Record vs MyTeachingStrategies®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Record
This platform allows professionals to record, analyze, and share their practice using video for personal development. It focuses on reflection and improvement through visual feedback.
- Video recording for practice analysis
- Professional development tools
- Practice reflection
- Sharing of practice videos
- Online platform
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IRIS Connect is an online professional development platform that empowers its users to reflect on, analyse and share practice through the use of video.
MyTeachingStrategies®
Easily document children's learning moments with photos, videos, and notes. Tag observations with objectives and share them securely with families. Track attendance and generate daily reports for record-keeping and communication.
- Capture photos, videos, and text notes
- Tag observations with objectives and ratings
- Securely share documentation with families
- Upload to SmartTeach platform
- Track child and staff attendance
- Create daily reports
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Capture the moment, set preliminary levels, and share children’s “Aha!” moments with their families directly from the MyTeachingStrategies® app! With MyTeachingStrategies®, you can: - Capture photos, videos, and text notes. - Tag your capture with objectives, dimensions, and preliminary ratings. - Share captured documentation with families while simultaneously uploading it to SmartTeach! - Track attendance for children and staff. - Create daily reports for record keeping and parent communication. Security/Confidentiality To maintain security and confidentiality, all documentation captured in the app remains within the app until sent to SmartTeach / Tadpoles®. Any photos or videos taken within the app will not mix with your personal camera roll. Files captured using the app cannot be sent anywhere other than to SmartTeach / Tadpoles®. Who Can Use This App This app is designed for use with the SmartTeach platform. This app is available for Teaching Strategies customers that have both a SmartTeach and a Tadpoles® account. Teaching Strategies customers using SmartTeach without Tadpoles® should use the new Teaching Strategies Teacher mobile app. Customers with only a Tadpoles® account should use the Childcare by Tadpoles® app. About MyTeachingStrategies® The Assess portion of MyTeachingStrategies® is powered by GOLD® and offers a streamlined, simplified way to conduct accurate, authentic, ongoing assessment of children’s development and learning from birth through third grade.
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Verdict
Record and MyTeachingStrategies® both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of Record's written reviews are positive against 9% of MyTeachingStrategies®'s. Record also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). MyTeachingStrategies®'s advantage is ratings volume (32 vs 2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Record against 3.1 for MyTeachingStrategies®. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MyTeachingStrategies® has 32 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Record's written reviews are positive against 9% of MyTeachingStrategies®'s.
Record ships an update fortnightly, MyTeachingStrategies® every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Record | MyTeachingStrategies® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.1 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 9.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 32 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IRIS Connect Ltd | Teaching Strategies, LLC |
Customer experience
Record
MyTeachingStrategies®
In-app purchases
Record
No in-app purchases
MyTeachingStrategies®
No in-app purchases
Questions
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