Ball Chatham vs Clever
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ball Chatham
Access school district news, events, and important information like contact details, sports scores, and lunch menus. Stay connected with social media updates from your school.
- School news and events
- Social media integration
- Contact information retrieval
- Sporting scores
- Lunch menus
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With the Ball Chatham mobile app, your school district comes alive with the touch of a button. Easily navigate through current news and events or check out the latest updates with social media like Facebook and Twitter. Quickly retrieve contact information, sporting scores, lunch menus, and more! It’s your school district available at your fingertips.
Clever
Provides secure access to digital learning resources for students through a single sign-on portal. Enables easy access to classroom tools and applications on iOS devices, requiring school or district setup.
- Single sign-on for digital learning
- Secure access to classroom resources
- Student portal on iOS devices
- Login via Clever Badge or credentials
- Powers digital learning experiences
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Clever powers secure digital learning experiences for more than 100,000 schools worldwide. Clever’s single-sign on portal makes it easy for teachers and students to securely access all classroom resources from a single place. This application enables students to access digital learning via Clever Portal on iOS devices. Students will be able to login to a dedicated Clever student portal within the application by scanning their Clever Badge or signing in with their Clever credentials. Using this application requires that your school or district is set up with Clever. If you don't have Clever, ask your school or district technology team to sign up at clever.com/signup.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ball Chatham at 3.7 against Clever's 2.7. Ball Chatham also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). Clever's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 29 months) and ratings volume (10K vs 16). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Ball Chatham holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Clever has 10K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Ball Chatham's written reviews are positive against 33% of Clever's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ball Chatham ships an update every 29 months, Clever every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ball Chatham | Clever |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (16 ratings) — better | 2.7 (10K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 33.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 10K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 29 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #40 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BALL CHATHAM COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICT 5 | Clever Inc. |
Customer experience
Ball Chatham
Clever
Bugs and requests
Ball Chatham
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Clever
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes or freezes frequently
- Compatibility issues with older devices or operating systems
Requested features
3 requests- Allow login without badge
- Improve mobile functionality and app experience
- Provide more engaging and customizable learning content
In-app purchases
Ball Chatham
No in-app purchases
Clever
No in-app purchases
