Comparison

Easy Grade vs Liminal

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

Head to head
About

Easy Grade

Effortlessly grade student papers with this digital tool. Customize test parameters, choose grading methods, and adjust display settings for a personalized experience. Offers advanced features like half-point grading through an in-app purchase.

Highlights
  • Adjust number of questions
  • Grade by questions right/wrong
  • Half-point grading option
  • Adjust text size
  • Landscape mode support
  • Slide Over/Split View on iPad
Features
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Grade papers in seconds — anywhere, anytime. Trusted by 15,000+ teachers. 4.9 stars. The original EZ Grader app with half-point scoring. Features: • Works for any number of questions • Half-point increments • Grade by correct OR incorrect answers • Large text mode for easy reading • Landscape + Split View for iPad • Works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Color themes and more icons for Easy Grade Premium No cardboard EZ Grader needed.

About

Liminal

Engage in thoughtful conversations with AI reconstructions of great minds. Explore philosophical concepts through interactive games and unique encounters designed for quiet reflection. Many features are available offline and free to use.

Highlights
  • AI reconstructions of great minds
  • Interactive philosophical games
  • Poetry generation
  • Question and answer sessions
  • Thought experiments
  • Offline play
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Liminal is a quiet game about thinking. You arrive in the Atrium — a hall of doors. Behind each door is a great mind, reconstructed from their writings to think *with* you: Albert Camus on the café terrace, Nietzsche at altitude, Rumi turning toward the Beloved, Kafka in the unmarked office, the Stoic Marcus Aurelius, and more than a dozen others. Choose a voice, choose how you want to be met — challenged, accompanied, or left mostly to silence — and play. THE GAMES • Words for the Sea — offer a handful of words and receive a short poem in the thinker's voice. • Ask anything — put a real question to a real mind and hear a considered reply. • The Descent — one question, then deeper, and deeper still. • The Dilemma — a classic thought-experiment that branches to a reflection with no clean answer. • The Fork, The Reframe, Agree or Disagree, The Mask, A Minute of Silence — short games that read you back to yourself. ENCOUNTERS — where the voices meet • Two Voices — ask two thinkers one question and watch the second answer the first. • The Symposium — a panel answers, and a neutral narrator names the sharpest disagreement. • Philosophers' Football — draft two sides from the roster and let the eternal match be narrated. • The Oracle, The Gift, The Mirror — smaller rooms for fortune, reflection, and a parting tool to carry. QUIET BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No feed. Liminal asks nothing of you but attention. Many games work offline, for free. A NOTE ON THE VOICES The thinkers in Liminal are AI reconstructions written in each mind's spirit — they are not the real people, and nothing they say is professional advice. Liminal is for reflection, not counsel. Live, in-character answers are generated by Anthropic's Claude. The thinkers in Liminal are AI reconstructions — not the real people, and nothing they say is professional advice. Every line is original, written in each voice's spirit — never a verbatim quote from any author. Liminal is for reflection, not counsel. Live, in-character answers are generated by Anthropic's Claude. Sign in with Apple to carry your account and credits across devices. A handful of live answers are free; more are available as a small in-app purchase.

Screenshots

Easy Grade4 screens
Liminal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Liminal at none against Easy Grade's shown. Liminal also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Easy Grade's advantage is ratings volume (11K vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Easy Grade sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Liminal sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Easy Grade against 5.0 for Liminal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Easy Grade has 11K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Easy Grade ships an update fortnightly, Liminal every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Easy Grade versus Liminal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEasy GradeLiminal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (11K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings11K — better2
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB10 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperObjective Jellyfish, LLCHessam Zahedi

Customer experience

Easy Grade

All ratings11,433 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive80.8%
Neutral1.3%
Negative17.9%

Liminal

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Easy Grade

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Unable to use half points on iPad
  • App not working properly for some users

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add support for different point totals
  • Integrate school grading scales
  • Provide data analytics and reporting

Liminal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Easy Grade

One-time3
  • Half Points$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Easy Grade Premium$6.99
2 purchases

Liminal

One-time2
  • 25 Credits$2.99
  • 100 Credits$9.99

Questions

Is Easy Grade free?
Easy Grade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Liminal free?
Liminal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Easy Grade or Liminal?
Liminal is rated higher. Easy Grade averages 4.9 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Liminal averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Easy Grade or Liminal have ads?
Easy Grade shows ads; Liminal does not.
Which is updated more often, Easy Grade or Liminal?
Easy Grade ships an update fortnightly, and Liminal every 3 weeks. Most recently, Easy Grade was updated on November 12, 2026 and Liminal on November 2, 2026.

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