CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep vs AssertHired
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep
Prepare for CompTIA certification exams with a personalized study plan. Practice with thousands of questions, track your progress, and compare your scores to the community average to boost your confidence and pass on your first attempt.
- Personalized study plan
- 5000+ practice questions
- Track strengths and weaknesses
- Detailed test statistics
- Compare scores to community average
- Choose exam topics
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Pass your CompTIA exams with flying colors! Boost your confidence in passing the first time with our mobile app and a personal study plan based on your current skill and requirements. Based in Downers Grove, Illinois, CompTIA issues vendor-neutral professional certifications in over 120 countries. The organization releases over 50 industry studies annually to track industry trends and changes. Over 2.2 million people have earned CompTIA certifications since the association was established. Key features: - Choose from different topics required to receive a certification - Practice with 5000+ questions - Track your strengths and weaknesses within Stats section of the app - Study detailed statistics of every test you take - Compare your score to the community average for almost any type of exam - - - - Purchases, subscriptions and terms You need to buy a lifetime access or subscribe to get access to all features, courses and questions. The cost of the purchase is charged to your iTunes account. Subscriptions are auto-renewable and are billed at the rate and period selected depending on the subscription plan. Users’ accounts are charged for auto-renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal can be turned off in Account Settings in iTunes after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of use: https://mastrapi.com/terms.html Privacy policy: https://mastrapi.com/policy.html
AssertHired
Practice QA and SDET interviews with mock interviews, tailored feedback, and hands-on skill labs. Improve your interview readiness with structured courses and a shareable profile of your proven skills.
- Mock interviews (behavioral, technical, coding)
- Voice or text answers
- Specific feedback and answer rewrites
- Hands-on Skill Labs (Playwright, Selenium, API, SQL)
- Structured courses with exams and certificates
- Job-specific interview tailoring
- Readiness score and shareable QA Passport
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AssertHired is interview practice built for QA Engineers and SDETs, not general software roles. Run a mock interview and answer by typing or by speaking. Questions adapt to the role you are targeting, from manual QA through automation and SDET. When you finish, you get a scored report that tells you what landed, what did not, and what to say instead. WHAT YOU CAN DO Mock interviews. Behavioural, technical, and coding rounds. Answer by voice or by text, whichever suits where you are. Feedback that is specific. Every answer is scored against what an interviewer is actually listening for, with a rewrite you can use. Quick drills. Short practice runs for the days you have five minutes rather than an hour. Skill Labs. Hands-on exercises in Playwright, Selenium, API testing and SQL, so you practise the work and not only the talking. Courses. Structured lessons with exams and a certificate at the end. Job tracker. Save a role, paste the job description, and run an interview tailored to that posting. Readiness score. One honest number for how prepared you are, and what to fix first. QA Passport. A shareable profile of what you have proven, with results a recruiter can verify. WHO IT IS FOR Manual testers moving into automation. SDETs preparing for a specific loop. Career changers who need reps before the real thing. Anyone who has been asked to describe a time they found a critical bug and gone blank. PLANS AssertHired is free to start. Contender gives you 50 mock interviews a month, every category, and difficulty up to senior. Elite raises that to 150, adds principal level, and includes all seven guided courses. Both include Verified Assessment. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://www.asserthired.com/terms Privacy: https://www.asserthired.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: AssertHired at 100% against CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep's 31%. AssertHired also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep's advantage is ratings volume (2.2K vs 7) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). 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. CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per month and AssertHired sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
AssertHired holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep has 2.2K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 31% of CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep's written reviews are positive against 100% of AssertHired's.
CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep ships an update every 5 weeks, AssertHired every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep | AssertHired |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.2K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.2K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MastrAPI | AssertHired LLC |
Customer experience
CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep
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Bugs and requests
CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep
Reported bugs
4 issues- Questions referencing missing pictures
- Incorrect answers and explanations
- Subscription issues across devices
- Reporting feature not functioning
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to target specific exam objectives
- Dark mode option
- More zoom options
- Improved exam version tracking
AssertHired
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CompTIA A+ & Security + Prep
- Monthly with Trial7 Days trial$24.991 Month
- Lifetime$99.99
AssertHired
- Contender Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Elite Monthly7 Days trial$39.991 Month
- Contender Yearly7 Days trial$149.991 Year
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- Elite Yearly7 Days trial$299.991 Year
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