Securly Flex vs Metea Media
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Securly Flex
This app helps schools implement flexible learning periods to enhance student engagement and personalized education. It simplifies the logistical challenges of scheduling, rostering, and managing student choices for these periods, offering more instructional time and diverse learning opportunities.
- Add flex periods to school schedules
- Personalized learning opportunities
- Agenda notifications
- Capacity management
- Rostering
- Teacher customization of offerings
- Student voice and choice
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Get more hours out of your school day. Securly Flex (formerly known as FlexTime Manager) lets you get more out of the instructional time in each school day by making it easy to add flex periods to your school schedule. Flex periods can help students gain more instructional time during the school day and create opportunities for personalized learning. While many schools see the value in offering flex periods to their students, implementing them can be a logistical nightmare. Securly Flex is a scheduling tool designed specifically to solve these problems. With Securly Flex, every aspect of flex period implementation—including agenda notifications, capacity management, rostering, and more—is made so much easier. Teachers can easily customize flex period offerings, and students gain voice and choice in their education. Provide more than a typical school experience. Teachers offer, students choose. With Securly Flex, you can: • Combat learning loss by providing more opportunities for individualized support • Give students time to develop their unique talents with personalized learning • Support social and emotional development with more relaxing offerings, mindfulness activities, or counselor availability • Prepare students for college and careers by providing opportunities to manage time and develop independence Experience the benefits without the hassle. Reap the rewards of flex periods with none of the typical scheduling and record-keeping headaches. It's easy with Flex.
Metea Media
Stay informed about events at Metea Valley High School. This app serves as the digital hub for student journalism, featuring content from the school's newspaper, yearbook, and broadcast programs. Get your daily dose of school news and stories.
- School news updates
- Student journalism content
- Newspaper articles
- Yearbook features
- Broadcast stories
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Be in the know about what's going on around Metea Valley High School. Metea Media is the online home of MV's student journalism programs: The Stampede newspaper, The Rein yearbook, and The Mane broadcast. Your world. Your stories. Every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Metea Media at 67% against Securly Flex's 10%. Metea Media also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.2). Securly Flex's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 8) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, 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.
Metea Media holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Securly Flex has 1.1K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Securly Flex's written reviews are positive against 67% of Metea Media's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Securly Flex | Metea Media |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.2 (1.1K ratings) | 4.5 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Securly | Indian Prairie Community Unit School District |
Customer experience
Securly Flex
Metea Media
Bugs and requests
Securly Flex
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues
- Incorrect schedule information
- Compatibility problems with devices
Requested features
3 requests- More flexibility in scheduling
- Improved notification system
- Better integration with school systems
Metea Media
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Securly Flex
No in-app purchases
Metea Media
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Securly Flex free?
Is Metea Media free?
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