Comparison

Preschool Teacher vs SmartTeach

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Preschool Teacher

This app offers a playful learning island for children aged 3-6, featuring interactive games and voice-guided lessons. It introduces vocabulary, shapes, numbers, and emotional intelligence through engaging activities and a gentle progression system.

Highlights
  • Voice-guided learning island
  • Interactive games for vocabulary and skills
  • Emotional intelligence activities
  • Coding fundamentals through games
  • Multi-child profiles
  • Bilingual mode
  • Progress tracking and weekly summaries
Features
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Preschool Teacher is a learning island full of voices, pictures and games for children aged 3 to 6! Our friendly guide Dedi takes your child on a journey across Dedi's Island. Every place brings new words and games that help them stick. There is nothing to read: Dedi explains everything out loud and children explore by tapping. NEW: THE FEELINGS GARDEN Find feelings in faces, think about how someone feels in a situation, and breathe with Dedi as a balloon fills up. Every right answer makes a flower bloom in the garden. No feeling is good or bad. NEW: PATH GAMES • Maze: guide a baby animal to its mother with your finger • Build the Road: put the missing road piece in place and let the vehicle drive • Captain Dedi: line up arrow cards and sail the boat to the island. A first step into coding! NEW: CHILD PROFILES FOR SIBLINGS Up to 3 children: at start, each child taps their own animal. Stars, age and progress are kept separately for each child. DEDI'S JOURNEY Tap the yellow button on the map and Dedi prepares the day's path: Learn, Find It and one game, then a celebration. Words that are due for review or feel tricky come first. 12 PLACES ON THE ISLAND • Animal Forest: animals and their sounds • Garden Market: fruits and vegetables • Harbor Town: vehicles • Workshop House: everyday objects • Rainbow Hill: colors • Shape Castle: shapes • Number Train: numbers and counting • Dedi's House: our body, clothes, family, home • Town Square: jobs and actions • Feelings Garden: feelings and calming down • Pearl Cove: a seashell memory game • Paint Hut: a drawing book with pencils, brush, shapes and a paint bucket 25 GAMES • New: Faces, How Do They Feel?, Breathe with Dedi, Maze, Build the Road, Captain Dedi • Also: What Comes Next?, Order by Size, Line Up the Wagons, More or Less?, Find the Opposite, Which One Is Different?, When?, Where?, Which Sense?, Puzzle, Balloon Pop, Castle Gate, All Aboard, How Many?, Shadow Match, Whose Sound?, Fill the Basket, Where Does It Go? and the Pearl Cove memory game LEARN AND PLAY • More than 300 words with real photos, friendly drawings and clear voice-over • "Can you find it?": find the picture you hear and collect stars • Bilingual mode: each word is read in the app language, then in a second language • No penalties for mistakes: Dedi encourages and celebrates every win GROWS WITH YOUR CHILD • Levels for ages 3, 4 and 5 (Sprout, Sapling, Tree) • Difficulty goes up as your child succeeds and eases off when needed • English, Turkish, German, Arabic and Spanish: switch language with one tap PARENT CORNER • New weekly summary: days played, time, new words and development areas, compared only with your child's own previous week • New learning guide: a skill map, what each game teaches and questions to ask afterwards • New 5 minutes at home: short, screen-free activity cards • Development card, age level, language and music settings • Illustrated user guide, protected by a parent question • Progress is stored only on the device, no account needed The app shows one small, child-safe, non-personalized banner ad at the bottom of the screen. There are no full-screen or video ads. Privacy policy: https://egitapp.com/okuloncesiogretmeni/gizlilik/

About

SmartTeach

This app helps early childhood educators streamline daily classroom tasks. It simplifies documentation, classroom management, and family communication with easy-to-use tools for online and offline use.

Highlights
  • Create documentation and share insights
  • View and teach from daily schedule
  • Communicate with families
  • Save and share photos/videos
  • Assess from curriculum resources
  • Track attendance and care routines
  • Conduct health screenings
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The SmartTeach® app by Teaching Strategies offers early childhood educators an easy and efficient way to quickly complete essential daily tasks on the fly, online, or offline. The SmartTeach app simplifies teaching, documentation, classroom management, and family engagement throughout the day, enabling teachers to make the most of every moment with easy-to-use tools right at their fingertips. The SmartTeach app is accessible to Teachers and Administrators using Teaching Strategies products such as GOLD®, The Creative Curriculum® Cloud, Kickstart LiteracyTM, and Tadpoles®. Download SmartTeach by Teaching Strategies to access our new and improved features & functionality. SmartTeach offers early childhood educators a single app to support all essential classroom tasks, including: Create documentation and share insights with families View and teach directly from your daily schedule, curriculum, activities, and care routines Communicate with families Save & share photos, videos, and other media across devices View & assess from resources like Intentional Teaching Experiences, Skill Development Cards, and Mighty Minutes®* Identify Infant and Toddler children’s developmental level with the Entry Screener to dynamically populate individualized support for each child* Take attendance, move children or staff, and complete name-to-face checks* Track care routines and share Daily Reports with families* Conduct health screenings for children and/or staff* *Feature availability is dependent on which Teaching Strategies products your classroom licenses.

Screenshots

Preschool Teacher4 screens
SmartTeach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Preschool Teacher at 83% against SmartTeach's 24%. SmartTeach's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Preschool Teacher ships an update every 3 months, SmartTeach monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Preschool Teacher versus SmartTeach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPreschool TeacherSmartTeach
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better24.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1.2K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB103 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHulya YetkinTeaching Strategies, LLC

Customer experience

Preschool Teacher

Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

SmartTeach

All ratings1,190 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive24.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative64.0%

Bugs and requests

Preschool Teacher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

SmartTeach

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Screener not working when clicking plus sign
  • Inability to log in through app, but able to log in on website
  • Delayed or failed message delivery
  • Uploaded documentation still showing in app, causing confusion

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to select and apply objectives to multiple pieces of documentation at once
  • Add ability to select and delete multiple photos/videos at once
  • Add ability to change date on add documentation page
  • Add landscape mode support for easier typing
  • Improve translation and communication features for ESL families

In-app purchases

None

Preschool Teacher

No in-app purchases

None

SmartTeach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Preschool Teacher free?
Preschool Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmartTeach free?
SmartTeach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Preschool Teacher or SmartTeach have ads?
Preschool Teacher shows ads; SmartTeach does not.
Which is updated more often, Preschool Teacher or SmartTeach?
Preschool Teacher ships an update every 3 months, and SmartTeach monthly. Most recently, Preschool Teacher was updated on November 6, 2026 and SmartTeach on November 3, 2026.

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