Positive Discipline vs JaxLibrary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Positive Discipline
Offers parenting tools that teach children valuable life skills like self-discipline and responsibility without punishment or rewards. Focuses on fostering intrinsic motivation for children to become self-reliant and successful.
- Alternatives to punishment
- Teaches social and life skills
- Fosters self-discipline and responsibility
- Promotes intrinsic motivation
- Meets Five Criteria for Positive Discipline
- Develops self-reliance and capability
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These Positive Discipline Parenting Tools provide many alternatives to punishment that also teach children valuable social and life skills such as self-discipline, responsibility, cooperation, and problem-solving skills. These skills help children develop a sense of self-reliance and capability that will serve them throughout their lives. You’ll notice that none of these tools include any kind of punishment, rewards, or praise (all extrinsic motivators that research keeps showing over and over again do not work). These are tools that provide intrinsic motivation to develop self-reliant children that become happy, successful, contributing members of society. Every tool meets all of the Five Criteria for Positive Discipline: 1. Helps children feel a sense of connection? (Belonging and Significance) 2. Is kind and firm at the same time (Respectful and Encouraging) 3. Is effective long-term, (See the following two criteria) 4. Teaches valuable social and life skills for good character? (Respect, concern for others, problem-solving, cooperation) 5. Invites children to discover how capable they are? (Encourages the constructive use of personal power and autonomy) For more information or customer service, please go to our contact information at www.positivediscipline.com where you will also find other Positive Discipline products.
JaxLibrary
Manage your Jacksonville Public Library account on your mobile device. Search the library's catalog, renew borrowed items, and place holds on books and other materials.
- Manage library account
- Search catalog
- Renew books
- Place holds
- Mobile access
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Access Jacksonville Public Library from your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Manage your account, search the catalogue, renew and reserve books.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Positive Discipline at 80% against JaxLibrary's 13%. Positive Discipline also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). JaxLibrary's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 9 months). On 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
JaxLibrary is free to download; Positive Discipline costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Positive Discipline holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 35 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Positive Discipline's written reviews are positive against 13% of JaxLibrary's.
Positive Discipline ships an update every 9 months, JaxLibrary every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Positive Discipline | JaxLibrary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better | 4.0 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Positive Discipline | City of Jacksonville, FL |
Customer experience
Positive Discipline
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In-app purchases
Positive Discipline
No in-app purchases
JaxLibrary
No in-app purchases
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