce early STEM concepts.
- 3D Augmented Reality animal animations
- Alphabet and animal identification
- Habitat matching games
- Virtual animal placement
- Photo capture of AR animals
- Supports collaboration and communication
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Our colorful and vibrant classroom alphabet/habitat rugs come to life in 3D Augmented Reality with help from the Rugs alive™ Plus mobile app. Not only are our rugs perfect for practicing upper and lowercase letters, animal identification, and animal/habitat matching, they also have 26 zoo animals that spring to life right in your classroom! Teachers and early learners love the interaction! Your students will be challenged to match a Habitat Card with an animal that lives there to be rewarded with that animal joining the class through the magic of 3D Augmented Reality. The Rugs alive Plus app allows placement of the animals virtually anywhere in your real world environment! Alive Studios’ rugs and the Rugs alive Plus app can also be utilized for increasing student collaboration, building relationships, and effective communication as well as early concepts of STEM and problem solving. The Rugs alive Plus app allows users to take photos of the zoo animals, which may or may not include other people. The photos taken are automatically saved locally into the device’s photo section, if permitted by the user. Rugs alive Plus does not require user accounts or logins, nor does it collect user data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rugs alive™ Plus at 100% against Relay Smart Agent's 0%. Rugs alive™ Plus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.2) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months). Relay Smart Agent's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 3). 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.
Rugs alive™ Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Relay Smart Agent has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Relay Smart Agent's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rugs alive™ Plus's.
Relay Smart Agent ships an update every 2 months, Rugs alive™ Plus every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Relay Smart Agent | Rugs alive™ Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.2 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 326 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lightspeed Solutions, LLC | Alive Studios, LLC |
Customer experience
Relay Smart Agent
Rugs alive™ Plus
In-app purchases
Relay Smart Agent
No in-app purchases
Rugs alive™ Plus
No in-app purchases
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