Sekigae vs ClassBench
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sekigae
This app simplifies classroom management by automatically generating fair seating charts based on customizable constraints. It allows for AI-powered roster import, flexible classroom layouts, and various reveal animations to engage students. All data is stored locally, ensuring privacy and offline functionality.
- AI roster photo import
- Multiple constraint customization
- Flexible classroom layout design
- Automatic seating generation
- Various reveal animations
- Export to Excel/CSV and print
- Offline functionality
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Sekigae-kun is an app that automatically generates fair seating arrangements by considering multiple constraints — so everyone is happy with the result. "I want to keep those two apart." "This student needs to sit near the front." "I want to separate boys' and girls' seats." — Sekigae-kun solves all of these concerns at once. 【Combine Multiple Constraints Freely】 The biggest strength of Sekigae-kun is the ability to set multiple constraints simultaneously. - Gender-based seat assignment (paint boy/girl seats on the layout) - Quick setup with checkerboard, column-alternating, or row-alternating templates - Restrict specific students to designated areas - Ensure minimum distance between two students - Keep specific pairs of students close together (Distance Proximity) - Arrange students in student number order (freely set starting position & direction) [NEW] - Place students in different seats from last time - Set priority (High / Medium / Low) for each constraint Combine these freely to automatically generate the optimal seating arrangement tailored to your class. 【Key Features】 ■ Roster Photo Import - Register members in bulk just by photographing a class roster - AI auto-detects attendance numbers, names, readings, and gender - AI recognition supports all 18 languages - Auto-infers readings and gender even from rosters without them - Also supports selecting images from the gallery - Review and edit recognition results before importing ■ Class & Roster Management - Register and manage multiple classes - Register attendance numbers, names, and gender for each member - Auto-reassign attendance numbers when sorted alphabetically - Import members from existing classes ■ Classroom Layout Design - Set rows and columns freely (1–10) - Toggle each seat on/off - Adapts to any classroom arrangement ■ Seating Shuffle - Auto-generate seating considering all constraints - Choose to adjust or accept results when violations occur - Manually adjust results (tap to swap seats) ■ Export & Print - Export as Excel (.xlsx) / CSV (.csv) - Excel includes auto-added flipped sheet [NEW] - Displays student number, reading, and name [NEW] - Generate black-and-white seating chart images (.png) - Choose A4 landscape or portrait orientation - Print directly as PDF ■ Reveal Animations - Roulette mode: all seats shuffle rapidly then reveal at once - Lottery mode: pick students one by one and reveal their seats - Project onto the classroom screen for excitement! ■ Seating History - All past seating results are saved - Review or re-edit anytime 【Highlights】 - All data stored on-device (no cloud required) - No account registration needed - Works fully offline - Simple and intuitive UI
ClassBench
This tool helps primary and secondary school homeroom teachers manage daily tasks. It consolidates student information, attendance, grades, and communication logs in one place, accessible both offline and via a secure local network connection from a computer. Features include customizable student profiles, grade analysis, and secure data backup.
- Student information management
- Attendance and leave tracking
- Grade recording and analysis
- Parent communication log
- Offline data access
- Secure local network access
- Data backup and transfer
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ClassBench is a day-to-day tool for teachers who run a class. Running a class means keeping track of small, scattered things: who's on leave, whose turn it is for cleaning duty, which students you spoke with this week, how many days until the midterm. They end up spread across chat apps, notes and paper books — hard to find, harder to hand over. ClassBench keeps them in one place. TODAY Today's timetable, to-dos, exam countdowns and student birthdays on one screen. The timetable handles odd and even week rotations and shows the right classes for the current teaching week. To-do reminders are worded so no student information appears on your lock screen. MANAGE Log and clear leave, award or deduct points, schedule and rate cleaning duty, keep parent contacts, and pull a term report. Enter exam scores by subject or import them from Excel, and get per-subject averages, the list of students below the pass mark, and class statistics. Set subjects and pass marks once and they become the class default for every new exam. Grade Scale Reference simulates banded scoring against this class's own results — a teaching aid, not a real conversion. STUDENT PROFILES A profile for every student: basics, two guardians, points, leave, score trends and a growth timeline. Add students in bulk or import an Excel roster, and arrange, swap or resize seats on a seating chart. Guardian consent can be signed by hand on your phone, or photographed from a paper form and archived. WORK NOTES Jot down a home visit, a talk or a parent call, with photos, audio or video attached and linked to specific students. Recordings are transcribed by on-device speech recognition — the audio never leaves your phone. Note types are yours to maintain. DESKTOP WORKBENCH Start it manually and a computer on the same local network can open an encrypted web page, sign in with a one-time code, and enter students, scores and timetables in bulk. It never touches a server, stops itself when the app is backgrounded, and logs every access. WIDGETS AND SHORTCUTS Four widgets: today's timetable and to-dos, attendance, exam countdown, and quick actions. Long-press the app icon to log leave, award points or write a note. Siri works too — ask it to open a student or check the next exam. BACKUP AND DEVICE TRANSFER Export everything as an encrypted backup with a password you choose, photos and recordings included. Save it via AirDrop or Files, and open it to restore. Moving to a new phone is simpler still: put both on the same Wi-Fi, show the QR code on the old one, scan it with the new one, and the data moves directly between them, encrypted, without touching a server. LANGUAGES AND ACCESSIBILITY The interface is available in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, following your system language or set per app. VoiceOver reads every control, including score tables and trend charts. Text scales with Dynamic Type all the way to the accessibility sizes, and layouts reflow rather than truncate. Turning on Reduce Motion stops looping animations. Scores below the pass mark carry a triangle marker as well as red, so colour is never the only cue. PRIVACY This is the part ClassBench most wants to be clear about. Student and parent information is encrypted with SM4-GCM and stored on the device. The master key lives in the system keychain, restricted to this device and excluded from backups. There are no ads, no analytics, no telemetry and no third-party SDKs, no account to register for, and no code path that sends data to the internet. The app can be locked with a passcode, unlocked quickly with Face ID or Touch ID, and locks itself when backgrounded — student data never shows in the app switcher. Deletion works at three levels: one student, one class, or everything, so records can go the moment a student transfers, graduates, or a parent asks. Please obtain guardian consent offline before entering student information. A printable consent form is built into the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sekigae at 100% against ClassBench's 90%. Sekigae also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Sekigae ships an update every 6 days, ClassBench every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sekigae | ClassBench |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hirosuke Yonekubo | Longyan Xinluo Zhejia Technology Co., Ltd |
Customer experience
Sekigae
ClassBench
In-app purchases
Sekigae
No in-app purchases
ClassBench
No in-app purchases









