Comparison

ADMINS | TalkingPoints vs Progress Grove

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

Head to head
About

ADMINS | TalkingPoints

This app enables school administrators to communicate with families via two-way messaging, announcements, and file sharing. It supports over 150 languages with automatic translation and can reach individuals, groups, or the entire school community.

Highlights
  • Two-way messaging with families
  • Automatic translation in 150+ languages
  • Send messages to individuals, groups, or the whole school
  • Attach pictures, videos, and files
  • Messages delivered via text or app
Features
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The TalkingPoints for Admins app helps admins stay connected to their school community while on the go. Through this app, you can send messages and announcements from your school inbox or personal inbox and receive replies from families. TalkingPoints will continue adding to and improving the mobile app to maximize effective engagement for our on-the-go administrators. With the TalkingPoints for Admins app, you can: • communicate with families through 2-way messaging, with automatic translation in 150+ languages • quickly send messages to one parent, a group of family contacts, a class, or the entire school • engage with families in an equitable way by sending messages that arrive via text message or the TalkingPoints for Families app • attach pictures, videos and files to your messages TalkingPoints for Admins is for school administrators whose school or district partners with TalkingPoints.

About

Progress Grove

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Progress Grove helps K–5 counselors, teachers and behavior specialists record behavior episodes as they happen and turn them into clear, dated observations for intervention reviews and MTSS meetings. MADE FOR THE MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT • Tap Start event when a student is dysregulated, then Escalating, Calming and Regulated as things change. The clock keeps time on its own. • Handing off to the counselor, the office or another teacher? Record who took over in one tap. • A safety event is one more tap, and it doesn't end the session. • Switch to another student and the open session keeps running. • Undo the last tap, or correct a time later. A timer left running is flagged so it can't skew the averages. ADD CONTEXT AFTERWARD • Tap what happened before, what the student did and what helped. • Add a short note by typing or dictating. Dictation is transcribed on the device, and the audio isn't saved. • Sessions waiting for details collect in one list, so nothing is forgotten. SEE WHAT'S WORKING • Each student's history shows how long episodes last, how much of that time was escalating, and which supports were used. • Filter to favorites or to students with sessions that still need notes. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no server, no analytics and no ads. • Students are a number and a color badge, never a name. The app warns you if a note looks like it contains a name. • Records stay in the app's private storage on your device until you choose to export them. • Everything works offline. YOUR SCHOOL KEEPS THE RECORDS • Export a CSV report or a full backup and choose where it goes, such as your school's Google Drive. • Schools can install the free Progress Grove Google Sheet in their own Google Workspace to build MTSS overviews and meeting reports from those exports. • Optional Face ID or passcode lock, and a backup reminder so a lost phone doesn't mean lost records. Progress Grove is made by QuickerNotes, LLC. Questions: support@progressgrove.com

Screenshots

ADMINS | TalkingPoints3 screens
Progress Grove4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Progress Grove at every 2 days against ADMINS | TalkingPoints's every 3 weeks. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ADMINS | TalkingPoints ships an update every 3 weeks, Progress Grove every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ADMINS | TalkingPoints versus Progress Grove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterADMINS | TalkingPointsProgress Grove
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTalkingPoints CorpEverfresh Auto Detailing

In-app purchases

None

ADMINS | TalkingPoints

No in-app purchases

None

Progress Grove

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ADMINS | TalkingPoints free?
ADMINS | TalkingPoints is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Progress Grove free?
Progress Grove is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ADMINS | TalkingPoints or Progress Grove have ads?
Neither ADMINS | TalkingPoints nor Progress Grove shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ADMINS | TalkingPoints or Progress Grove?
ADMINS | TalkingPoints ships an update every 3 weeks, and Progress Grove every 2 days. Most recently, ADMINS | TalkingPoints was updated on October 7, 2026 and Progress Grove on October 5, 2026.

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