ClassPaws

Anyone who has run a classroom knows how the reward chart goes. The stickers run out, the chart peels off the wall, and by March nobody remembers what ten stars were supposed to earn. Points apps fixed the bookkeeping years ago, but points on their own can feel like a scoreboard.

ClassPaws gives the points somewhere to go. A teacher awards them for good choices, they turn into XP and coins, and each student's virtual pet grows from an egg through five stages. The coins buy food, accessories and room decorations in a pet shop. The home page shows a calico cat, a Labrador and an emperor penguin among the pets, which gives you a fair idea of the mood.

You create a free account, name a class and type in a display name for each pupil. ClassPaws then issues a class code and a PIN per student, and that pair is how kids sign in. No student email is involved. Around that sit the everyday teacher tools: class lists, groups, seating plans and a display view for the shared screen.

Two extras are worth knowing about. A separate classroom tools page has a timer, a random name picker, a prize wheel and a certificate maker, among others, and they open without signing in. That's a nice touch if all you want is a name picker for tomorrow. There's also an AI quiz generator that builds multiple-choice quizzes from a topic and a grade level. It needs a teacher sign-in. Its own page asks you to enter a topic only, with no student names, and to check the answers for accuracy and age suitability before students see them.

The free plan covers one class of up to 60 students, with pets and rewards. Pro is $6 a month and Lifetime is $149 once. Both lift the class and student limits and add the full pet shop, classroom quizzes and a battle mode.

This is software that holds children's names, so read the privacy policy first. According to that policy, updated November 8, 2026, ClassPaws keeps each pupil's display name, attendance, reward and pet progress, and quiz responses. Sign-in and storage run on Supabase, the app is hosted on Oracle Cloud in Brazil, and Cloudflare and Stripe handle delivery and payments. An AI provider, not named, receives the material for an AI request. There's no fixed retention period, and deactivating a pupil or class keeps the underlying records, so deleting them means asking support. Anyone with a class display link can see the names on it.

Neither the policy nor the terms mentions COPPA, FERPA or GDPR. The terms leave it to you to use the app with the permissions your school and the law require, so check with your school before a real roster goes in. The operator is listed as fanpengfei, trading as ClassPaws, in Hong Kong, and paid checkout is initially available in Hong Kong only.

If your class would work harder for a penguin than for a sticker, the free plan is enough to try it with one group for a few weeks.