MIT App Inventor vs Mashrek
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MIT App Inventor
Learn programming and build mobile applications using a visual, block-based interface. This educational tool helps users understand computational thinking and design their own projects, with built-in tutorials and over 60 components for diverse app creation.
- Visual block-based programming
- Mobile app development
- Computational thinking education
- Built-in tutorials
- Over 60 app components
- Project testing and debugging
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MIT App Inventor is an educational tool to learn computational thinking and computational action principles through building mobile apps. Used by over one million people worldwide every year, it is one of the premier platforms for computer science education. Use this companion app to test drive projects, debug blocks code, and show your friends and family your creations. Using a blocks based programming language, design and code your own projects, or use one of the many books and curricula to learn about coding. App Inventor also includes built-in tutorials for running student workshops. This version of App Inventor includes over 60 components, from user interface elements such as buttons and switches, to sensors, connectivity and multimedia components so your projects can interact with the world.
Mashrek
This app provides parents with real-time access to their child's eSchool profile, including absences, homework, and school news. Students can communicate with the school, and employees can view salary slips and attendance logs. It features a bilingual interface and push notifications.
- Real-time eSchool profile access
- Student communication with school
- View absences and homework
- Access certificates and school news
- Employee salary slips and attendance
- Bilingual interface (Arabic/English)
- Push notifications
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Mashrek application helps parents to access real time data of their eSchool profiles and students to communicate with the school, view student absences, homework assignments, certificates, school news and calendar, etc. It also helps employees to check their salary slips and attendance log. Mashrek application is a bilingual user interface (Arabic / English), which allows push notifications for most of the daily transactions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mashrek at 3.6 against MIT App Inventor's 2.8. Mashrek also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). MIT App Inventor's advantage is review sentiment (20% vs 0%). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Mashrek holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of MIT App Inventor's written reviews are positive against 0% of Mashrek's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
MIT App Inventor ships an update every 3 months, Mashrek weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MIT App Inventor | Mashrek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (16 ratings) | 3.6 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 19.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Pioneers Academy |
Customer experience
MIT App Inventor
Mashrek
Bugs and requests
MIT App Inventor
Reported bugs
3 issues- App frequently crashes or freezes
- Connectivity problems when trying to test apps
- Inconsistent behavior and unexpected errors
Requested features
3 requests- Improved compatibility with modern devices and operating systems
- More intuitive and user-friendly interface
- Better error handling and debugging tools
Mashrek
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
MIT App Inventor
No in-app purchases
Mashrek
No in-app purchases
Questions
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