SmartFind Express vs Rugs alive™ Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartFind Express
This mobile application helps substitute teachers manage their schedules and find available jobs. It offers features for tracking assignments and viewing important details. The app aims to streamline the process of substitute teaching.
- Job discovery for substitutes
- Schedule management
- Assignment tracking
- Convenient for substitute teachers
- Quick and easy to use
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This is the SmartFind Express Mobile App for substitutes.
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 SmartFind Express's 19%. Rugs alive™ Plus also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 4 weeks). SmartFind Express's advantage is ratings volume (15K 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 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartFind Express has 15K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 19% of SmartFind Express's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rugs alive™ Plus's.
SmartFind Express ships an update every 4 weeks, Rugs alive™ Plus every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartFind Express | Rugs alive™ Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (15K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 18.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 326 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PowerSchool Group LLC | Alive Studios, LLC |
Customer experience
SmartFind Express
Rugs alive™ Plus
Bugs and requests
SmartFind Express
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login process frequently fails
- Job listings not updating in real-time
- Issues with checking in/out of assignments
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to sort/filter by date range
- Integrate with calendar apps for better scheduling
- Provide more detailed job information (grade level, subject, etc.)
- Improve reliability and stability of the app
Rugs alive™ Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SmartFind Express
No in-app purchases
Rugs alive™ Plus
No in-app purchases
Questions
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