BrainPOP vs Student Check In
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BrainPOP
This app offers award-winning animated educational videos, interactive activities, and quizzes designed by educators. It aims to transform passive screen time into active, enriched learning experiences for children in grades 3-8 across all subjects.
- Animated educational movies
- Interactive activities
- Quizzes
- Content for grades 3-8
- All subjects covered
- Research-backed learning platform
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Access BrainPOP’s award-winning animated movies, activities and quizzes made by educators and replace your kids’ passive screen time with active, enriched learning. Start your free trial today to access content for grades 3-8 across all subjects. BrainPOP is a research-backed learning platform created by educators that know how kids learn best, and perfect for age-appropriate, independent learning. Start watching, learning, playing and growing with us! Terms of Use: https://www.brainpop.com/about/terms_of_use/ Privacy Policy: https://www.brainpop.com/about/privacy_policy/ User Agreement: https://www.brainpop.com/about/user_agreement/
Student Check In
This app streamlines the check-in process for educational institutions, replacing paper sign-in sheets with an electronic system. It automatically documents, sorts, and time-stamps arrivals, sending student information to staff desktops for quick acknowledgment and response.
- Electronic sign-in replacement
- Automatic documentation and time-stamping
- Student information sent to staff desktops
- Optional staff notification via text
- Reduces wait times
- Improves customer service
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Student Check In is a simple and fast replacement for the paper sign in sheet. Designed for Admissions, Registration, clinics and Counseling offices, this app improves your customer service by automatically documenting, sorting and time stamping each person as they arrive. The students and/or visitors sign in with their name, phone number, company name and select a reason for their visit. The information is then sent to each desktop in a check list format to allow staff to acknowledge and respond to the students quickly. Optionally, the system can send a text message to a staff member, notifying them someone is waiting. This app is a mobile add-on to allow the use of an Apple iPad for the kiosk portion of Student Check In. A paper sign-in sheet just isn’t enough to handle the volume of students and it’s hard to justify a person dedicated to greeting people upon arrival. Student Check In will alleviate the line and push the student information to each desktop. Staff now has an organized student list on their computer desktop. A typed name, time and reason for visit of each student are shown in an organized list. Each department or staff member can respond directly reducing wait times and improving customer service.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Student Check In at none against BrainPOP's 5. BrainPOP's advantage is ratings volume (34K vs 4) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, ads and iOS requirement 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. BrainPOP sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Student Check In asks for nothing beyond the download.
BrainPOP holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BrainPOP has 34K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of BrainPOP's written reviews are positive against 100% of Student Check In's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BrainPOP ships an update every 2 months, Student Check In every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BrainPOP | Student Check In |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (34K ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BrainPOP® | Check In Systems Inc |
Customer experience
BrainPOP
Student Check In
Bugs and requests
BrainPOP
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues
- Playback problems
- Syncing issues across devices
Requested features
5 requests- More topics and content
- Lower subscription cost
- Better organization of content
- More character diversity
- Support for older devices
Student Check In
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BrainPOP
- BrainPOP Explorer Subscription$3.991 Month
- BrainPOP Full Access14 Days trial$15.991 Month
- BrainPOP Combo Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
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- BrainPOP Full Access Yearly14 Days trial$129.991 Year
- BrainPOP Combo Yearly14 Days trial$159.991 Year
Student Check In
No in-app purchases
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