TSIC vs Cambridge Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TSIC
This app connects mentors with students for academic support and guidance. Mentors can log sessions and communicate, while students can confirm schedules, share progress, and chat securely. It facilitates goal management and video calls to foster student success and scholarship opportunities.
- Log mentor sessions
- Communicate with students/mentors
- Confirm session dates
- Upload and share progress
- Manage goals and tasks
- Video chat
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Mentor App: Description: Take Stock in Children’s premier mentor app allows mentors to log sessions and communicate with their students. Students can confirm session dates and interact with their mentor and TSIC Affiliate Program in a secure and live environment. Mentee App: If you’re ready to take control of your future, Take Stock in Children can help by providing you with the motivation, support, and academic assistance you need in order to achieve success. This rewarding opportunity provides the promise of a college scholarship, a caring mentor committed to the development of your gifts, and continuous involvement from skilled student advocates who engage in educational /career counseling. Because we are a grass-roots operation under the direction of local school systems, we are able to deliver an immensely personal program to students like you, who are seeking a better life. TSIC presents the mentee iOS app with following feature: 1: Meeting schedule with mentors 2: Upload your progress and share with mentors 3: Chat with mentors and TSIC staff 4: Manage your goals, tasks and challenges assigned to you by mentors 5.Video chat with Mentor and Mentee
Cambridge Reader
Access your Cambridge University Press ebooks offline on your mobile device. Download videos and audio to prepare for classes. Requires web registration and login details.
- Access Cambridge ebooks offline
- Download videos and audio
- View enhanced online content
- Requires web registration
- Supports iOS 11.0+
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Developed for Cambridge University Press online subscription services, the Cambridge Reader App allows you to access your Cambridge Elevate, Go and Cambridge Learn Premium ebooks wherever you are. Downloading the Cambridge Reader app allows you to: • Access all of your favourite Cambridge ebooks directly from your mobile device • Have confidence that your content will be there - even if you lose internet access • Prepare for classes by downloading videos and audio to the app in advance To use the app you first need to register your account on the web using a PC or Mac. The minimum OS version supported by the Cambridge Reader App is iOS 11.0. If you already have a student or teacher account, you can log in, view your books from a phone and download enhanced online content, including videos, files, interactive activities and image galleries. This app will work once you have been sent login details and accepted the EULA and Terms of Use online.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TSIC at fortnightly against Cambridge Reader's every 6 months. Cambridge Reader's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 — 2.5 for TSIC against 2.5 for Cambridge Reader. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 114 and 52 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 11% and 10% positive.
TSIC ships an update fortnightly, Cambridge Reader every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on August 30, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TSIC | Cambridge Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (114 ratings) | 2.5 (52 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.7% of reviews — better | 10.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 52 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TSIC, INC | Cambridge University Press & Assessment (App) |
Customer experience
TSIC
Cambridge Reader
Bugs and requests
TSIC
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cambridge Reader
Reported bugs
42 issues- Randomly goes back a page
- App doesn't fit screen
- Cannot split screen
- App glitches and freezes
- App crashes frequently
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- Books disappear or don't load
- Login issues (invalid credentials, password problems, spaces in password)
- App reloads after switching apps
- Textbooks not showing up
- Outdated codes
- Cannot register/add books
- Pages not loading
- App resets when closed
- Notes disappear
- Cannot scroll horizontally
- Lack of landscape mode
- Lack of zoom functionality
- App is slow and laggy
- App doesn't support split screen
- App quits unexpectedly
- Book codes not working
- Book codes need to be entered every time
- Cannot download more than a few books
- Page select/scroll bar is difficult to use
- Books not appearing in account after login
- App doesn't show full page
- Password reset not available
- App doesn't work on iPad
- App is worse than previous version
- Cannot zoom out
- App doesn't allow horizontal scrolling
- Updated version available but book doesn't update
- Cannot flip to next pages
- App pauses the screen
- Login loop with Cambridge.go account
- Book disappears after adding both workbook and student book
- Bookmark not showing
- App is not compatible with iPhone 7 screen size
- UI is clunky
- Page closes when touched the wrong way
- App is skunk
- User interface looks like ayoos
Requested features
11 requests- Add landscape mode for iPhones
- Allow split screen functionality
- Improve scrolling (horizontal and vertical)
- Fix page loading issues
- Enable note-taking within the app
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- Improve zoom functionality
- Add animations
- Fix issues with adding books/resources
- Allow access to all subscribed titles on mobile
- Make the app fill the whole screen on iPad Pros
- Add password reset functionality
In-app purchases
TSIC
No in-app purchases
Cambridge Reader
No in-app purchases
Questions
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