Rugs alive vs Elevate Your Classroom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rugs alive
This augmented reality app brings alphabet rugs to life, allowing children to explore 3D animals and learn letters and habitats. Kids can interact with animals, take photos, and enjoy an educational music video.
- Augmented reality animal interaction
- 3D animal exploration
- Learn letters and habitats
- Interactive music video
- Photo opportunities with animals
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This is the accompanying app that will make our Classroom Rugs come alive and become interactive with the magic of augmented reality (3D without glasses). Match one of our seven habitat cards (pdf) with the correct animal on the rug and watch that animal come alive! Your device's camera then acts like a magic window allowing kids to walk around and explore the animal from all sides. Kids can also pose with and take pictures of their friends with the animals! This mind-boggling app helps create highly-engaging and magical learning experiences. Kids can learn about upper and lowercase letters as well as animal habitats from around the world. Great for early readers and STEM programs in Pre-K and Kindergarten classrooms. As a bonus, you can watch our Zoo Crew Alphabet Music Video by scanning the logo in the center of your Classroom Rug. This 5-minute, entertaining and educational song introduces each of the 26 animals one-by-one as well as the alphabet letters in upper and lowercase. Rugs alive™ requires the purchase of one of our Classroom Rugs, which can be purchased at www.RugsAlive.com.
Elevate Your Classroom
Access educational videos and receive timely updates through push notifications. Save favorite content for easy retrieval and enjoy a streamlined experience without needing to remember passwords.
- Access all videos in one app
- Push notifications for news
- Password-free video access
- Save favorite posts
- Easy to use interface
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Inside the Elevate Your Classroom app, you can: Access all of your videos in one easy to use app Receive push notifications with the latest news and updates Access to all of your videos without having to remember your password Save your favorite posts so you can quickly find them later END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rugs alive at 5.0 against Elevate Your Classroom's 3.7. Rugs alive also leads on iOS requirement (8.1 vs 16.6). Elevate Your Classroom's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 10 months). 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.
Rugs alive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Rugs alive ships an update every 10 months, Elevate Your Classroom every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rugs alive | Elevate Your Classroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alive Studios, LLC | Elevate Your Classroom, LLC |
Customer experience
Rugs alive
Elevate Your Classroom
In-app purchases
Rugs alive
No in-app purchases
Elevate Your Classroom
No in-app purchases
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