Comparison

Google Classroom vs Long Default

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

Head to head
About

Google Classroom

This app streamlines educational workflows for teachers and students. It facilitates paperless assignment creation, distribution, and grading, while enhancing communication and organization. Students can track assignments and receive feedback, and teachers can manage classes and provide real-time updates.

Highlights
  • Paperless assignment creation and grading
  • Automatic document copying for students
  • Organized Drive folders for assignments
  • Real-time feedback and grades
  • Instant announcements and class discussions
  • Mobile access for on-the-go management
Currently charting
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Classroom is a free service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and outside of schools. Classroom saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized. Classroom is designed to help teachers create, collect, and grade assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google Document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organized. Students can keep track of what’s due on the Assignments page and begin working with just a click. Teachers can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback and grades right in Classroom. With the mobile app for iOS, students and teachers can view their classes and communicate with their classmates in real time. Students can open their assignments and work on them right from their iPhone or iPad. Teachers can keep track of who has turned in work and grade the assignment - at school or on the go. Students and teachers receive notifications when they have new content in Classroom, so they are always up to date. There are many benefits of using Classroom: Easy to set up Teachers can add students directly or share a code with their class to join. It takes just minutes to set up. Saves time The simple, paperless assignment workflow allows teachers to create, review, and grade assignments quickly, all in one place. Improves organization Students can see all of their assignments on an assignments page, and all class materials (e.g., documents, photos, and videos) are automatically filed into folders in Google Drive. Enhances communication Classroom allows teachers to send announcements and start class discussions instantly. Students can share resources with each other or provide answers to questions on the stream. Secure Like the rest of Google Workspace for Education services, Classroom contains no ads, never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes. Permissions Notice: Camera: Needed to allow the user to take photos or videos and post them to Classroom. Microphone: Needed to enable audio capture for recording videos to be posted to Classroom. Photos: Needed to allow the user to attach photos or videos to Classroom. Photos or videos posted to Classroom will be stored on Google servers in order to show them in Classroom.

About

Long Default

Features
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Explore the story of U.S. federal debt with Long Default, a guide to America’s fiscal history. Follow public debt, federal spending, revenue, and deficits through historical records and clear visualizations. Explore fiscal trends over time and see how the record changes across presidential administrations. Built for students, educators, researchers, and anyone curious about public finances, Long Default brings official public data into an accessible reference for iPhone. Data is drawn from U.S. Treasury and Office of Management and Budget publications. Observed figures, official estimates, and reconstructed historical values are distinguished, with missing data identified rather than filled in. Long Default is an independent educational project and is not affiliated with the U.S. government. Photo credit: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 campaign portrait, by Leon Perskie. Courtesy of the FDR Presidential Library & Museum; gift of Beatrice Perskie Foxman and Dr. Stanley B. Foxman, 2009. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdrlibrary/8145288140/ . Licensed under CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ . Retouched and cropped version via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=171293476 . Displayed as a reduced thumbnail.

Screenshots

Google Classroom4 screens
Long Default1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Google Classroom at Free against Long Default's $0.29. Google Classroom also leads on chart position (#9 vs unranked). Long Default's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Google Classroom is free to download; Long Default costs $0.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Google Classroom versus Long Default: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle ClassroomLong Default
PriceFree — better$0.29
Rating2.1 (37K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings37K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#9 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoogleEVGUENI ALEXANDROVICH NEIMAN

Bugs and requests

Google Classroom

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Assignments disappearing or not properly syncing
  • Inability to edit or update assignments after posting
  • Inconsistent behavior across devices and platforms

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a dark mode option
  • Improve notification control and customization
  • Implement a better missing assignments/to-do list
  • Allow more flexibility in class organization and archiving

Long Default

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google Classroom

No in-app purchases

None

Long Default

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google Classroom free?
Google Classroom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Long Default free?
Long Default costs $0.29, with no in-app purchases.
Do Google Classroom or Long Default have ads?
Neither Google Classroom nor Long Default shows ads.

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