Comparison

Lightspeed Activate vs Promethean

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Lightspeed Activate

This educational app allows teachers to remotely control classroom audio systems, listen to student groups, and communicate with them. It also enables recording of teaching and learning moments for later review.

Highlights
  • Control classroom audio system
  • Listen to student groups
  • Communicate with student groups
  • Record audio and video
  • Gain insights into student learning
Features
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Lightspeed Activate app pairs with a Lightspeed Instructional Audio system to control the Activate System, record video and audio in the classroom, and other advanced features. From their iOS device, teachers can simultaneously select individual 2-way audio Pods to listen into student small group collaboration, gaining critical insights to the learning process. Teachers can also speak to individual groups and enable student sharing from the palm of the hand. Finally, within the app, teachers can capture audio and video recordings of critical teaching and learning moments in the classroom.

About

Promethean

This app facilitates classroom collaboration by allowing students and teachers to interact with interactive panels wirelessly. IT administrators can also manage panel enrollment and updates. It offers screen sharing and access to training resources.

Highlights
  • Wireless screen sharing
  • Panel management for IT admins
  • Access to training materials
  • Student-teacher interaction
  • Panel enrollment and naming
Features
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Put classroom collaboration into the hands of students and teachers and panel management into the hands of school IT administrators. The Promethean mobile app is designed for teachers and students to interact with Promethean ActivPanels from anywhere in the classroom. Teachers have the ability to sign in and access their Promethean profile. For IT administrators, the Promethean mobile app helps to enroll ActivPanels into their panel management to make updates easier. Students can • Wirelessly share the screen from their mobile device to ActivPanels with Screen Share or Screen Share in Promethean ActivSuite. • No sign-in required. Teachers can • Wirelessly share the screen from their mobile device to ActivPanels with Screen Share or Screen Share in Promethean ActivSuite. • Access Promethean user tutorials and training materials on Learn Promethean directly through the app.* • Sign in to their Promethean account to access Promethean ActivSuite and sign in to their ActivPanel 9. IT Administrators can • Sign in to their Promethean account. • Wirelessly share the screen from their mobile device to ActivPanels with Screen Share or Screen Share in Promethean ActivSuite. • Access Promethean user tutorials and training materials on Learn Promethean directly through the app* • Enroll ActivPanels into a school organization, name the panel, associate it with groups and verify that it was enrolled successfully. NOTES: • The Promethean app requires a device where a Promethean account can be accessed or Promethean ActivPanel Elements (Nickel, Cobalt, Titanium) series panels with Software Release (SR) 3.2 or newer. • Panel sign in is only available for ActivPanel 9 series. • Screen Share must be enabled on ActivPanel to utilize Screen Share from the Promethean app. * Dependent upon language"

Screenshots

Lightspeed Activate4 screens
Promethean4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Lightspeed Activate at 4.3 against Promethean's 2.5. Lightspeed Activate also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Promethean's advantage is review sentiment (18% vs 0%) and ratings volume (59 vs 6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lightspeed Activate holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Promethean has 59 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Lightspeed Activate's written reviews are positive against 18% of Promethean's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightspeed Activate ships an update every 7 months, Promethean every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Lightspeed Activate versus Promethean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightspeed ActivatePromethean
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (6 ratings) — better2.5 (59 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews17.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings659 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLightspeed Technologies Inc.Promethean

Customer experience

Lightspeed Activate

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Promethean

All ratings59 ratings
Positive33.9%
Neutral8.5%
Negative57.6%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive17.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative79.4%

In-app purchases

None

Lightspeed Activate

No in-app purchases

None

Promethean

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightspeed Activate free?
Lightspeed Activate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Promethean free?
Promethean is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lightspeed Activate or Promethean?
Lightspeed Activate is rated higher. Lightspeed Activate averages 4.3 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Promethean averages 2.5 from 59 ratings.
Do Lightspeed Activate or Promethean have ads?
Neither Lightspeed Activate nor Promethean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lightspeed Activate or Promethean?
Lightspeed Activate ships an update every 7 months, and Promethean every 4 months. Most recently, Lightspeed Activate was updated on October 4, 2026 and Promethean on October 16, 2026.

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