Comparison

Socrative Teacher vs NL Sensor

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

Head to head
About

Socrative Teacher

This app helps educators conduct real-time formative assessments, allowing them to quiz and grade students instantly from any device. It provides flexible assessment tools, automatic grading, and powerful reporting to identify learning gaps and engage students effectively.

Highlights
  • Real-time formative assessment
  • Create and share quizzes
  • Automatic grading
  • Virtual classroom rooms
  • Instant feedback and reporting
  • Cross-device compatibility
Features
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Socrative is the best classroom app for formative assessment, empowering teachers to quiz and grade at the speed of learning, from any device, in class or remotely. Simple and reliable, Socrative is trusted by millions of educators around the world to deliver effective assessments to learners at every level. With instant feedback, you can identify knowledge gaps, engage your students more effectively, and adjust teaching on-the-fly to close feedback loops faster. - Flexible & engaging assessment tools: quickly create, manage, share a library of activities, and send customized quizzes directly to students, all in one simple platform. - Easy-to-create virtual rooms: easily set up rostered rooms for classes or individual activities, and invite students with simple and secure login options. - Automatic grading: with real-time marking and result reporting, it’s never been easier to visualize student learning so you can engage your learners, quickly adapt lessons or revisit concepts in the moment, and spend less time grading assignments. - Powerful real-time reporting: download detailed student and question-level quiz reports to share with students or colleagues, and make communication a breeze with automatic distribution of quiz results to students. Socrative is available for download on all major digital devices, and for use on all major browsers. You can use Socrative on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. Socrative is 100% free for students to use, on all devices.

About

NL Sensor

Features
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NL Sensor turns your iPhone or iPad into a live dashboard for Nu Lambda Scientific Bluetooth sensors. Connect a sensor, watch the data stream in real time, analyze it on the spot, and export it — all on device, with nothing sent to the cloud. MEASURE ANY SENSOR IN THE FLEET • Motion / distance, force / load, voltage, current, pressure, illuminance, 3-axis magnetometers, dual-thermistor temperature probes, and photogates are detected automatically by name. • Metric cards show the current value and a stable 40-point average. • Set the sample rate from 1 to 100 Hz right from the app. LIVE CHARTS BUILT FOR THE LAB • A smooth 10-second sliding window while you measure. • Pause to pan and pinch-zoom — each axis zooms independently, so you can stretch time or values on their own — then show all data, reset, or clear. • Drag to select a region and get a least-squares linear fit (slope, intercept, R²) or statistics (mean, standard deviation, count). • Expand any chart to full screen. MOTION, VELOCITY & ACCELERATION • Motion sensors add derived velocity (m/s) and acceleration (m/s²) charts, computed with smoothed derivatives. PRESSURE & TEMPERATURE • Pressure sensors add a Temperature-vs-Time chart and a Pressure-vs-Temperature graph, with a fine ±0.1 hPa scale for reading small changes. DUAL TEMPERATURE • Dual-thermistor probes show T₁ and T₂ together on one chart plus a separate chart for each, colour-coded red and green. PHOTOGATE EXPERIMENTS • A photogate sensor turns beam-block timing into seven ready-made experiments: Basic Free Fall, Single Gate, Two-Gate Timer, Pendulum Period, Speed (two-stripe card), Pulley, and Two Gates. • Get distance–time and speed–time graphs, oscillation periods with average and spread, angular motion from a pulley, and precise gate timing — then linear-fit a speed–time graph to read acceleration straight off the slope. WALK THE GRAPH • Turn distance-time graphs into a movement challenge: pick a target curve, walk to match it, and get a live score for how well your motion tracks the graph. Five graph sets from basic to creative. TWO SENSORS AT ONCE • Connect two sensors and compare them on an XY chart that pairs their latest readings in real time. • Pause the XY chart to pan, pinch-zoom, drag-select a range for a linear fit or statistics, and tap any point to read its A / B values. TONE GENERATOR (NO SENSOR NEEDED) • A built-in signal generator, open straight from the dashboard. Play a pure sine tone from 0.5 Hz to 20,000 Hz with a slider, exact numeric entry, and a fine/coarse adjust pad. • Run a frequency sweep (chirp) with your own start, final, step size and step duration, and a live progress bar — great for hearing tests, resonance hunts, and Doppler demos. • Switch to Dual Tone to sound two independent tones at once for beats, musical intervals, superposition, and masking. Set amplitude and output channel (both, left, or right) for each tone. EXPORT EVERYTHING • Export any chart, the XY data, or the entire session as CSV through the iOS share sheet. PRIVACY • All measurements stay on your device. No account, no tracking, no data collection. NL Sensor requires a compatible Nu Lambda Scientific Bluetooth sensor. A built-in demo mode lets you explore the app without hardware.

Screenshots

Socrative Teacher4 screens
NL Sensor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: NL Sensor at every 2 weeks against Socrative Teacher's every 3 months. Socrative Teacher's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, NL Sensor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Socrative Teacher versus NL Sensor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSocrative TeacherNL Sensor
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (29 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings29 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShowbie Inc.Nu Lambda Scientific Company Limited

In-app purchases

None

Socrative Teacher

No in-app purchases

None

NL Sensor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Socrative Teacher free?
Socrative Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is NL Sensor free?
NL Sensor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Socrative Teacher or NL Sensor have ads?
Neither Socrative Teacher nor NL Sensor shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Socrative Teacher or NL Sensor?
Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, and NL Sensor every 2 weeks. Most recently, Socrative Teacher was updated on October 11, 2026 and NL Sensor on October 9, 2026.

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