NewsMaker vs Mosyle School
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NewsMaker
Create and share your own video news with this comprehensive tool. Features include a teleprompter, voiceover capabilities, animated intros, and virtual accessories. Collaborate with friends remotely and host your videos on a personal news channel.
- Teleprompter for scripts
- Voiceover for videos and images
- Animated trailer library
- Background music overlay
- Virtual accessories
- Remote collaboration
- Personal news channel
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NewsMaker is a tool that lets you create video news. It is also an online platform that lets you share your videos in your very own NewsMaker channel. As a video-creation tool, NewsMaker provides a rich set of features: 1. You can read your script from the teleprompter. 2. You can voiceover videos and images. 3. You can use the animated trailer videos in the library as an opening to your video. 4. You can overlay background music in your news segments. 5. You can put virtual glasses and hat on yourself. 6. You can collaborate remotely with your friends to produce your video news together, regardless of where they are located. And many more… As an online platform, NewsMaker allows you to have your own news channel to share your video news privately with your friends or followers. NewsMaker is ideal to be used in schools, as a tool to allow any student to create school morning news easily. It can also be used as a tool to improve language and presentation skills as NewsMaker is neither grade-level or content specific. If you have any queries, please contact us at support@teevers.com.
Mosyle School
This tool simplifies the management of Apple devices for educational institutions, enabling secure student device usage for learning. It offers robust classroom management features to minimize distractions and enhance student focus, while providing IT staff and teachers with shared control and real-time insights.
- Apple device deployment and configuration
- Classroom distraction elimination
- Student focus monitoring
- Internet access regulation
- App management and installation
- Real-time device inventory and reports
- Shared IT and teacher management
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Mosyle School is an MDM solution designed exclusively for Education that streamlines the Apple device management process, simplifies iPad, Mac and Apple TV deployments for Schools and Districts, while ensuring students safely utilize devices for learning. It’s easy to set up, manage, and maintain, while being powerful enough to create the ideal learning environment for any School or District. THE BEST MDM SOLUTION TO GET THE MOST OUT OF ALL OF APPLE’S PROGRAM AND OS FEATURES: - Configure all management settings with Mosyle School to harness all Apple’s education features and deployment programs; - Connect Mosyle School with Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Program Purchase to assign devices, apps, and configure device settings, apps, and books; - Get the most out of Apple’s Shared iPad and the Classroom App for iPad; UNIQUE & EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT TOOLS: - Quickly eliminate any distractions from the devices; - Ensure student focus and attention is within the intended educational application; - Easily assess students during class to evaluate student progress; - Check compliance of student devices and solve any issues right in the classroom; - Customize and regulate student Internet access during class time; - Select apps allowed during class and remotely install them on student devices. AN ALWAYS-ON, CLOUD-BASED & SCALABLE SOLUTION TO SIMPLIFY DEPLOYMENTS: - Quickly take inventory and view reports of your device fleet in real time; - Shared management between IT Staff and Teachers; - Create time-based policies and restrictions – to work whether it’s before, during or after school; - Receive notifications when specific events occur across the managed device fleet; - Implement in any type of deployment model (BYOD, School Owned, 1:1 and Shared); - Rapid and easy device enrollment processes and flows; - Automatic load-balancing and fault tolerance across multiple Tier 3 data centers, with a 99.9% uptime guarantee. *Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Mosyle School is designed to embrace and fully integrate with Apple’s new education features, and deployment programs (Apple School Manager, Device Enrollment Program and Volume Purchase Program). We're so excited with all the new possibilities we decided to include all necessary configuration with them in our basic, free plan. No hidden costs!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: NewsMaker at 3.6 against Mosyle School's 1.8. NewsMaker also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 13%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.4). Mosyle School's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (92 vs 14). On price, update cadence 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. NewsMaker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mosyle School asks for nothing beyond the download.
NewsMaker holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mosyle School has 92 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of NewsMaker's written reviews are positive against 13% of Mosyle School's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NewsMaker | Mosyle School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (14 ratings) — better | 1.8 (92 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 13.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 92 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teevers Pte. Ltd. | Mosyle |
Customer experience
NewsMaker
Mosyle School
Bugs and requests
NewsMaker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mosyle School
Reported bugs
6 issues- Device management starts randomly
- Apps disappear and cannot be recovered
- App won't open during Zoom meetings
- App crashes everything
- App rearranges apps alphabetically
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- App slows down device speed
Requested features
7 requests- Allow users to uninstall
- Allow users to keep apps in original place
- Add more apps to the store
- Admin console for QR codes
- Allow users to play games during free periods/lunch
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- Fix app rearrangement issue
- Allow users to control screen recording permissions
In-app purchases
NewsMaker
- 1-Year NewsMaker Subscription$19.99
Mosyle School
No in-app purchases
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