Comparison

Stars 2 Apples vs Course Creator Pro

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

Head to head
About

Stars 2 Apples

This app assists online ESL educators in managing their classes and student progress. It offers tools for creating and assigning custom rewards and visual props to enhance student engagement and learning.

Highlights
  • Create custom rewards
  • Create custom props
  • Student reward tracking
  • Student interest tracking
  • Class scheduling
  • Reward and prop assignment
Features
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Stars 2 Apples helps online ESL teachers stay organized and helps engage students with exciting rewards and props. REWARDS Motivate your students by rewarding them with fun rewards right from your phone or tablet. You can easily create your own rewards within the app and share them with others. PROPS Help your students learn new concepts with pictures. You can easily create your own props and organize them your own way. KEEP A SCHEDULE Prepare for your classes by selecting what reward and props you want to use for each of your upcoming classes. ADD STUDENTS Add your students to the app to keep track of what rewards you use for them and any interests they have. Permission Notice: Camera: Needed to allow the user to take photos for making rewards and props. Photos: Needed to allow the ​user to use photos for making rewards and props.

About

Course Creator Pro

Learn to build, market, and sell online courses with a comprehensive guide. Discover how to validate ideas, find profitable niches, and grow your audience. Covers curriculum structuring, content creation, launch strategies, advertising, and social media.

Highlights
  • Validate course ideas
  • Identify profitable niches
  • Build an email list
  • Structure course curriculum
  • Film and edit course content
  • Launch and market courses
  • Run paid advertising campaigns
Features
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The Ultimate Online Course to Build, Market, and Sell Online Courses. The step by step guide to how we have sold multiple 8 figures in courses online. Teaching you how to validate your course idea, pick a profitable niche, build an email list, structure your course curriculum, film and edit your course, launch your course, run paid ads, build a social media following, and much more.

Screenshots

Stars 2 Apples4 screens
Course Creator Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Course Creator Pro at Free against Stars 2 Apples's $3.99. Course Creator Pro also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Stars 2 Apples's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (196 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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

Course Creator Pro is free to download; Stars 2 Apples costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stars 2 Apples holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stars 2 Apples has 196 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stars 2 Apples ships an update every 2 weeks, Course Creator Pro every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Stars 2 Apples versus Course Creator Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStars 2 ApplesCourse Creator Pro
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (196 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews78.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings196 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIan ClawsonCourse Creator Pro, Inc.

Customer experience

Stars 2 Apples

All ratings196 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral3.1%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive78.7%
Neutral11.5%
Negative9.8%

Course Creator Pro

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Stars 2 Apples

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Find-a-star games not working
  • Rewards not showing up
  • Emoji FAS not loading
  • Stuff disappears (weather props)
  • Lost personally created rewards and props after software update or phone upgrade
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  • Icons disappeared after reinstallation
  • Categories from Props auto-filled into Rewards and vice versa
  • Cannot delete empty categories
  • Find a star won't load (blank white screen)
  • App freezes
  • App shuts down in the middle of teaching

Requested features

30 requests
  • Allow users to relocate things (props, folders)
  • Add more games and props
  • Allow users to add their own categories
  • Show rewards on every date used in student info
  • Allow creation of new Find a Star games
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  • Sync schedule directly to VIPKID app
  • Add more food options
  • Easy way to upload multiple props at once
  • Sync across all devices
  • Sync Google Calendar
  • Add more rewards/props for older kids
  • Add superhero rewards
  • Add princess or Hello Kitty rewards
  • Add more diversity (skin color options)
  • Interactive feature to draw on props (whiteboard)
  • Larger whiteboard
  • Add reptiles, mammals, and bird categories
  • Menu bar hides when using rewards
  • App flips to opposite side of iPad
  • Add school theme
  • Add weather theme
  • Add reward with people dressed for weather/season
  • Add landscape mode for homepage
  • Add tutorials on how to add more rewards
  • Star pop effect for Tic-tac-toe wins
  • Bigger letters for Tic-tac-toe
  • Save profile to sync schedule and rewards on multiple devices
  • Option to name class
  • Add notes about students
  • Add body parts category

Course Creator Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stars 2 Apples

No in-app purchases

None

Course Creator Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stars 2 Apples free?
Stars 2 Apples costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Course Creator Pro free?
Course Creator Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stars 2 Apples or Course Creator Pro?
Stars 2 Apples is rated higher. Stars 2 Apples averages 4.7 out of 5 from 196 ratings, while Course Creator Pro averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Stars 2 Apples or Course Creator Pro have ads?
Neither Stars 2 Apples nor Course Creator Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stars 2 Apples or Course Creator Pro?
Stars 2 Apples ships an update every 2 weeks, and Course Creator Pro every 6 weeks. Most recently, Stars 2 Apples was updated on November 2, 2026 and Course Creator Pro on November 4, 2026.

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