Comparison

iDoceo vs Teacher Aide (cloud)

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

Teacher Aide (cloud)

This app helps educators manage student attendance, grades, and seating charts across multiple semesters. It offers cloud synchronization for seamless device switching and provides tools to identify at-risk students and communicate with parents. Export data easily for integration with other systems.

Highlights
  • Cloud database for multi-device sync
  • Attendance and grade tracking
  • Seating chart creation
  • Identify at-risk students
  • Bulk email notifications
  • Google Classroom roster sync
  • CSV grade export
Features
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Designed by a teacher, for teachers! • Cloud database allows easy switching between iPhone, iPad and MacBook • Attendance, Grades, Seating Chart for up to 6 semesters with 10 classes each. • Variety of PDF reports • Identify students at-risk due to attendance or grades • Easily notify students, parents and advisors with bulk email. • Easily sync student roster from Google Classroom • Export grades in CSV format to use with other grading systems Teacher Aide (cloud) is designed for use by individual teachers or co teachers of the same class. The app stores data in the cloud, so the the teacher can easily switch between devices, such as an iPhone, iPad or MacBook. Try out the app for free for 1 month with one class and see if you find it useful. An easy to use attendance and grading interface makes record keeping in the digital classroom a simple process. Additional features teachers will find useful are the seating chart, progress report and identification of student at risk due to attendance or academic performance. An auto-renewable monthly subscription allows access for up to 10 or 20 classes in each semester, and multiple semesters are supported. Please email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com with any questions or suggestions. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms Autorenewable Subscription Details To access features after the 1 month free access, the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable monthly or annual subscription. This means the subscription automatically renews 24 hours before the end of the subscription date. Auto renewable subscriptions can be managed from the user iTunes account, and a link is provided in the subscription screen while in the app. All future updates are included with the auto renewable monthly subscription. The subscription may be cancelled for any future months, and the user will still have access to the data, only the additional features will be disabled. Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeacherAidePro

Screenshots

iDoceo4 screens
Teacher Aide (cloud)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Teacher Aide (cloud) at Free against iDoceo's $19.99. iDoceo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (1.4K vs 45). On rating, update cadence, 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

Teacher Aide (cloud) is free to download; iDoceo costs $19.99 up front. Teacher Aide (cloud) sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. iDoceo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for iDoceo against 4.8 for Teacher Aide (cloud). That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iDoceo has 1.4K ratings behind it against 45, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of iDoceo's written reviews are positive against 79% of Teacher Aide (cloud)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iDoceo ships an update every 2 weeks, Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iDoceo versus Teacher Aide (cloud): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriDoceoTeacher Aide (cloud)
Price$19.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (1.4K ratings)4.8 (45 ratings)
Positive reviews88.1% of reviews — better78.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1.4K — better45
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiDoceo Studios Ltd.Glen Botha

Customer experience

iDoceo

All ratings1,390 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews379 reviews
Positive88.1%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.4%

Teacher Aide (cloud)

All ratings45 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative21.4%

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

Teacher Aide (cloud)

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iDoceo

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Teacher Aide (cloud)

Subscriptions6
  • Standard (10 classes)$3.991 Month
  • Standard (20 classes)$6.991 Month
  • Premium (10 classes)$6.991 Month
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  • Premium (20 classes)$9.991 Month
  • Premium (10 classes)$69.991 Year
  • Premium (20 classes)$99.991 Year

Questions

Is iDoceo free?
iDoceo costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Teacher Aide (cloud) free?
Teacher Aide (cloud) is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iDoceo or Teacher Aide (cloud)?
iDoceo and Teacher Aide (cloud) are both rated 4.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1.4K and 45 ratings respectively.
Do iDoceo or Teacher Aide (cloud) have ads?
Neither iDoceo nor Teacher Aide (cloud) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iDoceo or Teacher Aide (cloud)?
iDoceo ships an update every 2 weeks, and Teacher Aide (cloud) weekly. Most recently, iDoceo was updated on September 23, 2026 and Teacher Aide (cloud) on September 7, 2026.

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