ASSIST vs ActivCast Sender
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ASSIST
This app automates the grading of various student assessments, including bubble sheets captured by camera. It allows educators to log and review individual student results, manage collaborative learning activities, and aggregate data by student, class, or standard.
- Automated assessment grading
- Bubble sheet scanning
- Student result logging
- Collaborative activity scoring
- Immediate result review
- Data aggregation
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● Administer and collect student results from common, summative, formative and rubrics-based assessments ● Automatically grades bubble sheets captured by camera by identifying encoded student ID and comparing to teacher-defined key. ● Log individual student results to any assessment type ● Manage and score collaborative learning activities ● Immediately review the results of any assessment in ASSIST ● Results from ASSIST can be uploaded and aggregated by student, class, campus, assessment and standard
ActivCast Sender
This app allows teachers and students to wirelessly share their device screens with the entire class. It facilitates the display of content, ideas, and applications for collaborative learning.
- Wireless content mirroring
- Share ideas and apps
- Classroom display
- Device to projector/screen
- Educational collaboration
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Teachers and students can use ActivCast to wirelessly mirror their content, ideas and apps on their device to the entire class.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ActivCast Sender at 3.0 against ASSIST's 2.0. ActivCast Sender also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 4) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 14.0). ASSIST's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months). On price, review sentiment, 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.
ActivCast Sender holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of ASSIST's written reviews are positive against 13% of ActivCast Sender's.
ASSIST ships an update every 4 months, ActivCast Sender every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ASSIST | ActivCast Sender |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (4 ratings) | 3.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 4.8% of reviews | 12.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ALL In Learning | Promethean |
Customer experience
ASSIST
ActivCast Sender
In-app purchases
ASSIST
No in-app purchases
ActivCast Sender
No in-app purchases
Questions
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