Teachstone vs SmartTeach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Teachstone
Record and upload coaching or teaching practice videos for feedback from specialists and coaches. Focus on teacher-child interactions with easy video recording and direct upload functionality.
- Record classroom footage
- Upload video directly
- Notify coaches automatically
- Focus on teacher-child interactions
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With this app, participants in MTP, CLASS Group Coaching (MMCI), and CLASS Master Coaching can easily record their coaching or teaching practice and upload the video to CLASS Specialists and Coaches for feedback. Features: * Record classroom footage with the touch of a button. * Upload video directly to the Teachstone site. * Automatically notify coaches/specialists/trainers when video is uploaded. * Focus on what matters the most: teacher-child interactions!
SmartTeach
This app helps early childhood educators streamline daily classroom tasks. It simplifies documentation, classroom management, and family communication with easy-to-use tools for online and offline use.
- Create documentation and share insights
- View and teach from daily schedule
- Communicate with families
- Save and share photos/videos
- Assess from curriculum resources
- Track attendance and care routines
- Conduct health screenings
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The SmartTeach® app by Teaching Strategies offers early childhood educators an easy and efficient way to quickly complete essential daily tasks on the fly, online, or offline. The SmartTeach app simplifies teaching, documentation, classroom management, and family engagement throughout the day, enabling teachers to make the most of every moment with easy-to-use tools right at their fingertips. The SmartTeach app is accessible to Teachers and Administrators using Teaching Strategies products such as GOLD®, The Creative Curriculum® Cloud, Kickstart LiteracyTM, and Tadpoles®. Download SmartTeach by Teaching Strategies to access our new and improved features & functionality. SmartTeach offers early childhood educators a single app to support all essential classroom tasks, including: Create documentation and share insights with families View and teach directly from your daily schedule, curriculum, activities, and care routines Communicate with families Save & share photos, videos, and other media across devices View & assess from resources like Intentional Teaching Experiences, Skill Development Cards, and Mighty Minutes®* Identify Infant and Toddler children’s developmental level with the Entry Screener to dynamically populate individualized support for each child* Take attendance, move children or staff, and complete name-to-face checks* Track care routines and share Daily Reports with families* Conduct health screenings for children and/or staff* *Feature availability is dependent on which Teaching Strategies products your classroom licenses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartTeach at 4.8 against Teachstone's 2.6. SmartTeach also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (1.2K vs 5). Teachstone's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). 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.
SmartTeach holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartTeach has 1.2K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Teachstone's written reviews are positive against 24% of SmartTeach's.
Teachstone ships an update every 9 months, SmartTeach monthly. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Teachstone | SmartTeach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (1.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 24.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 1.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teachstone Training LLC | Teaching Strategies, Inc. |
Customer experience
Teachstone
SmartTeach
Bugs and requests
Teachstone
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SmartTeach
Reported bugs
4 issues- Screener not working when clicking plus sign
- Inability to log in through app, but able to log in on website
- Delayed or failed message delivery
- Uploaded documentation still showing in app, causing confusion
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to select and apply objectives to multiple pieces of documentation at once
- Add ability to select and delete multiple photos/videos at once
- Add ability to change date on add documentation page
- Add landscape mode support for easier typing
- Improve translation and communication features for ESL families
In-app purchases
Teachstone
No in-app purchases
SmartTeach
No in-app purchases
Questions
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