Socrative Teacher vs Plickers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Real-time formative assessment
- Create and share quizzes
- Automatic grading
- Virtual classroom rooms
- Instant feedback and reporting
- Cross-device compatibility
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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.
Plickers
This app allows educators to conduct instant polls and check for understanding in their classrooms without requiring students to have individual devices. Simply scan student response cards using a smartphone or tablet to gather data, which is then automatically saved online.
- Free classroom polling
- No student devices required
- Scan student response cards
- Instant checks-for-understanding
- Automatic data saving
- Online data access
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Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your iPhone/iPad to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Best of all, your data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com. Happy teaching!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plickers at 4.1 against Socrative Teacher's 3.2. Plickers also leads on review sentiment (72% vs 50%) and ratings volume (313 vs 29). Socrative Teacher's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Plickers holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plickers has 313 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Socrative Teacher's written reviews are positive against 72% of Plickers's.
Socrative Teacher ships an update every 3 months, Plickers every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Socrative Teacher | Plickers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (29 ratings) | 4.1 (313 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.5% of reviews | 72.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 313 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Showbie Inc. | Plickers Inc. |
Customer experience
Socrative Teacher
Plickers
Bugs and requests
Socrative Teacher
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Plickers
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashing on launch
- Scanning issues and inconsistent response detection
- Syncing problems between app and website
- Disappearing questions and data loss
- Compatibility issues with newer OS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to share question banks between teachers
- More formatting options for questions and answers
- Improved data reporting and export capabilities
- Compatibility with more devices and platforms
- Easier class and student management
In-app purchases
Socrative Teacher
No in-app purchases
Plickers
No in-app purchases
Questions
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