Ready vs SmartTeach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ready
This app provides Head Start and Early Head Start educators with resources to support dual language learners. It offers tips for classroom setup, survival words in seven languages, and videos of effective teaching practices. Teachers can earn badges by completing weekly activities.
- Access DLL resources
- Build language experiences
- Implement teaching strategies
- Earn weekly badges
- Classroom setup tips
- Survival words in seven languages
- Videos of teaching practices
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Ready-DLL is a mobile solution for Head Start and Early Head Start teachers and caregivers who want to access information, build rich language experiences, and implement strategies to support children who are dual language learners (DLLs). Using Ready-DLL, teachers can earn badges each week by completing different activities. Discover tips for setting up classrooms and learn survival words and phrases in seven languages to support children with diverse home languages. The app provides on-the-go access to DLL resources and videos showcasing effective teaching practices.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
Ready and SmartTeach both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Ready's written reviews are positive against 24% of SmartTeach's. Ready also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). SmartTeach's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 8). On price, rating, 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.
SmartTeach holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartTeach has 1.2K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Ready's written reviews are positive against 24% of SmartTeach's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ready ships an update every 17 months, SmartTeach monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ready | SmartTeach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 24.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Office of Head Start | Teaching Strategies, Inc. |
Customer experience
Ready
SmartTeach
Bugs and requests
Ready
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
Ready
No in-app purchases
SmartTeach
No in-app purchases
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