Comparison

Stage by Belkin vs Mosyle School

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

Head to head
About

Stage by Belkin

Transform your device into a smart camera and interactive whiteboard. Sketch over live video, add text and images, and record demos. Ideal for educators and presenters seeking engaging, cost-effective visual tools.

Highlights
  • Freehand sketching over live video
  • Insert pictures, shapes, and text
  • Picture-in-picture demos
  • Record videos and capture images
  • Wireless and wired presentation
  • Switchable backgrounds
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StageTM brings your ideas to life – anytime, anywhere. Create, collaborate, and demonstrate with Stage. Combine the convenience of your camera with the power of an interactive whiteboard to unleash these experiences: • Freehand sketch over live video or images - Create demo videos • Get creative - Insert pictures, shapes, text and labels • Demo everything brilliantly - Picture-in-picture features • Record videos or screen capture images - Save directly to your device photo library. *Video recording feature available as an in-app purchase or in the Stage Pro app (now available in the App Store for iPad or iPhone) • Dynamically present in real-time - Wirelessly using Airplay, or via a wired projector connection Make your demos and lessons fully interactive, collaborative, and engaging with Stage. HEAD OF THE CLASS • Record brilliant demo videos with picture-in-picture features (feature available as an in-app purchase) • Annotate, mark-up and save existing photos, images and documents • Easily switch backgrounds from live front/rear camera feed, whiteboard/blackboard canvas, or any picture from your photo library. • Pick up from where you left off when relaunching the app and save your sessions to create memorable presentations (feature available as an in-app purchase) • Save everything directly to your iPhone or iPad photo library for anywhere, anytime access EXTRA CREDIT Collaborative: Sharing ideas has never been easier. Stage’s live video and interactive tools let you showcase real-time problem solving, demos, and experimentation. Paired with Airplay, Stage makes wireless sharing quick and easy. Portable: Bring your ideas to life anytime, anywhere with Stage. Stage does not require a login or connection to the internet, so it’s ready to go wherever and whenever you are. Easy-to-use: Unlike interactive whiteboards, Stage requires no additional training. Users familiar with touchscreens will be able to use the app instantly and efficiently. Cost-efficient: More economical than secondary technology, such as interactive whiteboards and document cameras, Stage maintains the functionality of that same technology without the price tag and cost of integration. Meaningful: Purposeful integration of mobile devices in the classroom creates opportunity for effective and meaningful learning for students at every level. **50% VPP discount available for qualified Educational purchases through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program – http://www.apple.com/itunes/education** RAISE YOUR HAND For more information, visit us at www.belkin.com.

About

Mosyle School

This tool simplifies the management of Apple devices for educational institutions, enabling secure student device usage for learning. It offers robust classroom management features to minimize distractions and enhance student focus, while providing IT staff and teachers with shared control and real-time insights.

Highlights
  • Apple device deployment and configuration
  • Classroom distraction elimination
  • Student focus monitoring
  • Internet access regulation
  • App management and installation
  • Real-time device inventory and reports
  • Shared IT and teacher management
Features
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Mosyle School is an MDM solution designed exclusively for Education that streamlines the Apple device management process, simplifies iPad, Mac and Apple TV deployments for Schools and Districts, while ensuring students safely utilize devices for learning. It’s easy to set up, manage, and maintain, while being powerful enough to create the ideal learning environment for any School or District. THE BEST MDM SOLUTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF ALL OF APPLE’S PROGRAM AND OS FEATURES: - Configure all management settings with Mosyle School to harness all Apple’s education features and deployment programs; - Connect Mosyle School with Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Program Purchase to assign devices, apps, and configure device settings, apps, and books; - Get the most out of Apple’s Shared iPad and the Classroom App for iPad; UNIQUE & EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TOOLS: - Quickly eliminate any distractions from the devices; - Ensure student focus and attention is within the intended educational application; - Easily assess students during class to evaluate student progress; - Check compliance of student devices and solve any issues right in the classroom; - Customize and regulate student Internet access during class time; - Select apps allowed during class and remotely install them on student devices.
 AN ALWAYS-ON, CLOUD-BASED & SCALABLE SOLUTION TO SIMPLIFY DEPLOYMENTS: - Quickly take inventory and view reports of your device fleet in real time; - Shared management between IT Staff and Teachers; - Create time-based policies and restrictions – to work whether it’s before, during or after school; - Receive notifications when specific events occur across the managed device fleet; - Implement in any type of deployment model (BYOD, School Owned, 1:1 and Shared); - Rapid and easy device enrollment processes and flows; - Automatic load-balancing and fault tolerance across multiple Tier 3 data centers, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. 
 *Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Mosyle School is designed to embrace and fully integrate with Apple’s new education features, and deployment programs (Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Purchase Program). We're so excited with all the new possibilities we decided to include all necessary configuration with them in our basic, free plan. No hidden costs!

