CC Card Deck vs SWIS Suite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CC Card Deck
This app offers digital card decks for foundational reading skills instruction. It supports students in grades K-12, particularly those new to reading or struggling, to build confidence and fluency.
- Digital card decks
- Foundational skills instruction
- Supports SIPPS program
- Supports Being a Reader program
- K-12 reading support
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The Collaborative Classroom Card Deck App is a tool for teachers that provides digital card decks for foundational skills instruction in both the SIPPS and Being a Reader programs. SIPPS and Being a Reader support new and struggling readers in grades K–12 build skills and confidence for fluent, independent reading.
SWIS Suite
This app allows educators to submit student behavior referrals directly from their mobile devices. It supports documenting all aspects of an incident, managing workflows, and syncing data seamlessly with the desktop version for data-based decision making.
- Submit student behavior referrals on-the-go
- Document incident details comprehensively
- Save referrals as drafts or complete
- Seamless data sync with desktop app
- Manage pending, draft, and assigned referrals
- Paperless referral workflows
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SWIS Mobile is your app to enter referrals on-the-go wherever student behavior happens. Send a referral for review, save it as a draft to finish when you have more time, or save it as complete and move on with your day. Every referral entered in SWIS Mobile seamlessly flows into your SWIS desktop app for decision making. To access the SWIS Suite mobile app your school must be using the SWIS Suite for data-based decision making. In the app: • Document behaviors you manage in the classroom and behaviors you send to the office. • Document every part of an incident including: student, date, time, behavior, location, motivation, others involved, action taken, notes, custom fields, and more. • Enable referral workflows and take your process fully paperless. • Review pending, draft, and assigned referrals in Referral Management. • Set personal defaults for referral entry to make things more efficient. • Quickly look up previous referrals with search filters built into the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CC Card Deck at every 4 days against SWIS Suite's every 2 months. CC Card Deck also leads on ratings volume (243 vs 5). SWIS Suite's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and device support (3 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.
SWIS Suite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CC Card Deck has 243 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CC Card Deck ships an update every 4 days, SWIS Suite every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CC Card Deck | SWIS Suite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (243 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 243 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Center for the Collaborative Classroom | University of Oregon Digital Press |
Customer experience
CC Card Deck
SWIS Suite
In-app purchases
CC Card Deck
No in-app purchases
SWIS Suite
No in-app purchases
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