Comparison

Classroom Buddy vs PrepPeriod

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

Head to head
About

Classroom Buddy

Features
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Classroom Buddy is a simple, powerful classroom management app designed for teachers. Track attendance in seconds, organise students into groups, and give instant performance feedback during or after lessons. Every student can be profiled with a photo, and teachers can quickly rate behaviour using intuitive Good, Average, and Poor feedback tools. Key features: • Fast attendance tracking • Student performance ratings with quick feedback tools • Post-lesson reports saved automatically for review • Student profiles with photos or built-in avatars • Group creation and random group selection • Performance tracking over time with visual graphs • Fully offline – no account or internet required Classroom Buddy is designed to save time, reduce admin, and help teachers focus on teaching. Whether you're managing PE, classroom lessons, or group activities, Classroom Buddy keeps everything organised in one place.

About

PrepPeriod

This app allows educators to quickly log classroom incidents, hall passes, parent contacts, and positive notes directly from their smartwatch. It provides a timestamped record of events, helping teachers track student behavior and communication. Detailed reports can be generated for meetings and conferences.

Highlights
  • Log incidents from smartwatch
  • Timestamped event capture
  • Hall pass tracking
  • Parent-contact logging
  • Behavior and positive note tracking
  • Generate printable PDF reports
Features
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Get your prep period back. PrepPeriod is the classroom documentation tool built for how teachers actually work — on your feet, in front of students, with no time to type. Log an incident, a hall pass, a parent-contact reminder, or a positive note in two taps from your Apple Watch, without ever pulling out your phone. Then fill in the details later, during your prep, when the app nudges you. Every entry is timestamped the moment you capture it — so when you walk into a parent conference, an IEP meeting, or an administrator's office, you have a clear, credible record of exactly what happened and when. CAPTURE IN CLASS, COMPLETE AT PREP Tap a student on your wrist, tap a category, done. The event lands in your inbox with an exact timestamp. When your prep period comes around, the app reminds you to add the details while they're fresh. BUILT FOR THE WHOLE DAY - Behavior incidents and positive notes - Hall passes with bathroom, water, and nurse tracking — see when a student is out too often - Parent-contact log: record every call and its outcome — dictate what happened and the method fills itself in - Attendance, absences, and lates - Rotating and A/B day schedules SEE THE PATTERNS PrepPeriod quietly counts what you capture, so patterns you'd otherwise miss become clear — like a student who's left class nine times this month. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything lives privately on your own devices and syncs across them through your personal iCloud. No accounts. No servers. Your students' information never goes to us or anyone else. PROFESSIONAL REPORTS AND FASTER CONTACT LOGGING (one-time unlock) Generate a clean, printable PDF of any student's history — timestamped, organized, and ready for a meeting or conference. Plus: dictate a parent-contact note and the method is filled in for you, entirely on your iPhone. Requires iPhone 15 Pro or newer with Apple Intelligence. Unlock once and it's yours forever. Made by a teacher, for teachers.

Screenshots

Classroom Buddy3 screens
PrepPeriod4 screens

Verdict

The call

Classroom Buddy and PrepPeriod are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Classroom Buddy versus PrepPeriod: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClassroom BuddyPrepPeriod
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJayme LawmanFogarty Holdings LLC

In-app purchases

None

Classroom Buddy

No in-app purchases

None

PrepPeriod

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Classroom Buddy free?
Classroom Buddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PrepPeriod free?
PrepPeriod is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Classroom Buddy or PrepPeriod have ads?
Neither Classroom Buddy nor PrepPeriod shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Classroom Buddy or PrepPeriod?
Classroom Buddy ships an update fortnightly, and PrepPeriod fortnightly. Most recently, Classroom Buddy was updated on November 5, 2026 and PrepPeriod on October 31, 2026.

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