Teachers leave ClassDojo for different reasons: a school wants desk-level behaviour records, a district wants a buyer it can contract with, or a staff room wants lesson delivery and parent contact in one place. The alternatives below range from points and seating tools to messaging services and device oversight.
Short answer: The first three alternatives to ClassDojo in our classroom management software ranking are Bloomz, Class Charts and Seesaw. Smaller vendors fill the top three places where the category offers them, and the household names start at place 4. Choose Bloomz if a school wants a written price structure and a locked rate for the contract term. Every one of the 11 products below comes from Best Classroom Management Software in 2026, with a note on how it departs from ClassDojo.
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Pricing: Free for teachers according to the home page; school and district prices not seen
Established in: Not stated by the vendor
Built for: Teachers who want behaviour points and a family feed without a purchase order
Not for: Schools needing screen monitoring or device control for students
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Why buyers look past ClassDojo
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Translation is advertised at three different sizes
ClassDojo's home page says messages are translated automatically into 190+ languages. Its schools page says 130+ in one place and its FAQ says 100+. A school that serves families in a minority language should test that language with real messages instead of trusting any of the three figures.
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Feedback points do not last beyond a year
The privacy policy says feedback points older than 12 months are automatically deleted, or de-identified and aggregated. That suits a privacy reading, but a school that wants a behaviour record spanning several years, for a pastoral meeting or a transfer, has to keep it somewhere else.
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Little is said about school-level administration
The schools page lists two-way messaging with quiet hours, read receipts and scheduled posts, plus school-wide values. It mentions no integrations, single sign-on or rostering, and points to schools@classdojo.com for details. District IT teams comparing against a managed platform will have to ask before they can tick those boxes.
your school already uses Workspace for Education and assignments matter more than points
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What each one does differently
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Bloomz
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Bloomz publishes its structure openly: four yearly per-student plans called Essentials, Premium, Complete and 360, with separate add-ons for payments, an admissions CRM and a per-staff plan named Grow. Every tier still ends in a custom quote, smaller schools meet annual minimums, and prices stay fixed for the contract term. We read pricing pages only, so classroom features are unconfirmed.
Switch from ClassDojo if a school wants a written price structure and a locked rate for the contract term.
Class Charts, a Tes product, concentrates on behaviour records: points and reports sit beside seating plans, attendance, detentions, homework and wellbeing insights, and parents get their own app. The buyer deals with a publisher whose navigation lists other Tes services. Cost comes only through sales or a demo, and the pricing link we followed ended at a login.
Switch from ClassDojo if pastoral staff need seating plans, detentions and reports tied to the points they already award.
Seesaw is sold only to schools and districts, never to individual teachers, in three packages that show no prices and route every enquiry to sales. In exchange, student activities, teaching content and family messages share one platform, AI tools help create and adapt activities, and district administrators get data controls. No trial is mentioned on the pages we read.
Switch from ClassDojo if the district would rather standardise one licensed platform than let teachers pick their own apps.
Remind concentrates on one job, messaging. Remind Chat sends group and one-to-one messages in 90+ languages with automatic translation, and signing up costs nothing. The company now sits inside the ParentSquare family. Remind Hub, aimed at organisations outside K-12, keeps message history logs; its price is not stated on the pages we read, and no country is given.
Switch from ClassDojo if you only need families reached in their own language and can drop points and stories.
Pear Deck runs interactive lessons where students answer on their own screens. Teacher Free costs nothing, and Teacher Premium, billed yearly with an educator discount, adds the Teacher Dashboard, Draggable and Drawing responses, and Reflect & Review. School and district plans are custom and include a District Library; LMS integrations may carry fees. Behaviour tracking is outside its scope.
Switch from ClassDojo if what hurts is lesson participation, and a free teacher tier is the starting point.
ParentSquare is a district purchase. Three packages, Engage, Engage Premium and Engage 360, bring messaging, websites and voice calls together, and add-ons include Smart Sites, Payments, Virtual Phone and Attendance Plus. Each package says Contact sales with no price, billing basis or limit shown, and no trial is mentioned. Remind belongs to the same family.
Switch from ClassDojo if a district office wants one channel for every family, with websites and phone included.
Hapara shows teachers how students use Chrome or Edge, blocks harmful or distracting sites, flags wellness warning signs and displays hall passes, with links to Google Classroom and Workspace for Education. It is owned by Cordance Operations LLC in the United States. The home page lists tailored options but no prices or trial, so a quote is needed before any comparison.
Switch from ClassDojo if the classroom runs on Chromebooks and the concern is what students do on screen.
Kami annotates documents: more than 40 tools work on PDFs and other files, connected to Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas and Teams. The Basic plan is free, and new teacher accounts receive a 30-day trial. Its pages give two different sets of Pro and Work figures, so we quote none. Founded in New Zealand, it became a US company after a 2024 acquisition.
Switch from ClassDojo if worksheets and marking are the daily routine and behaviour points are secondary.
