Comparison

Smartcoach App vs Thinker Teacher

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

Head to head
About

Smartcoach App

Features
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SmartCoach is a mobile app designed by educators, for educators. The app introduces teachers and educators to the Inspiring Teaching Framework, which consists of a set of principles that explains the science of teaching as well as 27 powerful teaching techniques to use in the classroom. The app provides videos, illustrations, clear definitions and success criteria for each technique. In this way, SmartCoach is a valuable resource for teachers, providing them with a practical toolkit in the palm of their hands. In addition to the content of the Inspiring Framework, teachers and school leaders are able to partner with colleagues from their school and conduct peer coaching cycles. The app provides step-by-step guidance on how to observe and provide feedback to colleagues and helps teachers work through the framework focussing on a technique a week. School Leaders can use the app to facilitate staff meetings and track attendance of staff meetings, as well as conducting regular learning walks of their classroom teachers to check the progress they are making. As well as these core features, we're excited to be introducing a student area in the app which will allow teachers to register attendance and conduct literacy assessments of their students. SmartCoach has been designed to work in low-resource contexts. Any progress a user makes in the app can be saved offline and is uploaded to the cloud whenever their device connects to the internet. Activity takes up very low amounts of data. The videos in the app can be downloaded to a users device so they can be watched offline and have been optimized to play at low internet speeds and compressed to not use high amounts of data when watched online via streaming.

About

Thinker Teacher

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Thinker Teacher brings the classroom to your pocket. Built for the teachers of Think Engineering, it keeps your groups, attendance, homework and grades in one place, so the week runs itself and you stay with the students. Mark attendance in a tap. Set homework and review it where you are. Chat with a group or a single student. Open your calendar and know what comes next. In Armenian and English, light and dark.

Screenshots

Smartcoach App4 screens
Thinker Teacher2 screens

Verdict

The call

Smartcoach App and Thinker Teacher are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smartcoach App ships an update every 3 weeks, Thinker Teacher every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Smartcoach App versus Thinker Teacher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartcoach AppThinker Teacher
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size49 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInspiring Teachers (Apps)STEM DIDACTICS LLC

In-app purchases

None

Smartcoach App

No in-app purchases

None

Thinker Teacher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smartcoach App free?
Smartcoach App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Thinker Teacher free?
Thinker Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smartcoach App or Thinker Teacher have ads?
Neither Smartcoach App nor Thinker Teacher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smartcoach App or Thinker Teacher?
Smartcoach App ships an update every 3 weeks, and Thinker Teacher every 9 days. Most recently, Smartcoach App was updated on October 24, 2026 and Thinker Teacher on October 29, 2026.

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