Comparison

TestNav vs Pearson TELL

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

Head to head
About

TestNav

This application provides a secure and reliable platform for delivering educational tests online. It ensures test items are presented consistently across devices.

Highlights
  • Secure test delivery
  • Reliable online platform
  • Consistent test item presentation
  • iOS device compatibility
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TestNav is Pearson's online test delivery platform. It enables test items to be delivered online securely and reliably in a consistent manner. The TestNav for iOS app allows TestNav to run on iOS devices.

About

Pearson TELL

This app offers a self-administered online language proficiency assessment for K-12 students. It includes various tests to monitor progress and provide schools with insights into students' language skills, informing instructional decisions. Results are available quickly thanks to innovative speech and writing evaluation technology.

Highlights
  • K-12 language proficiency assessment
  • Screener, diagnostic, and progress monitoring tests
  • Measures listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills
  • Innovative speech and writing evaluation technology
  • Fast, reliable scored results
  • Detailed reporting for schools and districts
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Pearson’s TELL is a self-delivered online language proficiency assessment for students in grades K-12. TELL consists of a single screener, two diagnostic, and eight progress monitoring assessments that are administered throughout the course of an academic school year. The results from TELL provide schools and districts with a complete understanding of their students’ current language proficiency and allows them to measure their progression. This robust reporting that also helps inform instructional decisions. With minimal set-up time, students can begin testing. During test administration, students watch video clips and interact with pictures and words on a tablet, then answer questions out loud. They listen, write, read, and speak—all with no mark-ups or grading by teachers. Short, effective testing allows users to monitor student progress on the development of core English language skills necessary for learning academic content. TELL’s unique items types allow for measuring multiple skills in a single item. TELL’s innovative speech recognition and writing evaluation technology yields highly reliable scored but also means that results are available in minutes! TELL scores are provided at the Overall level, for the four foundational skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking), and for the following sub-skills : pronunciation, fluency, grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension, reading rate, expressiveness, and pre-literacy.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pearson TELL at 100% against TestNav's 24%. Pearson TELL also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.6) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). TestNav's advantage is ratings volume (99 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pearson TELL holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TestNav has 99 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of TestNav's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pearson TELL's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TestNav ships an update every 8 months, Pearson TELL every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
TestNav versus Pearson TELL: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTestNavPearson TELL
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.6 (99 ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings99 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPearsonPearson Education, Inc.

Customer experience

TestNav

All ratings92 ratings
Positive15.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative82.6%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive23.6%
Neutral3.4%
Negative73.0%

Pearson TELL

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

TestNav

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Open response boxes never work properly
  • Drag and drop not working
  • Permission errors for speech, mic, etc.
  • App crashes all the time
  • App doesn't work
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  • App needs update but cannot update

Requested features

10 requests
  • Way to lower brightness
  • Actual Dark Mode
  • Allow access to Accessibility Shortcuts menu during testing
  • Enable/disable inverted colors during testing
  • Enable zoom during testing
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  • Enable VoiceOver during testing
  • Add dancing GIFs of Nick Young
  • Add mini games with golf balls and levels
  • Add Flappy golf extreme
  • Add cross map tomahawks

Pearson TELL

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

TestNav

No in-app purchases

None

Pearson TELL

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TestNav free?
TestNav is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pearson TELL free?
Pearson TELL is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TestNav or Pearson TELL?
Pearson TELL is rated higher. TestNav averages 1.6 out of 5 from 99 ratings, while Pearson TELL averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do TestNav or Pearson TELL have ads?
Neither TestNav nor Pearson TELL shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TestNav or Pearson TELL?
TestNav ships an update every 8 months, and Pearson TELL every 3 months. Most recently, TestNav was updated on October 12, 2026 and Pearson TELL on October 1, 2026.

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