Comparison

Generation Faraday vs IDK Can You?

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

Head to head
About

Generation Faraday

This app helps schools manage and enforce phone policies using Faraday bags. It tracks bag assignments, serial numbers, and replacements, offering real-time compliance insights. Administrators can simplify policy enforcement for a more focused learning environment.

Highlights
  • Student Faraday bag assignment tracking
  • Serial number management
  • Replacement tracking
  • Real-time compliance insights
  • Detailed student listings
  • User-friendly dashboard
Features
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The Generation Faraday App is designed to help schools enforce signal-free policies with Generation Faraday bags. Perfect for administrators, this app tracks student faraday bag assignments, serial numbers, and replacements while providing real-time insights into compliance. With features like detailed student listings, a user-friendly dashboard, and quick serial correlation, it simplifies policy enforcement and supports focused, distraction-free learning. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

IDK Can You?

This app automates classroom hall passes and device checkouts, eliminating paper logs and manual tracking. Students scan themselves in and out, while teachers set rules for limits, destinations, and timers, only intervening when necessary.

Highlights
  • Self-service student scanning for hall passes
  • Real-time tracking of active passes
  • Configurable pass limits and timers
  • Automated device check-in/out
  • Damage reporting for classroom devices
  • CSV import for class setup
Features
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IDK Can You? is classroom accountability that runs itself: hall passes and device checkouts without paper logs, approval queues, or another system teachers have to babysit. Students scan themselves out and back in at a classroom kiosk. IDK Can You? handles the clock, waitlist, return, and overdue flags. You set the rules once—limits, destinations, timers, and automatic restrictions—and step in only when something actually needs you. No approval queue. No request page on a student’s screen. No IT ticket just to check out a Chromebook. Set it once. Then teach. HALL PASSES • Turn a classroom device into a self-service kiosk where students scan themselves out and back in • See every active pass and timer live from your phone • Review pass history for today, this week, or the entire term • Set the boundaries that work for your classroom, including how many students can be out, individual limits, destinations, and timers DEVICE CHECKOUTS • Check Chromebooks and other classroom devices in and out by scanning • See what is out, what came back, and what was reported damaged • Track loaners without losing a student’s original device assignment BUILT FOR SCHOOL REALITY • Set up a class in minutes by importing a CSV or adding students by hand • Use IDK Can You? from your phone, a classroom kiosk, or the web • We track passes, not kids: only the data the system needs, encrypted and never used for advertising • No ads. Ever.

Screenshots

Generation Faraday3 screens
IDK Can You?4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: IDK Can You? at every 4 days against Generation Faraday's fortnightly. Generation Faraday's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Generation Faraday against 5.0 for IDK Can You?. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Generation Faraday has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Generation Faraday ships an update fortnightly, IDK Can You? every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Generation Faraday versus IDK Can You?: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeneration FaradayIDK Can You?
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMerakai, LLCElisha Lucero

Customer experience

Generation Faraday

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

IDK Can You?

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Generation Faraday

No in-app purchases

None

IDK Can You?

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Generation Faraday free?
Generation Faraday is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IDK Can You? free?
IDK Can You? is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Generation Faraday or IDK Can You??
Generation Faraday and IDK Can You? are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Generation Faraday or IDK Can You? have ads?
Neither Generation Faraday nor IDK Can You? shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Generation Faraday or IDK Can You??
Generation Faraday ships an update fortnightly, and IDK Can You? every 4 days. Most recently, Generation Faraday was updated on October 16, 2026 and IDK Can You? on October 10, 2026.

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