Konstella vs ACEP engagED
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Konstella
This app facilitates communication and community building for parent organizations like PTAs and PTOs. It enables the creation of announcements, newsletters, volunteer sign-ups, and event postings, while also simplifying fee collection and donations. Parents can also form interest-based social groups to connect with each other.
- Create announcements and newsletters
- Manage volunteer sign-ups
- Organize events
- Collect fees and donations
- Form interest-based social groups
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Konstella streamlines communications and helps parent organizations (i.e. PTA & PTOs) build close-knit parent communities. - By allowing committee chairs and room parents to create short announcements, long newsletters, volunteer sign-up sheets, and events, Konstella streamlines communications and makes school and classroom needs transparent to parents. - By helping parent organizations and room parents collect fees and donations, Konstella makes fundraising easy for treasurers and fundraiser volunteers. - By letting parents create interest-based Social Groups, such as Playdates for parents of young children and Hiking Parents for active parents, Konstella connects parents. This app is only useful if your school is running Konstella.
ACEP engagED
This app is a private online community for emergency physicians to connect, collaborate, and discuss the practice of emergency medicine. It offers a secure space to share ideas, address challenges, and build professional relationships through specialized groups and leadership opportunities.
- Connect with colleagues
- Collaborate on practice issues
- Discuss emergency medicine
- Join Sections and Groups
- Leadership opportunities
- Private and secure space
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ACEP’s engagED online community is the digital home for emergency physicians. Connect, collaborate, and engage with your colleagues to find your niche in the broader EM community and make a meaningful impact on the future of emergency medicine. engagED offers a private and secure space to discuss the business and practice of emergency medicine, share ideas and common challenges, and build lifelong connections through Sections, Member Interest Groups, and leadership opportunities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Konstella at 56% against ACEP engagED's 0%. Konstella also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (780 vs 9). ACEP engagED's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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.
Konstella holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Konstella has 780 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Konstella's written reviews are positive against 0% of ACEP engagED's.
Konstella ships an update every 4 days, ACEP engagED weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Konstella | ACEP engagED |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (780 ratings) — better | 1.8 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 780 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Konstella Inc. | American College of Emergency Physicians |
Customer experience
Konstella
ACEP engagED
Bugs and requests
Konstella
Reported bugs
6 issues- Can't delete an odd committee thread even after leaving the group
- No longer spell check and the bullets/numbers don't work
- Scrolling issues, can't select and copy text, can't bookmark or set aside important messages, can't open links from messages, impossible to organize messages and events
- Impossible to update my kids school, no way to contact Konstella, no way to remove the old profile and add a new one
- Group chat function issues - messages not loading, group disappearing and reappearing
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- App contains features not available via the website; the website contains features not available on the app
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Messages need Like buttons
- Mute button to selectively mute members
- Ability to have dates hyperlinked to iPhone calendar
ACEP engagED
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Konstella
No in-app purchases
ACEP engagED
No in-app purchases