LanSchool comes from Stoneware, Inc. in Morrisville, North Carolina, and is backed by Lenovo. LanSchool Air is hosted in the cloud, LanSchool Classic on local servers, and both name messaging, screen sharing and safety filters, with a Google Classroom integration. A trial is available and eligible Lenovo computers carry a licence; tiers and prices are not shown.
Switch from ClassDojo if the school wants a teacher view of student screens and can choose cloud or local hosting.
GoGuardian is a family of separate products: Admin filters the web, Teacher handles classroom management with one-to-one chat, Beacon uses AI to spot warning signs, and Hall Pass and Discover cover passes and software licences. Cost follows enrolment, contract length and bundling. The pages we read show no trial and no headquarters, so both need asking about directly.
Switch from ClassDojo if a district buys web filtering and student safety alerts together with classroom tools.
Google Classroom assigns and grades work, with practice sets that give AI hints, originality reports, hundreds of connected edtech apps and a student information system link. Its AI tools are free, while the Fundamentals and Plus editions and add-ons show no prices. Classroom analytics are marked coming soon. It belongs to Google's suite, so it works as an add-on to a points tool.
Switch from ClassDojo if your school already uses Workspace for Education and assignments matter more than points.
You want yearly prices you can read before calling sales
Bloomz: It shows four per-student yearly tiers, Essentials, Premium, Complete and 360, and locks prices for the contract term, though each ends in a custom quote.
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You need seating plans and detentions next to behaviour points
Class Charts: It lists points and reports, seating plans, attendance, detentions, homework and a parent app, sold through sales with a demo.
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You want teaching, activities and family messages on one licence
Seesaw: It combines student activities and family communication and adds AI tools to create activities; licences go to schools and districts only.
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You only need to reach families in their own language
Remind: Remind Chat is free to sign up for and translates two-way messages in 90+ languages.
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You want a free tool that makes lessons interactive
Pear Deck: Teacher Free costs nothing, and Teacher Premium adds the Teacher Dashboard and Reflect & Review, billed yearly.
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When ClassDojo is still the right choice
ClassDojo is still the easier pick for a single teacher who wants to start today. Its home page says it is free for teachers, forever, and the schools page repeats zero cost with no limitations or paywalls. It combines class points, a private story for parents, events with reminders, portfolios and a Teacher Toolkit with attendance sheets and timers. Its privacy policy states that student information is never used for third-party advertising and cites iKeepSafe FERPA certification. The optional ClassDojo Plus is aimed at families, not schools, so the classroom product does not depend on it.
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What moving off ClassDojo involves
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Decide what happens to the points history
Feedback points older than 12 months are removed, so the export you can take is short. Decide with your safeguarding lead whether a summary of the past year goes into the new tool or a school record.
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Tell families before the switch
Parents received messages and stories in ClassDojo, so give them a date, the new app name and a note on how their language will be handled. Run both channels side by side for a few weeks.
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Check that the replacement keeps the classroom routine
Points, attendance sheets and timers are daily habits. List which of them your new tool covers, and which stay as a simple sheet, before you remove the old accounts.
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Questions about replacing ClassDojo
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What is the best ClassDojo alternative for a school?
Bloomz heads our list because its yearly per-student tiers are published and the vendor locks prices for the contract term. Class Charts follows for behaviour records and Seesaw for a single licensed platform. All three need a quote for exact costs.
Which alternative gives behaviour points and seating plans?
Class Charts, from Tes, combines points and reports with seating plans, attendance, detentions, homework and a parent app. Prices are given on request, and the site offers a demo.
Is there a free option for family messaging?
Remind Chat is free to sign up for and sends two-way group or one-to-one messages in 90+ languages with automatic translation. It carries no points system or class story.
Can a teacher buy Seesaw alone?
No. The vendor sells licences to schools and districts, and teacher licences are not sold. The packages show no prices, and the route is Talk To Sales.
Does ClassDojo cost anything?
Its home page says it is free for teachers, forever, and the schools page says zero cost for schools and teachers. ClassDojo Plus is an optional family subscription with a 7-day free trial; the page shows no price.
Which options watch student devices?
Hapara covers Chrome and Edge activity with hall passes, LanSchool offers screen sharing in cloud or local versions, and GoGuardian splits filtering, teacher tools and alerts into separate products. All three are quoted.
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Sources
Checked 7 November 2026
ClassDojo home page: Free for teachers forever, 190+ language translation, stories, events, points, portfolios, Teacher Toolkit.
ClassDojo for schools: Zero cost for schools and teachers, two-way messaging with quiet hours and read receipts, 130+ and 100+ language figures, no integrations or SSO mentioned.
ClassDojo Plus: Optional family subscription, 7-day free trial, no price shown, share with up to 3 other grown-ups.
ClassDojo privacy policy: Feedback points older than 12 months deleted or de-identified, no third-party advertising, iKeepSafe FERPA certification, ClassDojo, Inc.
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Checked and edited by Sebastiaan Smits, last on 7 November 2026. The editorial process explains the method.
