Comparison

Team Shake vs Groups

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Team Shake

Effortlessly create random or balanced teams for any group activity. Easily import names, save lists, and share your generated teams via email or social media. Ideal for games, sports, or school projects.

Highlights
  • Create random or balanced teams
  • Balance teams by skill or gender
  • Import users from files
  • Share teams via email or Facebook
  • Save and load friend lists
  • Full iPad support
Features
Currently charting
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Team Shake provides a technological and environmentally friendly way to choose teams for board games, sporting events, tournaments, school projects or anytime groups are required. The newest release brings many new features including full iPad support, balancing teams based on skill or gender, importing users from a file, enabling video output, and sharing teams via facebook or email. Team Shake is the premier iOS App for creating teams. Instead of a hat and scraps of paper, the user enters his friends' names in his iPhone and gives it a shake. The screen will then display a random set of color-coded teams. These teams can immediately be used for game play or shared via facebook or email. The quick and easy selection of random (or balanced) teams eliminates fighting over who will be on which team. Innovative use of the iPhone shake gesture gives users the satisfying feeling of shaking a virtual hat without the trouble of carrying around an actual hat. Conventional buttons can also be used for those who would rather not shake their expensive hardware about.

 The app is designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind. Names can easily be entered with the onscreen keyboard, chosen from the user's contacts, or imported from a file. The email and facebook functions document the members of each individual team as well as preserving the team number and color assigned by the app. For repeated use of Team Shake, lists of friends can be easily saved and loaded later. The current list is also automatically saved so that if you exit the app, or even reboot the device, changes will not be lost. For teachers and others with large lists of people, Team Shake supports the ability to import teams from text or csv files. If you have any problems, feature requests, or comments please send an email to support@rhine-o.com. Features: * Create 1 to 64 random teams * Create completely random or balanced teams * Full iPad support * Eliminates fighting over choosing teams * Share / Save teams via email or Facebook * Teams can be chosen by the number of teams or by the size of teams. * Save lists of friends for later games * Import lists from email or spreadsheet * Export lists and options for use on another device * Satisfying feeling of shaking a “virtual” hat to create teams * Animated shaking hat * Entry of names via onscreen keyboard * Entry of names via iPhone contacts * Temporarily disable people who are absent * Set groups of people to always be on the same team * Set groups of people to always be on different teams * Set user strength to make more even teams (now supports fully balanced teams) * 5 users strengths level * Pick a single random person from the list of players * User strength indicator on the main screen (can be disabled in options) * Number of active players and total players is now displayed on the main screen * Video Out Support * Option to Sort Teams by Name * Option to balance male / female team members * "Equal Ability" option to create teams where all players have the same strength * Option to create separate male and female teams * Configurable Team Colors * Configurable Team Names * Print Support * Export Teams in CSV or XLS Format * Team Shake now supports simultaneously assigning players to multiple subteams and / or oppose teams at the same time. * Subteams / Oppose teams can now have customized names to make selection easier * Subteams / Oppose teams can now be enabled or disabled globally so that teams can be made quickly without subteams / oppose teams. In particular, Balance Teams Strengths will work when separate Male / Female teams are created. Yappler-Tags: Teams, Groups, Random, Hat, Entertainment, Games, Utilities

About

Groups

This app helps educators create balanced and effective student teams using an advanced algorithm. It offers features like gender balancing, exclusion of incompatible students, and random student selection to promote participation. Easily import student data and export group compositions for classroom use.

Highlights
  • Advanced team-building algorithm
  • Gender balancing for groups
  • Exclude incompatible student pairs
  • Random student picker
  • Export and print group compositions
  • Bulk import students
  • Cross-device sync via iCloud
Features
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Effortlessly organize your students into effective teams with Groups, promoting meaningful collaboration and building teamwork skills in the classroom. ADVANCED TEAM BUILDING Have certain students who don’t work well together? Simply list these pairs in the app and Groups will handle the rest, with its advanced team-building algorithm. BALANCE GENDERS Ensure each group has an even distribution of genders with the ”Balance Genders” option, promoting diversity and encouraging collaboration. EDIT GROUPS Need to fine tune the generated groups? Easily rearrange the result to achieve a perfect team composition. RANDOM STUDENT PICKER Encourage equal participation in the classroom with Groups’ random student picker. This makes sure everyone gets a chance to provide input, ensuring all voices are heard. EXPORT AND PRINT Easily create printable handouts, posters, or a PDF to share using five beautiful themes. BULK IMPORT Add students from Microsoft Excel workbooks, CSV files, or plain text lists. UNLIMITED CLASSES Enter all your students once, and then create as many groups as you need. You can even add an icon and color to each class to easily tell them apart. CROSS DEVICE SYNC Add your classes once, and use them across all your Apple devices with iCloud sync. ——————————————— Groups has helped tens of thousands of teachers sort their students into groups, fostering more positive learning environments for students worldwide. Privacy Policy: https://wttech.com.au/docs/groups/privacy-policy Terms & Conditions: https://wttech.com.au/docs/groups/eula

Screenshots

Team Shake4 screens
Groups4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Groups at Free against Team Shake's $1.99. Team Shake's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 146). On rating, review sentiment, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Groups is free to download; Team Shake costs $1.99 up front. Groups sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Team Shake asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Team Shake against 4.9 for Groups. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Team Shake has 1.6K ratings behind it against 146, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Team Shake's written reviews are positive against 90% of Groups's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Team Shake ships an update every 5 weeks, Groups every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Team Shake versus Groups: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeam ShakeGroups
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (1.6K ratings)4.9 (146 ratings)
Positive reviews86.3% of reviews90.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.6K — better146
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#95 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.4 — better17.4
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRhine-o Enterprises LLCWilliam Taylor

Customer experience

Team Shake

All ratings1,565 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive86.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative9.9%

Groups

All ratings146 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Bugs and requests

Team Shake

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Shake feature not working consistently
  • Issues with exporting or printing team lists
  • Incompatibility with certain devices or operating systems

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to save and reuse class lists across devices
  • Option to randomize the order of students within teams
  • More flexibility in team size and number of teams
  • Improved visual design and readability
  • Integration with other classroom management tools

Groups

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Team Shake

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Groups

Subscriptions2
  • Groups Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Groups Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time2
  • Color Themes$0.99
  • Groups Pro$39.99

Questions

Is Team Shake free?
Team Shake costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Groups free?
Groups is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Team Shake or Groups?
Team Shake and Groups are both rated 4.9 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1.6K and 146 ratings respectively.
Do Team Shake or Groups have ads?
Neither Team Shake nor Groups shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Team Shake or Groups?
Team Shake ships an update every 5 weeks, and Groups every 3 months. Most recently, Team Shake was updated on September 23, 2026 and Groups on September 17, 2026.

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