Jamf School Student vs Owlet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jamf School Student
This app provides students with tools to manage their educational devices. Students can install approved apps and documents, communicate with teachers, and perform device management tasks like updating software.
- Install pre-approved apps, iBooks, and documents
- Communicate with teachers via Messages
- Update apps and iOS
- Perform simple device management tasks
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Jamf School Student gives students with the tools to enhance their educational experience. Using the intuitive interface, students can install pre-approved apps, iBooks, and documents on their device and ask their teachers questions with Messages. Jamf School Student also empowers students by allowing them to perform simple management tasks like update apps, iOS, and more. Key features: - Install pre-approved apps, iBooks, and documents - Ask teachers questions with Messages - Allow students to update apps, iOS, and more.
Owlet
This app uses a physical manipulative to teach arithmetic operations. Students model addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using colored lights on a board, with the app reflecting their work in real-time. It offers various modes for exploration, problem-solving, and creation.
- Model arithmetic operations with colored lights
- Real-time app and board synchronization
- Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division modes
- Explore, Make, Solve, Find, and Create activities
- Supports missing number problems
- Create custom arithmetic problems
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Owlet: GlowGrid is one of a series of apps that use the Owlet GlowBoard manipulative. The specific focus of GlowGrid is using the GlowBoard to understand arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction. Students turn the dials on the GlowBoard to model arithmetic operations with the colored lights. The GlowGrid app communicates in real time with the GlowBoard, so the app reflects student work with the GlowBoard. GlowGrid has five modes for five arithmetic operations: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, and Division with Remainders. Each operation has five different activities. - Explore: Students turn the dials to model arithmetic equations on the GlowBoard. The tablet shows the students the equation that they are modeling. - Make: The app challenges students to use the operation to make a target number in different ways, i.e. Make 11 in 9 different ways. - Solve: The app challenges students to solve arithmetic problems with the GlowBoard. - Find: The app challenges students to solve missing number problems with the GlowBoard. - Create: Students can create their own problem and use the GlowBoard to demonstrate the solution.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Owlet at 5.0 against Jamf School Student's 1.8. Owlet also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). Jamf School Student's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). 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.
Owlet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jamf School Student has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Jamf School Student ships an update every 3 weeks, Owlet every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.
| Parameter | Jamf School Student | Owlet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JAMF Software | BirdBrain Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Jamf School Student
Owlet
In-app purchases
Jamf School Student
No in-app purchases
Owlet
No in-app purchases
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