TERC EarthLabs vs Promethean
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TERC EarthLabs
This app offers free high school Earth science curriculum units with interactive visualizations, videos, and hands-on labs. It allows users to run Flash-based videos and interactives on their iPad for engaging science education.
- Interactive visualizations
- Video content
- Hands-on labs
- Flash-based interactives
- Curriculum units
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EarthLabs (http://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs) is a free set of high school Earth science curriculum units developed by TERC that engage students through a variety of modes including interactive visualizations, video, and hands-on labs. Download the EarthLabs App to run many of the Flash-based videos and interactives on your iPad.
Promethean
This app facilitates classroom collaboration by allowing students and teachers to interact with interactive panels wirelessly. IT administrators can also manage panel enrollment and updates. It offers screen sharing and access to training resources.
- Wireless screen sharing
- Panel management for IT admins
- Access to training materials
- Student-teacher interaction
- Panel enrollment and naming
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Put classroom collaboration into the hands of students and teachers and panel management into the hands of school IT administrators. The Promethean mobile app is designed for teachers and students to interact with Promethean ActivPanels from anywhere in the classroom. Teachers have the ability to sign in and access their Promethean profile. For IT administrators, the Promethean mobile app helps to enroll ActivPanels into their panel management to make updates easier. Students can • Wirelessly share the screen from their mobile device to ActivPanels with Screen Share or Screen Share in Promethean ActivSuite. • No sign-in required. Teachers can • Wirelessly share the screen from their mobile device to ActivPanels with Screen Share or Screen Share in Promethean ActivSuite. • Access Promethean user tutorials and training materials on Learn Promethean directly through the app.* • Sign in to their Promethean account to access Promethean ActivSuite and sign in to their ActivPanel 9. IT Administrators can • Sign in to their Promethean account. • Wirelessly share the screen from their mobile device to ActivPanels with Screen Share or Screen Share in Promethean ActivSuite. • Access Promethean user tutorials and training materials on Learn Promethean directly through the app* • Enroll ActivPanels into a school organization, name the panel, associate it with groups and verify that it was enrolled successfully. NOTES: • The Promethean app requires a device where a Promethean account can be accessed or Promethean ActivPanel Elements (Nickel, Cobalt, Titanium) series panels with Software Release (SR) 3.2 or newer. • Panel sign in is only available for ActivPanel 9 series. • Screen Share must be enabled on ActivPanel to utilize Screen Share from the Promethean app. * Dependent upon language"
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TERC EarthLabs at 5.0 against Promethean's 2.5. TERC EarthLabs also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 18%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Promethean's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 53 months) and ratings volume (61 vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TERC EarthLabs holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Promethean has 61 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of TERC EarthLabs's written reviews are positive against 18% of Promethean's.
TERC EarthLabs ships an update every 53 months, Promethean every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TERC EarthLabs | Promethean |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.5 (61 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better | 17.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 61 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 53 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 66 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TERC, Inc. | Promethean |
Customer experience
TERC EarthLabs
Promethean
In-app purchases
TERC EarthLabs
No in-app purchases
Promethean
No in-app purchases
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