Arility vs Augmented Classroom

Arility is a free Android and iOS app providing augmented-reality safety education for children in classrooms, homes and experiential learning centres. Lessons combine 360-degree visuals, sound effects, AR characters and interactive scenarios where students make choices that affect outcomes. Teachers use a real-time dashboard to supervise individuals, pairs, groups or whole classes, including multiple classes simultaneously. Pre, post and extension questions assess learning, and emailed reports link student outcomes to curriculum outcomes and include answers. Activities address Australian and UK curriculum outcomes, with packs covering health, flood, driving, road safety, Constable Care safety school, driveway safety and small wheeled devices. The app works without internet after download, but sharing pictures and reports requires connectivity. Lessons require a printed Arility marker, downloadable in A4, A3, A2, A1 or A0 sizes. Compatible devices are Apple iPads, iPad minis and Android tablets; mobiles do not currently work. Arility says class photos are emailed to teachers and not stored on its servers, while other collected data is retained indefinitely.

Augmented Classroom is a platform for interactive, curriculum-aligned K–6 lessons, using AI and augmented reality. Teachers can choose Explore, Create, Collaborate, and Quiz modes, with 2D, 3D, and marker-based AR content. Listed subjects include maths, art and creativity, language, technology, science, and social studies. An AI voice assistant supports 13+ languages, and a lesson-plan library is included; Basic has limited lesson plans, while Pro offers unlimited lesson plans. The platform runs on web, Windows, iOS, and Android. Basic is a single-user educator account for one device, without student join-in access; a listed trial plan supports up to 30 students. The company says it does not collect student data and that pupils are not processed or identified. Its compliance information describes European hosting, TLS 1.2 data transfers, AES256 encryption at rest, and practices addressing GDPR, COPPA, FERPA, and the EU AI Act. Pricing lists a free demo, a 14-day trial, a monthly plan at $1.99 a month per student, and a yearly plan at $4.50 a year per student, with the teacher account free.