Pearson e vs PowerLesson 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pearson e
Access and download Pearson textbooks for offline study on tablets. Features include note-taking, voice recording, digital exercises, and classroom management tools for teachers.
- Download e-Textbooks for offline use
- Note-taking with text, voice, and drawings
- Digital exercises with auto-marking
- Interactive tools for peer evaluation
- Classroom management for teachers
- Synchronize notes across devices
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Pearson e-bookshelf enables students and teachers to access Pearson textbooks on the go. These e-Textbooks can be downloaded onto any tablet devices for offline usage, enabling users to access them in the classroom or at home, with or without Internet connection. Pearson e-bookshelf provides users with various effective teaching and learning tools such as note-taking, voice recording and digital exercises with auto-marking function. It is also equipped with interactive tools that promote peer evaluation and collaborative learning. What’s more, Pearson e-Textbook comes with the handy classroom management function that enables teachers to monitor, supervise and guide students’ learning and use of tablet devices in the classroom. Features: • Download e-Textbooks for offline usage • Add, edit, highlight and share notes (text, voice, drawings, weblinks) • Access effective learning and teaching tools specially designed for e-Textbooks • Manage students’ usage of tablet devices in the classroom • Synchronise your notes added to the e-Textbooks across different supported devices
PowerLesson 2
This app helps educators deliver engaging lessons by projecting content, conducting polls, and facilitating discussions. It offers real-time student response analysis for personalized learning and allows for recording lessons for later review and resource sharing.
- Screen projection to student devices
- Instant student polling
- Audio/video recording
- Real-time response analysis
- Lesson content recording
- Resource sharing among colleagues
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PowerLesson 2 enables teachers to conduct lessons efficiently by projecting their screens to student computers, inviting students for instant polling, discussion, audio / video recording, etc. Real-time analysis on students’ response helps teachers understand common answers / errors students make. Thus, it can cater to learner diversity and foster a close interaction between teachers and students. With PowerLesson 2, all the lesson contents can also be recorded. Therefore, students can revise the contents after school while teachers can edit and reuse the lesson plan, or even share the resources among colleagues.
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Verdict
Pearson e and PowerLesson 2 both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 37% of PowerLesson 2's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pearson e's. PowerLesson 2 also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 Pearson e against 3.0 for PowerLesson 2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Pearson e's written reviews are positive against 37% of PowerLesson 2's.
Pearson e ships an update every 3 months, PowerLesson 2 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pearson e | PowerLesson 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 36.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pearson Education Asia Limited | eClass Limited |
Customer experience
Pearson e
PowerLesson 2
In-app purchases
Pearson e
No in-app purchases
PowerLesson 2
No in-app purchases
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