Comparison

Report Card Comments vs ORTA School

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

Head to head
About

Report Card Comments

Features
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REMARK turns a ten second note about a student into a finished report card comment. Capture what you see during the week. At report time the comment is already written, from your own observations. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Capture a moment in ten seconds, in your own shorthand - Turn those notes into a full report card comment in seconds - Write warm messages home to families from the same notes - Cover several students with a single note - See at a glance which students still have nothing on file - Set your report deadline and watch the countdown - Keep a personal bank of comments you reuse every term - Export as plain text or CSV, or copy one comment at a time - Full two pane layout on iPad, with keyboard shortcuts WHY TEACHERS USE IT - Report week stops being hours of blank boxes - Every comment is grounded in something you actually observed - Nothing generic and nothing recycled from last year - Your voice stays yours, because every draft is fully editable - Read your own notes back as evidence beside each comment PRIVACY YOU CAN CHECK YOURSELF - No ads. Not one, anywhere in the app. - No account, no sign up, no email address required - Your classes, students and notes stay on your device - Student names are replaced with placeholder tokens before any AI request leaves the device, so the AI never receives a child name - You can read the exact outgoing request at any time in Settings - No analytics services, no trackers, no data brokers - Nothing you write is ever used to train AI models BUILT FOR QUALITY - One clear monospaced interface, designed to be read fast - Full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support - Capture, editing, export and backup all work offline - No clutter and no distractions between you and your class WHO IT IS FOR - Primary and elementary teachers - Middle school and high school teachers - Homeroom teachers and subject teachers - Anyone who writes report card comments for a whole class HOW IT WORKS 1. Add a class and paste your roster from an email or a spreadsheet 2. Capture short notes as you teach 3. At report time, open the studio and generate a comment 4. Edit it, approve it, and export it to your school system Everything you enter belongs to you. Export a backup file whenever you like and keep it wherever you keep your school documents. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ORTA School

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ORTA School is one app for a private school: students, parents, teachers and the principal together. STUDENTS • Daily and weekly schedule with rooms and teachers • All grades and subject averages • Homework with file submission from the phone • Personal QR code for instant attendance • Anonymous lesson rating via the teacher's QR • O-COIN rewards for on-time homework and attendance • ORTA Assistant answers about schedule, homework and grades PARENTS • Grades, attendance and homework for each child • Instant notifications about new grades and absences • Messaging with teachers • Data-processing consent management TEACHERS • Gradebook for grades and attendance • QR scanner to mark students • Homework and tests with attachments • Messages from the principal, students and parents PRINCIPALS • School overview: attendance, performance, homework • Teacher workload and ranking, who is in a lesson now • At-risk students and reports Security: each school's data is isolated, two-factor sign-in for staff, full audit log. Access is provided by your school.

Screenshots

Report Card Comments4 screens
ORTA School4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ORTA School at Free against Report Card Comments's $1.99. ORTA School also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On ads and device support 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

ORTA School is free to download; Report Card Comments costs $1.99 up front. Report Card Comments sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ORTA School asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Report Card Comments versus ORTA School: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReport Card CommentsORTA School
Price$1.99Free — better
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAneesh Pradeeposcar altynbekov

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Report Card Comments

Subscriptions2
  • REMARK Unlimited Monthly$2.991 Month
  • REMARK Unlimited Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • REMARK Unlimited Lifetime$49.99
None

ORTA School

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Report Card Comments free?
Report Card Comments costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is ORTA School free?
ORTA School is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Report Card Comments or ORTA School have ads?
Neither Report Card Comments nor ORTA School shows ads.

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