Running Recs vs Brainworks school
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Running Recs
This app helps educators quickly calculate reading assessment scores. Input word count, errors, and self-corrections to get error rates, percentages, and text difficulty levels. It's designed for teachers monitoring student reading progress.
- Calculate error rate
- Calculate percentage rate
- Calculate self-correction rate
- Determine text difficulty (easy, instructional, hard)
- Input words read, errors, self-corrections
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Running Recs is an easy way for teachers to check the results for a running record test of reading. Simply enter the number of words read, number of errors and the number of self corrections. Running Recs will then feedback to you the error rate, percentage rate, self correction rate, and whether the text read is 'easy', 'instructional' or 'hard'. Great for all classroom teachers who use Running Records to monitor student reading processes and achievement!
Brainworks school
This app connects parents with their child's school, offering access to academic progress, fee information, and financial data. It facilitates seamless communication and monitoring of student performance.
- Access parent profiles
- View fee and financial data
- Monitor academic progress
- Connect with the school
- Access library data
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Brainworks-Total Grp of School This app provides an interface for the parents to connect with the school and give them luxury to access their profile, fee, financial, library & academic data on their tips. It helps connecting parents with the schools in a seamless way and help them to monitor the academic progress of the children.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brainworks school at Free against Running Recs's $1.99. Brainworks school also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 63 months). Running Recs's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Brainworks school is free to download; Running Recs costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Brainworks school holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively.
Running Recs ships an update every 63 months, Brainworks school every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 25, 2026 and July 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Running Recs | Brainworks school |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (8 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 63 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Matthew Thomas | Rajesh Rana |
Customer experience
Running Recs
Brainworks school
In-app purchases
Running Recs
No in-app purchases
Brainworks school
No in-app purchases
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