Pickadoo vs Group

Pickadoo is the practical teacher companion app for everyday classroom life: randomly and fairly select students, manage seating charts, and build groups – right on iPhone and iPad. FAIR SELECTION • Pick students randomly instead of paper lists • Just shake or swipe • A fairness algorithm makes sure no one is favored or forgotten • Alternative: call on students in order with a linear list • Animated reveal for students and groups • Learn student names faster SEATING CHARTS • Create, print, and manage multiple seating charts for every classroom and subject room • Automatically place and arrange students • Export and share your charts GROUPS • Split students into fair, flexible groups • Set your own rules and constraints ORGANIZATION • Manage multiple classes and timetables • Track attendance • View statistics on your selection history • Full functionality on iPhone and iPad PRIVACY • All data stays exclusively on your device • No registration, no internet required, no ads, no tracking Pickadoo supports you in class – fast, simple, and fair.

Group-O-Mat builds fair groups in seconds: photograph the class list or import it from Excel, Numbers, Untis or CSV, pick a team size, shuffle, done. Made for teachers, coaches and anyone who needs to split a group quickly and transparently. FAIR AND UNDER YOUR CONTROL • Balance strength and gender, spread or separate traits (language level, elective …) • Rules: together, apart, fixed team – applied on every shuffle • Fair mixing avoids recent pairings; "who was with whom" heatmap • Lock teams and reshuffle the rest, dry run with five variants, balance report CLASSROOM TOOLS • Jigsaw: home and expert groups in three phases, with a timer and topics • Stations with rotation plan and round timer • Partner interviews: everyone meets everyone exactly once • Tournaments from the teams (knockout or round robin) with results • Rotating duties with absences and substitutes – as a printable PDF up to the half-year, holidays typed in or imported from iCal files • Draw a random person or team, as a name roll or a wheel FOR THE PROJECTOR • Presentation mode with big cards, hidden reveal and countdown • AirPlay/HDMI: the class sees the presentation, you keep the teacher view; in Split View the projector mirrors the whole iPad • Student view hides gender colours, strength and traits • 14 themes from wizard school to outer space, plus your own with photo and sounds ORGANISATION • Lists for classes, courses and clubs, attendance per session • Save events and edit them later, team posters as PDF for the pinboard • Widgets: today's teams and a quick draw without opening the app • Share as text, image, CSV or PDF; backup as a file PRIVACY • No accounts, no server, no tracking, no ads • Everything stays on your device; optional iCloud sync with names and photos end-to-end encrypted In English, German, French and Spanish. Buy once, for iPhone and iPad.