EdTA vs CircleUp | Performing Arts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EdTA
This app serves as a professional association for theatre educators and a parent organization for a student honor society. It produces major theatre events for students to showcase talents, learn new skills, and connect with peers.
- Professional association for theatre educators
- Parent organization for student honor society
- Produces International Thespian Festival
- Showcase student talents
- Learn theatre skills and techniques
- Network with theatre makers
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The Educational Theatre Association (EdTA) is an international nonprofit that serves as the professional association for theatre educators. EdTA is the parent organization of the International Thespian Society, a student honor society that has inducted more than 2.5 million Thespians since 1929, and producer of the International Thespian Festival and Theatre Education Conference. The International Thespian Festival (ITF) is summer’s premier celebration of theatre, where theatre students immerse themselves in art form by showcasing their talents on stage, working behind the scenes, auditioning for college theatre programs, attending performances of all kinds, or learning new theatre skills and techniques in workshops. Participants leave ITF with a network of fellow theatre makers and memories that will last a lifetime.
CircleUp | Performing Arts
This app provides notifications for important announcements and updates from performing arts organizations. It helps users stay connected to their school, youth theatre, college, or community organization's programming and manage household participation.
- Real-time notifications
- Household connection
- Organization management
- Program updates
- Community engagement
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CircleUp: Stay Connected to Your Performing Arts Community If your school, youth theatre, college, or community performing arts organization uses CircleUp to manage their programming then you need this app to unlock convenient app notifications when important announcements and updates are sent to you or someone from your household. Keep your entire household connected and on top of their performing arts participation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EdTA at 5.0 against CircleUp | Performing Arts's 4.6. EdTA also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). CircleUp | Performing Arts's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
EdTA holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
EdTA ships an update fortnightly, CircleUp | Performing Arts every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EdTA | CircleUp | Performing Arts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Educational Theatre Association | CircleUp LLC |
Customer experience
EdTA
CircleUp | Performing Arts
In-app purchases
EdTA
No in-app purchases
CircleUp | Performing Arts
No in-app purchases
Questions
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