Teachstone vs Learning Genie for Educators
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!
Learning Genie for Educators
This app helps early childhood educators create evidence-based learning portfolios and engage families. It allows for tracking developmental observations, sharing media with parents, and managing classrooms. Data from assessments can be used to plan individualized lessons.
- Create evidence-based learning portfolios
- Track developmental observations with tags
- Share media and reminders with parents
- Plan individualized lesson plans
- Manage classrooms and import data
- Download portfolio reports
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Learning Genie provides innovative mobile and web applications for early childhood educators to create evidence-based learning progress portfolios and engage families in children’s learning. Use data from authentic assessments to plan individualized lesson plans. Key features of Learning Genie Educator app: 1. Use portfolio tags to track and organize children’s developmental observations and assessment evidence. While Learning Genie includes a variety of Early Learning Standards across 50 states in the U.S. and around the world, we can also provide customization for your school’s assessment framework. The portfolio dashboard also helps educators track their progress toward completing assessments. 2. Share videobooks, photos, learning media videos, event reminders, and more with parents in real time through the app. a) Book and learning media features provide opportunities for parents to reinforce their children’s learning at home through songs, videobooks, parenting tips, etc.. b) Teachers or administrators can send reports to individuals or any group of children. c) The reminder feature will auto-sync to families’ mobile calendar to remind them about important events. 3. Administrators and teachers can manage classrooms, import children and parents with ease, and download portfolio reports in PDF form. 4. School admins and teachers can manage classrooms, import children and parents with ease and download portfolio reports in PDF form.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Learning Genie for Educators at 73% against Teachstone's 0%. Learning Genie for Educators also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 9 months). 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.
Learning Genie for Educators holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learning Genie for Educators has 492 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 73% of Learning Genie for Educators's.
Teachstone ships an update every 9 months, Learning Genie for Educators every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Teachstone | Learning Genie for Educators |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) | 4.8 (492 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 73.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 492 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 weeks — 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 | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teachstone Training LLC | Learning Genie Inc |
Customer experience
Teachstone
Learning Genie for Educators
In-app purchases
Teachstone
No in-app purchases
Learning Genie for Educators
No in-app purchases
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