Promethean vs AP Classroom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Wireless screen sharing
- Panel management for IT admins
- Access to training materials
- Student-teacher interaction
- Panel enrollment and naming
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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"
AP Classroom
This online learning platform offers courses from a physics tutoring school. It provides features like progress tracking, course management, and detailed video playback controls for an enhanced educational experience.
- Login via mobile or email
- Learning progress dashboard
- Course and playlist management
- Advanced video playback controls
- Speed and slow-motion video options
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AP Classroom is online learning platform with courses from Applied Physics (nickname is AP) tutoring school in Thailand.The following are functions of : 1.Log in via Mobile Phone or Email. 2.View Dashboard displays learning progress pie chart. 3.View all your recent and all active courses . 4.View course playlists 5.Playback, including Play/Pause, Forward,Backward(every 30 second),Seek,Play Slow down(0.25x,0.5x,0.7x) or Speed Up(1.5x,2x,3x) ,Volume Control,Full screen Display and Table of Content on streaming video.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Promethean at 2.5 against AP Classroom's 1.6. AP Classroom's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Promethean holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 59 and 39 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 18% of Promethean's written reviews are positive against 25% of AP Classroom's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Promethean ships an update every 4 months, AP Classroom every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Promethean | AP Classroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (59 ratings) — better | 1.6 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 39 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Promethean | Chalit Chathirat |
Customer experience
Promethean
AP Classroom
In-app purchases
Promethean
No in-app purchases
AP Classroom
No in-app purchases









