Comparison

Bunt vs ChalkNote

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

Head to head
About

Bunt

This app is an offline, encrypted teacher planner for managing courses, grades, seating charts, and lesson plans. It prioritizes user privacy with no sign-up required and data stored exclusively on the device. Features include timetable creation, student management, customizable grading, and PDF report export.

Highlights
  • Offline gradebook and planner
  • Encrypted student data storage
  • Timetable and lesson planning
  • Interactive seating charts
  • Customizable grading scales
  • PDF report export
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Tired of spreadsheets and unprotected student data? Bunt is your all-in-one teacher planner – no sign-up, 100% offline, fully encrypted. Courses, grades, seating charts, and lesson planning in one place. Privacy & Security Your data belongs to you – no compromises. • No sign-up required, get started right away • 100% offline – no internet connection needed • All data is encrypted and stored exclusively on your device • No tracking, no analytics, no data sharing • Optional iCloud sync with end-to-end encryption • Encrypted backups for complete peace of mind • Optional backups to your own WebDAV server – encrypted and under your control • WebDAV configuration, grading keys, and working-time settings centrally manageable via MDM by your school Timetable & Lesson Planning Your school day – organized and streamlined. • Create and adjust your timetable anytime • Plan lessons with attachments, materials, and notes • Reminders for upcoming exams and deadlines • Jigsaw method built right into the app Working Hours Keep track of your working time – local and encrypted. • Track working hours with a timer, manually, or automatically • Events with a working-time category are counted automatically • Rate each time with a strain level to spot demanding phases • Analyze by period and category and export the record as a PDF Courses & Student Management All your classes and students, always at your fingertips. • Create and manage courses with ease • Interactive seating chart for every class • Log absences quickly and effortlessly • Attach files to individual student profiles • Student journal for personal observations • Checklists and to-dos for each student • CSV import for quick class list setup Grades & Assessments Fair grading made simple – transparent and trackable. • Grade across multiple categories with notes • Fully customizable grade categories • Edit and manage your own grading scales • Track grade progression over time • Course monitoring for a quick status overview • Random student picker for spontaneous quizzes and group grading • Export reports and grade summaries as PDF Communication & Customization Communicate professionally, configure freely. • Create and reuse email templates • Adaptable to most school systems • Grading scales, categories, and assessment systems fully configurable Bunt was co-designed with teachers and built around what matters most: a secure, fast, and intuitive companion for your school day. No subscription, no tracking, no cloud required – just get started.

About

ChalkNote

Features
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ChalkNote, formerly ClassTrack, is a behaviour log for teachers, built by a teacher for the thirty seconds you actually have. Swipe a student right for positive or left for negative and the sheet opens with half the decision already made. Tap what happened, and get back to the lesson. By the time the parent meeting comes around, a term of small notes has already become a report. Your records stay yours. No account, no sign-up, and no advertising for anyone, free or paid. ChalkNote never sends student names or behaviour records anywhere. They leave your device only if you export them, turn on a backup to your own account or folder, or choose online recognition for a voice note — which is what makes ChalkNote easy to put in front of a principal or a privacy officer. LOG IT IN SECONDS • Paste in your class list and start logging in a minute • Swipe or tap a student, pick a behaviour, done • Log the whole class at once when everyone earned it, or hold a name to pick several students • Positive and negative behaviours, grouped under the learning skills report cards ask about • Undo any log for 8 seconds, and correct its behaviour, time or note later • Add a note by typing or by voice • Works entirely offline — a dead Wi-Fi day changes nothing SEE WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING • Class and per-student summaries • Every student's last 14 school days, right on the roster • Sort by who has gone longest without a positive, and find who needs a good word • Behaviour trends and category breakdowns • Every log at a glance, searchable by student, behaviour or note • Notes about a student as a whole, kept on their own page WALK INTO THE MEETING READY • Export a PDF report for one student or the whole class, or a spreadsheet of the logs • Pick the period: this week, the last 30 days, or any dates you choose, like a term or the year • Add a comment for whoever will read it, and signature lines for the meeting • Plain enough to hand to a parent, specific enough for an IEP meeting or a referral A NEW SCHOOL YEAR, WITHOUT STARTING OVER • Archive last year's class • Start a fresh copy with the same students • Move a student to another class, logs included YOUR DATA, AND YOUR BACKUP • Back up and restore whenever you like • Automatic backups daily or weekly • Export a backup to a folder you choose every week, by itself • Free, deliberately and permanently — your records are not a hostage FREE, WITH NO ADS Unlimited classes, unlimited students, unlimited behaviour logs, PDF exports and backups, plus 2 behaviour types of your own. Not a trial, and not capped at one class. CHALKNOTE PLUS • Behaviour heatmaps — which days and times behaviours cluster, per class and per student • Charts in your PDF reports — category breakdowns, trends over time, when in the week and day behaviour happens, and how a period compares with the one before • Your school logo on exported reports • Unlimited behaviour types of your own — add, delete, reorder and organize them and their categories • A report for each student in a class in one go, each a PDF of its own to send to their family • A seating chart — pick a student or a whole table by where they sit when you log Plus is available monthly or annually; the annual plan works out to about half the monthly price and starts with a month free for new subscribers. Prices are shown in your own currency before anything is charged. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS ChalkNote Plus is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://chalknote.ca/terms Privacy Policy: https://chalknote.ca/privacy

Screenshots

Bunt4 screens
ChalkNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bunt at none against ChalkNote's 2. Bunt also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). ChalkNote's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, 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

Both are free to download. ChalkNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Bunt asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bunt ships an update fortnightly, ChalkNote every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bunt versus ChalkNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuntChalkNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSebastian MaschinskiJoshua Makes

In-app purchases

None

Bunt

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ChalkNote

Subscriptions2
  • ChalkNote Plus$3.991 Month
  • ChalkNote Plus1 Month trial$22.991 Year

Questions

Is Bunt free?
Bunt is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChalkNote free?
ChalkNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bunt or ChalkNote have ads?
Neither Bunt nor ChalkNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bunt or ChalkNote?
Bunt ships an update fortnightly, and ChalkNote every 5 weeks. Most recently, Bunt was updated on November 4, 2026 and ChalkNote on November 10, 2026.

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