Teachers.io vs TeachFX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
TeachFX
This tool helps educators gain insights into classroom learning dynamics by capturing and analyzing student-teacher conversations. It provides visible evidence of student engagement and instructional practices, fostering reflection and professional growth. The app is designed for privacy and personalization.
- Classroom talk ratio analysis
- Academic language tracking
- Questioning technique evaluation
- Think time and turn-taking observation
- Student participation patterns
- Personalized and private data
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TeachFX is a tool designed for teachers that surfaces unique insights about the learning dynamics in the classroom—such as on ratios of talk, lesson design, academic language, questioning techniques, think time, turn taking, participation patterns and on many more instructional practices. Use it during instruction to capture the conversations between you and your students, and get visible evidence of student engagement. It’s all personalized and private to you, and designed to foster your reflection and growth. Try it out today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TeachFX at 5.0 against Teachers.io's 3.7. TeachFX also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Teachers.io's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, 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. TeachFX asks for nothing beyond the download.
TeachFX holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Teachers.io's written reviews are positive against 75% of TeachFX's.
Teachers.io ships an update every 3 months, TeachFX weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Teachers.io | TeachFX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | instin, LLC | TeachFX |
Customer experience
Teachers.io
TeachFX
Bugs and 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
TeachFX
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Teachers.io
- Ads-Free Account$4.99
TeachFX
No in-app purchases
Questions
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