Screenshots

Mosyle School4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stage by Belkin at 4.4 against Mosyle School's 1.8. Stage by Belkin also leads on review sentiment (30% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.4). Mosyle School's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Stage by Belkin sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Mosyle School asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stage by Belkin holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 154 and 92 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Stage by Belkin's written reviews are positive against 13% of Mosyle School's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stage by Belkin ships an update every 4 months, Mosyle School every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Stage by Belkin versus Mosyle School: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStage by BelkinMosyle School
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (154 ratings) — better1.8 (92 ratings)
Positive reviews29.8% of reviews — better13.0% of reviews
Number of ratings154 — better92
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.4
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBelkin International, Inc.Mosyle

Customer experience

Stage by Belkin

All ratings150 ratings
Positive82.7%
Neutral5.3%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive29.8%
Neutral14.9%
Negative55.3%

Mosyle School

All ratings91 ratings
Positive20.9%
Neutral2.2%
Negative76.9%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive13.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative87.0%

User reviews

Stage by Belkin

From 154 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great for education
  • 💡 Versatile tool
  • 📸 Good picture quality
  • ✍️ Annotation tools
  • 🌟 Useful for presentations

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent freezing/crashing
  • 💸 Expensive in-app purchases
  • 🛠️ Not user-friendly
  • 📉 Poor video quality
  • 🚫 Lacks essential features

Mosyle School

From 92 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ⭐ Works for schools
  • 👍 Easy to set up (for IT)
  • 💰 Cost-effective for schools

Room to improve

  • 👎 Restricts app access
  • 👎 Rearranges apps alphabetically
  • 👎 Cannot uninstall
  • 👎 Privacy concerns (screen recording)
  • 👎 Device management issues

Bugs and requests

Stage by Belkin

Reported bugs

21 issues
  • App freezes daily
  • Sessions keep getting dropped
  • PDF not working
  • Clicks heard in session
  • App locks up randomly
Show 16 more
  • App freezes or unexpectedly quits since iOS 9
  • Crashes since iOS 9 upgrade
  • Stopped working after installing iOS 9
  • Doesn't save video
  • Crashes a ton
  • Text tool buggy
  • Keyboard would not close
  • Page froze, did not auto save
  • App opens on page 0
  • Won't record longer than 10 secs
  • Adding additional parts causes crashes
  • Won't open
  • Won't open since updating to iOS 7
  • Air Play crash issue with iOS 7
  • Cannot zoom into 16:9 format
  • Ruins video when switching between camera and whiteboard

Requested features

18 requests
  • Turn off click sounds
  • More settings available
  • Ability to move/minimize white bar
  • Edit videos
  • Use front and back camera
Show 13 more
  • Help option other than tips
  • Make shapes work
  • Dictation capitalization fix
  • Remove watermark
  • Save and share functionality
  • PDF export
  • Ability to use camera, pause, switch to whiteboard, pause, and switch back to camera in videos
  • Zoom functionality
  • Pro app included with physical Stage purchase
  • Import pictures from camera roll
  • Record on whiteboard/blackboard/imported pictures
  • More pen sizes and color options
  • Ability to use fonts

Mosyle School

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Device management starts randomly
  • Apps disappear and cannot be recovered
  • App won't open during Zoom meetings
  • App crashes everything
  • App rearranges apps alphabetically
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  • App slows down device speed

Requested features

7 requests
  • Allow users to uninstall
  • Allow users to keep apps in original place
  • Add more apps to the store
  • Admin console for QR codes
  • Allow users to play games during free periods/lunch
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  • Fix app rearrangement issue
  • Allow users to control screen recording permissions

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Stage by Belkin

One-time7
  • Shapes$0.99
  • Academic Backgrounds$0.99
  • Multiple Sessions and Canvases$0.99
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  • Multiple Pictures$0.99
  • PDF$0.99
  • Video Recording$1.99
  • Get All Pro Features$4.99
None

Mosyle School

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stage by Belkin free?
Stage by Belkin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mosyle School free?
Mosyle School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stage by Belkin or Mosyle School?
Stage by Belkin is rated higher. Stage by Belkin averages 4.4 out of 5 from 154 ratings, while Mosyle School averages 1.8 from 92 ratings.
Do Stage by Belkin or Mosyle School have ads?
Neither Stage by Belkin nor Mosyle School shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stage by Belkin or Mosyle School?
Stage by Belkin ships an update every 4 months, and Mosyle School every 2 months. Most recently, Stage by Belkin was updated on October 21, 2026 and Mosyle School on October 21, 2026.

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