Classkick vs Inspiration Maps™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classkick
This app allows students to complete assignments digitally and receive instant feedback from teachers and classmates. Educators can create paperless assignments, monitor student progress in real-time, and facilitate peer-to-peer learning. It aims to increase student feedback and reduce grading time.
- Create paperless assignments
- Real-time student work monitoring
- Instant teacher feedback
- Anonymous peer-to-peer help
- Work at own pace
- Ask for help privately
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Classkick is a free app that students work on and get help instantly from their teacher and peers. Students work on assignments with their Chromebooks, laptops, or iPads, while getting help from teachers and peers instantly. Teachers create assignments, see all their students’ work in real-time, and give LOTS of student feedback. Best of all, students can help each other anonymously. Using Classkick, feedback to students increases by 300% and grading time is cut in half. “Classkick is every teacher’s dream.” - Lynne Shalman, Chapin School “Students love Classkick...it was magic!” - Greg Port, Seton College TEACHERS... - CREATE paperless assignments using existing worksheets, audio, video or web content. - SEE every students’ work simultaneously. - GIVE instant feedback when it is most important. - FACILITATE peer-to-peer feedback and learning. STUDENTS... - WORK at their own pace and even on their own time. - ASK for help privately. - HELP their peers. USE IT... - in class or at home. - in traditional or flipped classrooms. - as a group together or on your own time individually. FOR… - assignments - quizzes - station work - do nows/exit slips - guided practice - independent practice - homework
Inspiration Maps™
Create visual learning tools like diagrams, graphic organizers, and outlines with ease. Brainstorm ideas, organize concepts, and strengthen understanding through visual thinking techniques. Personalize your creations with images, colors, and more.
- Build diagrams and graphic organizers
- Brainstorm ideas with RapidFire
- Organize concepts with drag and drop
- Strengthen understanding with visual thinking
- Write notes and plan visually
- Personalize with images and colors
- Transform diagrams to outlines
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Welcome to Inspiration Maps™, the most intuitive and powerful visual learning app on the iPad. Build beautiful diagrams, graphic organizers and outlines with ease! Getting organized has never been this simple. ________ What’s the difference between ‘INSPIRATION MAPS’ and ‘INSPIRATION MAPS VPP’? ‘Inspiration Maps’ allows you to create up to five documents to test the functionality of the app for free before using in-app purchase to upgrade to full, unlimited function. ‘Inspiration Maps VPP’ gives you all the features available in the Inspiration Maps upgrade without having to use in-app purchase to access them. ‘Inspiration Maps VPP’ exists to simplify the process for educators purchasing through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program (VPP) for Education. ________ With Inspiration Maps, you can... BUILD DIAGRAMS & OTHER GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS WITH EASE Create concept maps, cause and effect diagrams, process flows, family trees and more! Getting started couldn’t be easier: Simply double tap a blank space on your canvas to create a new idea symbol. Start from scratch or from one of the many built-in templates in language arts, history, science or thinking & planning! BRAINSTORM IDEAS Harness your own creativity - there’s nothing like using Inspiration Maps’ quick-brainstorming tool RapidFire(R) to capture your ideas as fast as they come to you. Never lose track of a great idea again! GET ORGANIZED Simply drag and drop to organize and categorize concepts and ideas. Establish connections with links and connecting phrases. Structure is automatically generated for you when you use Arrange or when you view your diagram as an outline. STRENGTHEN UNDERSTANDING & BUILD RETENTION Use proven visual thinking and learning techniques to brainstorm ideas, explore and explain relationships, and integrate new knowledge with what you already know. Inspiration Maps encourages deeper, more critical thinking and that improves creativity, comprehension and retention. WRITE, TAKE NOTES & PLAN Use visual diagrams or written outlines to take notes and add details. Inspiration Maps turns static outlines into dynamic, rich writing structures. Expand on your work in Diagram View or Outline View, then export to a writing app to complete your projects. PERSONALIZE & BEAUTIFY Your diagrams and outlines are entirely customizable - change background colors, line colors, link styles, fonts, add more! Add graphics from the built-in symbol library, the internet, or your own camera roll. Features: - 1500+ searchable graphic library - Create unlimited diagrams & outlines* - Record & attach audio - Diagrams transform to outlines and back again - Personalize with images, colors, shapes, arrow styles, and backgrounds - Refine layout with align, nudge, spacing controls or auto-arrange - Use images from the web or the iPad camera - Attach notes to any item - Add hyperlinks - Diagrams save instantly - Built-in templates support subjects across the curriculum - Create your own templates* - Add written or audio instructions to any document - Import & export documents between Inspiration Maps & Inspiration 9.2 for PC/Mac* - Share files with other apps on your iPad* - Share files with other iPads via Dropbox, AirDrop, iCloud or iTunes* - Additional templates available in French, Spanish & UK English - Localized in French, Spanish & UK English *Feature available upon purchase of Inspiration Maps VPP. In Inspiration Maps, features is available after using in-app purchase to upgrade to full function. ________________ VOLUME PURCHASE PROGRAM (VPP) FOR EDUCATION To receive the discount available to buyers purchasing 20 apps or more through Apple’s Volume Purchase Program for Education, purchase ‘Inspiration Maps VPP’ (NOT ‘Inspiration Maps’). ________________ OTHERS ARE SAYING “Easy and fun to use. Highly recommended for students and teachers.” - Toni Krasnic, edShelf ** 2013 CODiE Finalist ** **2012 Tech&Learning Award of Excellence Winner**
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Classkick at none against Inspiration Maps™'s 1. Classkick also leads on ratings volume (727 vs 49). Inspiration Maps™'s advantage is review sentiment (56% vs 33%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ads 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. Inspiration Maps™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Classkick asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.1 for Classkick against 3.0 for Inspiration Maps™. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Classkick has 727 ratings behind it against 49, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Classkick's written reviews are positive against 56% of Inspiration Maps™'s.
| Parameter | Classkick | Inspiration Maps™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (727 ratings) — better | 3.0 (49 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.1% of reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 727 — better | 49 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 272 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Classwork Co | Diagramming Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Classkick
Inspiration Maps™
Bugs and requests
Classkick
Reported bugs
3 issues- Assignments not loading properly
- Inability to save or access work
- Incompatibility with newer devices/OS
Requested features
4 requests- Add split-screen support
- Improve text/writing controls
- Better Apple Pencil integration
- Enhance stability and performance
Inspiration Maps™
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Classkick
No in-app purchases
Inspiration Maps™
- Upgrade to Full Function$9.99
Questions
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