Comparison

Socrative Teacher vs Planboard

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

Head to head
About

Socrative Teacher

This app helps educators conduct real-time formative assessments, allowing them to quiz and grade students instantly from any device. It provides flexible assessment tools, automatic grading, and powerful reporting to identify learning gaps and engage students effectively.

Highlights
  • Real-time formative assessment
  • Create and share quizzes
  • Automatic grading
  • Virtual classroom rooms
  • Instant feedback and reporting
  • Cross-device compatibility
Features
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Socrative is the best classroom app for formative assessment, empowering teachers to quiz and grade at the speed of learning, from any device, in class or remotely. Simple and reliable, Socrative is trusted by millions of educators around the world to deliver effective assessments to learners at every level. With instant feedback, you can identify knowledge gaps, engage your students more effectively, and adjust teaching on-the-fly to close feedback loops faster. - Flexible & engaging assessment tools: quickly create, manage, share a library of activities, and send customized quizzes directly to students, all in one simple platform. - Easy-to-create virtual rooms: easily set up rostered rooms for classes or individual activities, and invite students with simple and secure login options. - Automatic grading: with real-time marking and result reporting, it’s never been easier to visualize student learning so you can engage your learners, quickly adapt lessons or revisit concepts in the moment, and spend less time grading assignments. - Powerful real-time reporting: download detailed student and question-level quiz reports to share with students or colleagues, and make communication a breeze with automatic distribution of quiz results to students. Socrative is available for download on all major digital devices, and for use on all major browsers. You can use Socrative on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. Socrative is 100% free for students to use, on all devices.

About

Planboard

This app helps educators create, edit, and organize lesson plans with curriculum standards and attachments. It features a beautiful timetable view and syncs across devices, allowing teachers to plan on the go and reduce prep time.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and share lesson plans
  • Organize timetable, subjects, and semesters
  • Manage curriculum standards
  • Add attachments to lesson plans
  • Syncs with web version
  • Easy setup
Features
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Plan lessons on the go in an easy-to-use editor with curriculum standards and attachments. Planboard organizes your lessons, subjects, and semesters in a beautiful timetable that is with you everywhere. Join over 250,000 teachers around the world who are already using Planboard to cut down their classroom prep time and spend more time with students! —————————————————————————————— FEATURES • 100% free for teachers! • Create, edit, and share lesson plans • Organize your timetable, subjects, and semesters • Manage curriculum standards • Take photos and add files to lesson plans • Syncs with Planboard on the web • Fast and easy to get set up WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING “A fantastic app that has transformed my lesson planning...I have dumped my old paper planner for good. This is an excellent app.” - benjro “I love this program! I can create my lessons in a jiffy- dare I say lesson planning is almost *fun* now?! I can even do lesson planning while on the go because the program now syncs with the app- SCORE! I love being able to be out and about and not have to be tied to my computer, but if I think of something for a lesson, I can just plug it right in!...And all of this awesomeness is on the FREE version. I love this software!!!” - Tater and her tots “I have been looking for a planning and attendance app for so long! This app is absolutely perfect, whether you’re using it on your iPad, iPhone or using the online site on your computer it works flawlessly! Thank you so much!” - Ethie56 “This app is exactly what I was looking for! I have tried many digital planning options and this is by far the best. Being able to change my planner easily on my iPad or computer makes it so easy to change plans and have them there ready to go...Great app!” - J.Lee.17 “So much better than planning in a paper based planner. I like being able to check my lessons or add to them as ideas occur to me using my phone on the go.” - KT28363838 “Will render you pencil & paper daybook obsolete. It is fantastic for your day to day planning and makes printing off a paper copy for a supply teacher super easy” - Mr.Esss “I have been using it for three years now and love the planning/assessment tools. My principal asked me to inform the rest of the staff about this program. It has helped me make my teaching more organized.” - Stolenfeather “I feel as though I would not be as organized without Chalk! And the fact that it’s free makes it even more amazing! As we know as teachers we spend a lot of our own money on supplies for our students and having a program this amazing for free means I can spend more on my students so thank you!” - btpuggy “I wish I had found Planboard years ago! It has changed my entire approach to planning lessons! I cannot recommend this app enough” - BryarsMom SUPPORT The Chalk Team can be reached anytime by email at support@chalk.com, or during the day by live chat to assist you with getting the most out of Planboard.

Screenshots

Socrative Teacher4 screens
Planboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Planboard at 4.7 against Socrative Teacher's 3.2. Planboard also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 29) and review sentiment (62% vs 50%). Socrative Teacher's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planboard holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planboard has 1.9K ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Socrative Teacher's written reviews are positive against 62% of Planboard's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, Planboard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Socrative Teacher versus Planboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocrative TeacherPlanboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (29 ratings)4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews62.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings291.9K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.011.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShowbie Inc.PowerSchool Group LLC

Customer experience

Socrative Teacher

All ratings29 ratings
Positive41.4%
Neutral24.1%
Negative34.5%
Written reviews104 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral20.2%
Negative29.8%

Planboard

All ratings1,863 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews187 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative31.6%

Bugs and requests

Socrative Teacher

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Planboard

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when adding classes
  • Scheduling issues with non-standard time slots
  • Inability to log in or create account
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Lesson plan data loss

Requested features

7 requests
  • Month view option
  • Unit planning view
  • Ability to add events/meetings
  • Google Calendar integration
  • Behavior tracking/logging
Show 2 more
  • More curriculum standard options
  • Offline access

In-app purchases

None

Socrative Teacher

No in-app purchases

None

Planboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Socrative Teacher free?
Socrative Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Planboard free?
Planboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Socrative Teacher or Planboard?
Planboard is rated higher. Socrative Teacher averages 3.2 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Planboard averages 4.7 from 1.9K ratings.
Do Socrative Teacher or Planboard have ads?
Neither Socrative Teacher nor Planboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Socrative Teacher or Planboard?
Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, and Planboard every 6 weeks. Most recently, Socrative Teacher was updated on August 21, 2026 and Planboard on September 19, 2026.

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