Comparison

iDoceo vs abalarPro

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

Head to head
About

iDoceo

This app serves as a comprehensive digital assistant for educators, offering tools for gradekeeping, lesson planning, student management, and resource organization. It allows for detailed record-keeping, custom reporting, and offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Gradebook with custom calculations
  • Lesson planner with week/day views
  • Student attendance tracking
  • Seating plan generator
  • Resource manager for files and links
  • Handwritten notes and drawings
  • Configurable PDF/XLS/TXT reports
Features
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iDoceo is a powerful assistant for teachers. You can add an unlimited number of students and classes. iDoceo is paid only once and you get the full app and its updates. There are no additional subscriptions or in app purchases. iDoceo respects your privacy and confidentiality. Works completely offline. No internet connection required. All your data is stored locally in your iPad, unless you enable the synchronization options. An all-in-one tool for teachers that consists of: - Fully fledged gradebook for teachers, with custom calculations, attendance and can be linked to Google Classroom,Moodle, MSTeams - Lesson planner: Week/Day views - Diary: Day/Week/Month/Timeline views of a single classroom - Teacher Timetable - Seating plans - Resource manager that will help you keep track of PDFs, audio,files,links,images,etc. - Notepads with handwritten notes, drawings and timestamped text - Configurable reports in PDF, XLS and TXT Below the list of its main features. More details at www.idoceo.net • TEACHER PLANNER, DIARY AND SCHEDULE - Configure simple week schedules or complex rotating cycles with holidays. Unlimited combinations for each term - Individual diary for each classroom. Single day view, week, month and timeline. Add&Edit iCal events - Timeline view with all your lessons on sight. Bump, lock and yank lessons. - Add files from any source, video, audio, handwritten notes, links and resources to your lesson plans. - Create PDF/XLS reports of your planner and diary. • TEACHER GRADEBOOK - Use rubrics, categories, icons, colors, text or number based grades. You can configure your own grading system - Evidence tracking features. Take pictures, record video and audio and attach it to any cell and student. - Calculate simple weighted averages, additions or create your own Excel like formulas with conditions and complex functions. - Add unlimited columns, folders, rows and pages to organize your information - Use configurable editors on each column for ultrafast edition and adapt the gradebook to your needs - Send personalized e-mail reports to your students with their grades, annotations or files - Filter information of students or groups on screen - Share your gradebook configurations with other users - Import your current data from any XLS, CSV or iDoceo template file - Import your students photos from a single image with face detection or in bulk with separate files - Export everything to native PDF, XLS or CSV • SEATING PLANS - Add columns and edit your data as if you were in the gradebook. - Up to ten seating plans per classroom with five different modes and backgrounds - Random group generator and picker. • TO-DOs, TEXT AND HANDWRITTEN NOTES - Create unlimited standalone notepads or linked to a classroom. Configurable sheets - Full PDF report of your notepads. - To-dos with alarm events - Timestamped text notes for meetings, linked to a class or a student • RESOURCE MANAGER - Record audio and video, add handwritten notes, signatures, files ,images, links, add text or annotations anywhere: gradebook cells, students, classroom, diary, planner. - Full PDF reader with bookmarks and thumbnails - Play Keynote presentations, view XLS files, audio and videos. • SYSTEM TOOLS - Multiple backup options: Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud or your own WebDAV server. - Works in landscape, portrait and full screen mode (gradebook) - Password protect your contents - Random picker and spinning wheel on summary,gradebook and seating plan - Class’ summary with configurable widgets. - Bulletin board with resources and notes. - Recycle bin with recently erased students, columns and classes Thanks for all your support and great comments in the App store! Visit our website's forum at www.idoceo.net or send us an e-mail from the app > Help > Support&Suggestions if you have any questions or suggestions for our next updates.

About

abalarPro

This app facilitates communication between teachers and families in educational centers. It allows for easy sending of individual messages, group messages, and creation of chat rooms for convenient interaction.

Highlights
  • Teacher-family messaging
  • Individual messages
  • Group messages
  • Chat room creation
  • Educational center communication
Features
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[GL] A aplicación abalarPro e unha aplicación da Xunta de Galicia que permite a interacción dos docentes de centros educativos pertencentes a Consellería de Educación coas familias a través de mensaxería, posibilitando unha forma fácil e cómoda para enviar mensaxes individuais, a grupos ou coa creación de salas de chat. [ES] La aplicación abalarPro es una aplicación de la Xunta de Galicia que permite la interacción de los docentes de centros educativos pertenecientes a la Consellería de Educación con las familias a través de mensajería, posibilitando una forma fácil y cómoda para enviar mensajes individuales, a grupos o con la creación de salas de chat.

Screenshots

iDoceo4 screens
abalarPro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: iDoceo at 88% against abalarPro's 0%. iDoceo also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). abalarPro's advantage is price (Free vs $19.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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

abalarPro is free to download; iDoceo costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iDoceo ships an update fortnightly, abalarPro every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iDoceo versus abalarPro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriDoceoabalarPro
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiDoceo Studios Ltd.Xunta de Galicia

Customer experience

iDoceo

All ratings1,405 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews406 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative8.1%

abalarPro

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

iDoceo

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Grades not calculating correctly
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Inability to import/edit class rosters

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to copy/transfer student data between classes
  • More lesson planning/template features
  • Improved attendance/daily schedule features
  • Easier class/roster management
  • Web/desktop companion app

abalarPro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iDoceo

No in-app purchases

None

abalarPro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iDoceo free?
iDoceo costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is abalarPro free?
abalarPro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iDoceo or abalarPro have ads?
Neither iDoceo nor abalarPro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iDoceo or abalarPro?
iDoceo ships an update fortnightly, and abalarPro every 2 months. Most recently, iDoceo was updated on November 1, 2026 and abalarPro on October 24, 2026.

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