SecureTestBrowser vs Imagine Learning Student
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SecureTestBrowser
This secure mobile browser provides a controlled environment for taking online assessments. It prevents switching to other apps or using hardware functions like screenshots, ensuring a focused testing experience.
- Secure online testing environment
- Prevents app switching
- Disables screenshots
- Controlled hardware functions
- Supports iOS 11.4+
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This mobile secure browser from Cambium Assessment, Inc. ensures a secure online testing experience for students taking online assessments. When the mobile secure browser is launched, users cannot switch to other applications, including other web browsers, nor can they perform certain hardware functions, such as taking screenshots. This application is only supported on devices running iOS 11.4 or higher. The mobile secure browser requires the app self-lock to be enabled either through ASAM or Automatic Assessment Configuration (AAC). About the Cambium Assessment, Inc. CAI, is one of the nation’s leading providers of academic assessments and has been providing accessible, secure online standards-based statewide adaptive testing services since 2007.
Imagine Learning Student
This app provides interactive language and literacy instruction for students from Pre-K to 6th grade. It offers a personalized learning path with thousands of engaging activities to improve reading, vocabulary, and spelling skills. It requires a site code from a school or district to function.
- Interactive language and literacy instruction
- Personalized learning paths
- Thousands of engaging activities
- Focus on letters, phonological awareness, reading, and vocabulary
- Develops reading comprehension and spelling skills
- Learn to read over 250 books and articles
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Imagine Language & Literacy® harnesses the power of technology to teach language and literacy to students around the world through engaging, interactive instruction. This mobile app is a companion to Imagine Learning's cloud-based services which allows students and teachers to have flexible access to the extensive curriculum activities. Imagine Language & Literacy lessons and activities are designed for Pre-K through 6th grade students. A personalized learning path differentiates instruction and boosts student achievement for English language learners, struggling readers, early childhood students, and students with disabilities. Imagine Language & Literacy includes thousands of fun, interactive, research-based activities, so students have fun while learning! Build a crazy monster while learning the alphabet. Play basketball while learning to spell. Free aliens by identifying the correct letter. Learn to read more than 250 books and articles. Children encounter activities in four main areas: letters, phonological awareness, reading, and vocabulary. Instruction is offered in a variety of literacy skills including letter recognition, reading comprehension, idiom comprehension, vocabulary development, phonic rules, spelling, rhyming, and phoneme segmentation. Please note this app will not work without being assigned a site code specific to your school or district. Please visit http://support.imaginelearning.com for information about System Requirements and Release Notes.
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Imagine Learning Student at fortnightly against SecureTestBrowser's every 6 months. Imagine Learning Student also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 14) and review sentiment (36% vs 20%). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Imagine Learning Student holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Imagine Learning Student has 1K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of SecureTestBrowser's written reviews are positive against 36% of Imagine Learning Student's.
SecureTestBrowser ships an update every 6 months, Imagine Learning Student fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SecureTestBrowser | Imagine Learning Student |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (14 ratings) | 3.2 (1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.3% of reviews | 36.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cambium Assessment, Inc. | Imagine Learning, Inc. |
Customer experience
SecureTestBrowser
Imagine Learning Student
User reviews
SecureTestBrowser
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Serves its purpose as a test browser
- 👍 Secure testing environment
- 👍 Works well for some users
- 👍 Useful for practicing tests at home
- 👍 Facilitates easier testing on mobile devices
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitchy and freezes often
- 🐛 Crashes and lags frequently
- 🐛 Device becomes unresponsive
- 🐛 App doesn't work for some
- 🐛 Incompatible with newer iOS versions
Imagine Learning Student
From 1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Fun and engaging
- 🎓 Educational and helpful for learning
- 👍 Good for distance/online learning
- 🎨 Customizable avatar
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 🕰️ Time-consuming and repetitive
- 🤔 Outdated and babyish for older students
- 🤯 Frustrating and not helpful for learning
- 🔇 Annoying audio/voice
Bugs and requests
SecureTestBrowser
Reported bugs
16 issues- Device doesn't turn off, gets stuck
- App crashes and lags
- App freezes, requires restart
- Black screen issues
- App locks iPad, cannot play other games
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- App makes iPad bricked
- App doesn't work, shows 'not supported'
- App doesn't allow grade selection for practice tests
- Grade dropdown does not work
- Navigation freezes, requires hard reset
- Screen jumping, tools not working
- App gets stuck trying to load test
- Voiceover is too fast to understand
- No sound for read-aloud questions
- App doesn't let user use their name properly
- App is 3 iOS updates behind
Requested features
7 requests- Ability to circle angles, underline info, mark out extra info
- Ability to draw lines to count sides on figures
- Ability to write measurements next to objects
- Ability to label graphs
- Incorporate on-screen pencil/drawing tools like Prodigy
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- Assign application to devices, not just users (for Apple Admin)
- Update to support newer iOS versions
Imagine Learning Student
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and log-outs
- Incorrect scoring/grading in activities
- Compatibility issues on certain devices
- Syncing/progress issues when switching devices
Requested features
4 requests- More engaging and challenging content for older students
- Improved stability and fewer bugs
- Faster pacing and less repetition
- Better customization options
In-app purchases
SecureTestBrowser
No in-app purchases
Imagine Learning Student
No in-app purchases
Questions
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