Classroom Mosaic vs Teachers.io
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classroom Mosaic
This platform streamlines classroom observations, teacher evaluations, and professional development. It helps instructional leaders gather actionable insights from observation data to monitor educator growth and foster targeted development.
- Classroom observations with rubrics and photos
- Automated data saving and feedback delivery
- Teacher evaluation management
- Progress tracking and trend identification
- Actionable insights from observation data
- Professional development planning
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Classroom Mosaic is the leading platform for classroom observations, walkthroughs, learning walks, teacher evaluations, and more. Join 30,000+ educators. The Classroom Mosaic Platform helps instruction leaders improve instructional practice by transforming observation data into actionable insights for monitoring educator growth and targeted professional development. With Classroom Mosaic, you can: - Accelerate Educator Growth - Strengthen School Culture - Increase Teacher Retention WALKTHROUGHS & LEARNING WALKS & OBSERVATIONS Classroom observations are simple and effective in Classroom Mosaic. You can create forms with rubrics, scripting notes, photos, and more. During an observation, you can navigate your form quickly and your data saves automatically. After completing an observation, your feedback instantly goes to the teacher and they can start a dialogue with you right from their inbox. Then you can use the dashboards and reports to identify trends, spot strengths and weaknesses, and understand instructional practice by combining all observations from your school or district. TEACHER EVALUATION The Classroom Mosaic platform makes teacher evaluation straightforward and efficient. All tasks, documents, and forms are in one spot for each of your evaluations. Along the way, helpful reminders are automatically sent to you and your teachers to complete items on time. You can easily stay on top of what you need to do and even add eSignatures when the time comes. With our evaluation tools, you can focus on coaching and don’t have to worry about compliance. REPORTING The dashboards and reports transform your data into something you can understand and use. All data captured is automatically aggregated and reported based on your forms. You can drill deep into your observation data to understand trends, identify strengths and weaknesses, and implement continuous improvement practices. ABOUT US We build helpful tools for instructional leaders. Our goal is to make you more efficient and effective. Over the last decade, our platform has helped tens of thousands of educators capture over 5 million minutes of instructional time. We’ve worked with individual schools to districts with more than 100,000 students. Sign up for a demo to learn more.
Teachers.io
This app helps educators plan lessons, organize class materials, and share information with students. It allows for offline access and automatically updates a personal teacher website. Streamline your teaching workflow and keep students informed.
- Organize classes and syllabus
- Share assignments and announcements
- Upload files and links
- Offline access and syncing
- Automatic teacher website creation
- Shareable education profile
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Plan your schedule, organize your classes and share with students. - Simplest way to organize your classes In minutes, have your course up and running. Our teacher focused design is the easiest way to organize your syllabus, assignments, tests, lessons, and announcements. Upload files from popular file sharing apps and share links to quizzes, discussions, videos and more. - Share with students using the myHomework app Students using the myHomework app can easily access the syllabus, assignments, course schedule, and announcements. - Works Offline Don't worry about that terrible school network or sparse mobile coverage. Teachers.io will work great without network connectivity and sync up the next time it can. - Teachers.io Website All of the course and profile information automatically updates your website. Every teacher has a url at https://teachers.io for a mobile, desktop and tablet friendly website. - Save Time: Easy to share education profile and more With a simple link to your Teachers.io profile from your school website, your education history, announcements and classes can all be updated straight from the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Classroom Mosaic at 4.8 against Teachers.io's 3.7. Classroom Mosaic also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (89% vs 63%). Teachers.io's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.5). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Teachers.io sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Classroom Mosaic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Classroom Mosaic holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Classroom Mosaic has 135 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Classroom Mosaic's written reviews are positive against 63% of Teachers.io's.
Classroom Mosaic ships an update every 5 weeks, Teachers.io every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Classroom Mosaic | Teachers.io |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (135 ratings) — better | 3.7 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 63.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benty, LLC | instin, LLC |
Customer experience
Classroom Mosaic
Teachers.io
Bugs and requests
Classroom Mosaic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Teachers.io
Reported bugs
21 issues- App crashes every time trying to link/access Google Drive
- Randomly not showing certain assignments
- Cannot enter a date outside of the current month
- Lesson plans completely disappear and have to be redone
- No feedback from students on logged in status or completed work
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- Two week cycle calendar is awkward for holidays
- Timetable difficult for secondary teachers with two week cycle
- No way of knowing what students are using the app
- Does not let teacher know when students have completed assignments
- Lack of creating a private course
- Cannot limit who can see the course through partner app
- Assignment does not retain formatting into MyHomework
- Links in homework assignments don't show for students in MyHomework app
- Formatting doesn't show up in the description on MyHomework student app
- Notes for each lesson run together
- Approval process takes too long
- Requires location sharing for registration
- Assignments don't post to student planners fast enough
- Assignments occasionally do not post at all
- Cannot log in to app
- Email confirmation not received
Requested features
27 requests- Show assignment due dates on calendar
- Notifications chime or buzz and pop up on phone screen
- Calendar view for lessons
- Space for teacher notes
- Option to incorporate a grade book
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- Field trip template
- Notify when an assignment has been completed
- Ability to limit who can see the course
- Support for Arabic language
- Support for Spanish language
- Option to include Common Core standards
- Ability for students to notify teachers upon completion
- Private course option
- Dark mode option
- More interaction with students
- See which pupils have signed up/viewed assignments
- Submit assignments through the app
- Group lessons and assignments by unit
- Calendar view for lessons
- Notifications pop up on iPad screen
- Blog through a different platform than Twitter
- Assignment retention of formatting into MyHomework
- Links in homework assignments show in MyHomework
- Formatting shows in MyHomework description
- Notes for each lesson are not run together
- Faster approval process
- Home school version
In-app purchases
Classroom Mosaic
No in-app purchases
Teachers.io
- Ads-Free Account$4.99
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