Comparison

Jamf School Student vs classroom.cloud Student

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Install pre-approved apps, iBooks, and documents
  • Communicate with teachers via Messages
  • Update apps and iOS
  • Perform simple device management tasks
Features
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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.

About

classroom.cloud Student

This student browser app facilitates classroom management and online safety for educational institutions. It allows teachers to monitor student activity, broadcast lessons, and manage devices remotely, while IT staff can oversee hardware and software.

Highlights
  • Real-time student monitoring
  • Screen broadcasting
  • Device management
  • Online safety tools
  • Approved/restricted website lists
  • Instant notifications
  • Private student chat
Features
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Designed for use within schools and other educational institutions, this Student browser app for iOS is for use with classroom.cloud, the easy breezy, low-cost, cloud-based IT management, online safety and teaching platform for schools. classroom.cloud is a teacher’s dream come true. Incredibly easy to use, it provides a range of teaching tools that can flex to any learning environment – both in school and with remote learners. From real-time instruction and assessment tools, to boosting collaboration and support, as well as helping manage online behavior – it has it all! With the optional online safety toolkit, selected staff can monitor online activity, identify students at risk, and spot concerning trends. And, with its range of IT management tools, school techs can manage teacher and student devices centrally, as well as see at a glance how your technology is being used and how to maximize it – saving you a bunch of time and money! Once your school has registered online with classroom.cloud, the app can be easily deployed by the IT team to student iPads (iOS 14 and above), enabling teachers to connect instantly and securely to the devices from the cloud-based Teacher console and allowing school techs to deliver instant remote support and device management. The classroom.cloud student app can be set as the default browser on devices and offers support for Entra ID and Google authentication, allowing you to force students to sign-in to the app with Microsoft or Google credentials if applicable. Teacher Tools: • Choice of flexible connection methods – connect to a pre-defined group of student devices, a specified list of device or student names, or on the fly using a Class Code. • Easily monitor students’ internet use via crystal-clear thumbnails. Zoom in using Watch/View Mode to take a closer look at activity on a single student device. • Broadcast the teacher’s screen and audio to connected student devices to help show/talk them through explanations and lesson activities. • Lock students’ screens in a single click to gain attention. • Present students with the lesson objectives and their expected learning outcomes. • Chat, send a message, and support your students via help requests – without their peers knowing. • Get a feel for students’ understanding of the topic you have just taught them by sending out a quick survey for them to respond to. • See details of the websites that students are currently viewing to check they are focused on the task at hand. • Restrict internet use by employing ‘approved’ and ‘restricted’ website lists during the lesson. • Save yourself a heap of time by launching a website on the students’ devices. • Recognize good work or behaviour by assigning Rewards to students during the lesson. Admin/Technician Tools: • Retrieve a real-time view of the hardware and software installed on each student device. • Monitor internet usage. • Send instant notifications to student iPads. • Send Acceptable Use Policies (AUPs) to student iPads and track acknowledgements in the Web Portal. Online Safety Tools: • Keyword monitoring - alerts nominated staff when students type or search for any terms that match with those in the classroom.cloud keyword database – providing internet safety indicators for self-harm, bullying, sexual and criminal exploitation, and much more. Language packs are included to ensure your school can monitor concerning activity in students’ first languages. • Report a concern - students who feel vulnerable can use the app to 'report concerns' directly and discreetly to the online safety team. • Online resources - gives students instant access to a list of relevant online agencies should they want to seek external help with a particular problem or concern. The innovation behind classroom.cloud comes from NetSupport, the trusted developer of effective classroom management tools for schools for more than 35 years.

Screenshots

Jamf School Student4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: classroom.cloud Student at 4.0 against Jamf School Student's 1.8. classroom.cloud Student also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). Jamf School Student's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

classroom.cloud Student holds the better App Store score, 4.0 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. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of Jamf School Student's written reviews are positive against 13% of classroom.cloud Student's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Jamf School Student ships an update every 3 weeks, classroom.cloud Student every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Jamf School Student versus classroom.cloud Student: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJamf School Studentclassroom.cloud Student
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (5 ratings)4.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews8.9% of reviews12.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPad
Requires iOS17.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJAMF SoftwareNetSupport Ltd

Customer experience

Jamf School Student

All ratings5 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive8.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative91.1%

classroom.cloud Student

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive12.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.5%

In-app purchases

None

Jamf School Student

No in-app purchases

None

classroom.cloud Student

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Jamf School Student free?
Jamf School Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is classroom.cloud Student free?
classroom.cloud Student is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Jamf School Student or classroom.cloud Student?
classroom.cloud Student is rated higher. Jamf School Student averages 1.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while classroom.cloud Student averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Jamf School Student or classroom.cloud Student have ads?
Neither Jamf School Student nor classroom.cloud Student shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Jamf School Student or classroom.cloud Student?
Jamf School Student ships an update every 3 weeks, and classroom.cloud Student every 2 months. Most recently, Jamf School Student was updated on October 29, 2026 and classroom.cloud Student on November 3, 2026.

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