Promethean vs Expeditions Pro
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"
Expeditions Pro
Explore immersive virtual reality tours and create your own educational expeditions. This app offers offline access, annotation tools, and the ability to import and view public or professional tours. Future updates will include video playback and playlist creation.
- Free VR tours
- Create custom tours
- Import existing tours
- Offline functionality
- Annotation tools
- Classroom tour leading
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Expeditions Pro provides Free VR Tours and Expeditions in fully immersive Virtual Reality. The same great features you are used to – Classroom content, working offline, instant annotation and simple touch interface that worked so well. * Import previously created Tours * Create your own Tours * View public and professional Tours * Lead Tours in the classroom Plus we’ll be adding a number of great new features education have been asking for year, such as Video Playback and playlist creation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Expeditions Pro at 75% against Promethean's 18%. Expeditions Pro also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Promethean's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 18 months) and ratings volume (60 vs 11). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Expeditions Pro holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Promethean has 60 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 18% of Promethean's written reviews are positive against 75% of Expeditions Pro's.
Promethean ships an update every 4 months, Expeditions Pro every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Promethean | Expeditions Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (60 ratings) | 3.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.6% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 18 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Promethean | Singleton Technology Ltd |
Customer experience
Promethean
Expeditions Pro
In-app purchases
Promethean
No in-app purchases
Expeditions Pro
No in-app purchases
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