Google Classroom vs Minga
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Google Classroom
This app streamlines educational workflows for teachers and students. It facilitates paperless assignment creation, distribution, and grading, while enhancing communication and organization. Students can track assignments and receive feedback, and teachers can manage classes and provide real-time updates.
- Paperless assignment creation and grading
- Automatic document copying for students
- Organized Drive folders for assignments
- Real-time feedback and grades
- Instant announcements and class discussions
- Mobile access for on-the-go management
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Classroom is a free service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and outside of schools. Classroom saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized. Classroom is designed to help teachers create, collect, and grade assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized. Students can keep track of what’s due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom. With the mobile app for iOS, students and teachers can view their classes and communicate with their classmates in real time. Students can open their assignments and work on them right from their iPhone or iPad. Teachers can keep track of who has turned in work and grade the assignment - at school or on the go. Students and teachers receive notifications when they have new content in Classroom, so they are always up to date. There are many benefits of using Classroom: Easy to set up Teachers can add students directly or share a code with their class to join. It takes just minutes to set up. Saves time The simple, paperless assignment workflow allows teachers to create, review, and grade assignments quickly, all in one place. Improves organization Students can see all of their assignments on an assignments page, and all class materials (e.g., documents, photos, and videos) are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive. Enhances communication Classroom allows teachers to send announcements and start class discussions instantly. Students can share resources with each other or provide answers to questions on the stream. Secure Like the rest of Google Workspace for Education services, Classroom contains no ads, never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes. Permissions Notice: Camera: Needed to allow the user to take photos or videos and post them to Classroom. Microphone: Needed to enable audio capture for recording videos to be posted to Classroom. Photos: Needed to allow the user to attach photos or videos to Classroom. Photos or videos posted to Classroom will be stored on Google servers in order to show them in Classroom.
Minga
This app digitizes school operations, replacing manual tasks with an all-in-one campus management solution. It simplifies hall passes, check-ins, behavior tracking, and attendance, freeing up staff time for student success.
- Digital Student ID
- Digital Hall Pass
- Community & Communication
- Check In
- Behavior & Rewards
- FlexTime
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Schools across the country are embracing Minga for streamlined campus management. Minga is your all-in-one solution for bringing school operations into the digital age. Forget about the old days of paper, spreadsheets, and time-consuming manual tasks. With Minga, things like hall passes, school check in, tardy slips, behavior reports, rewards, and attendance are all a breeze. This means less busy work for staff and more time spent on helping students succeed. Minga’s seamlessly integrated modules include: • Digital Student ID • Digital Hall Pass • Community & Communication • Check In • Behavior & Rewards • FlexTime Use Minga to: • Consolidate software, reduce costs • Boost campus security and efficiency • Simplify Hallway Management • Foster positive student behavior • Manage and Reduce Tardies • Streamline communication and events • Integrate with SIS • Leverage data-rich reports And much more…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minga at 3.0 against Google Classroom's 2.1. Minga also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Google Classroom's advantage is chart position (#7 vs #208) and review sentiment (25% vs 12%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Minga holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37K and 7.7K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Google Classroom's written reviews are positive against 12% of Minga's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Google Classroom ships an update fortnightly, Minga every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Google Classroom | Minga |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (37K ratings) | 3.0 (7.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.4% of reviews — better | 12.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 37K — better | 7.7K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #7 — better | #208 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 202 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Change Gamers | |
Customer experience
Google Classroom
Minga
User reviews
Google Classroom
From 37K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Helpful for organizing assignments
- 💡 Useful for online/remote learning
- 🤝 Good for student-teacher communication
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and unreliable at times
- ⏱️ Slow loading and performance issues
- 📧 Excessive and delayed notifications
- 🔍 Lack of search functionality
Minga
From 7.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for school schedules and updates
- 👍 Helpful for students to interact with school
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and confusing interface
- 🔒 Invasive permissions and privacy concerns
- ⏱️ Overly restrictive time limits for bathroom breaks
- 🚫 Unnecessary and controlling for students
Bugs and requests
Google Classroom
Reported bugs
3 issues- Assignments disappearing or not properly syncing
- Inability to edit or update assignments after posting
- Inconsistent behavior across devices and platforms
Requested features
4 requests- Add a dark mode option
- Improve notification control and customization
- Implement a better missing assignments/to-do list
- Allow more flexibility in class organization and archiving
Minga
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes and loading issues
- Unreliable connectivity on school WiFi
- Inconsistent functionality across devices
Requested features
3 requests- Allow more flexible bathroom break times
- Improve app stability and performance
- Provide more privacy and less monitoring of students
In-app purchases
Google Classroom
No in-app purchases
Minga
No in-app purchases
Questions
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