Lecture Racing. Student vs Birdathon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lecture Racing. Student
This app transforms lectures and classes into interactive competitions. Teachers can pose questions in real-time, and students answer on their devices, earning points for speed and accuracy. It fosters engagement and provides instant feedback on comprehension.
- Real-time quizzes without preparation
- Interactive competition format
- Instant student rating and feedback
- Badges for quiz performance
- Presentation control tools
- Support for PPT, PPTX, and PDF formats
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Application for students It is a unique tool for quizzes on lectures and classes. No need to prepare the quizzes ahead, you can do it in real time! The class turns into a competition, a race – who is the best?! It engages the students and makes them pay attention. How is that achieved? Everything is done on the fly, no preparation required! The teacher asks a question about the slide on a projector, and students mark their answers on the same slide on their devices. Then, the teacher encircles the correct answers using his tablet or smartphone. After that, the app analyzes the results and creates a student rating that can be transferred back to the projector or to the personal device. The students and the teacher can use various devices including tablets, smartphones, laptops, and personal computers. The system Lecture racing includes an application for students Lecture Racing.student, an application for the projector Lecture Racing.projector, and a support website http://lectureracing.com/. Features: 1) Conducting tests and quizzes on lectures and classes without preparation, in real time 2) Racing competition, who is the best?! 3) The students receive badges based on results of the tests and quizzes. The answers given faster get higher score. 4) Presentation control tools, laser pointer, and drawing 5) Conducting quizzes, analyzing answers, and presenting the results 6) Three types of student rating 7) Presentation slides can be uploaded beforehand at http://lectureracing.com/. 8) Support for presentation formats PPT, PPTX and PDF
Birdathon
This app helps birdwatchers create and organize detailed checklists of their observations. It automatically records time and location, allowing for easy editing and customization. Users can visualize their sightings on maps, add field notes, and export data for sharing or further analysis.
- Observation-centric checklists
- Automatic time and location recording
- Customizable maps with boundary overlays
- Field notes for additional observations
- Multiple checklist sorting options
- Data export to CSV and other formats
- Create checklist templates
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Birdathon is an observation-centric tool for creating birding checklists. It helps you organize your checklists and share them with others. Use Birdathon in the field to quickly record whether and where a bird is seen or heard and the number observed. The time and location of each observation is automatically recorded. You can adjust the location, time entries and the count of birds observed at any time to ensure your records are accurate. You can add breeding codes to your observations. Checklist maps display the locations of your observations. You can overlay county boundaries for every US state. You can add a range circle such as a 5MR (5-mile Radius) to your maps. You can import and overlay custom kml/kmz files onto your maps. An Overview feature lets you see your combined observations for any time period, and displays a map showing any boundaries you have selected, so you can utilize the map feature even when you are not actively checklisting. You can export Overview data into a csv text file or create a new checklist template from the Overview. Your checklists can be viewed in taxonomic order, alphabetically, by rarity or as a timeline of species. You can enrich your checklist with field notes and add observations such as mammals, butterflies, wildflowers, etc., to make it a more complete record of your experience. You can organize your checklists into categories such as Day List, Year List, County List, Life List, etc., and assign color themes to your lists. Bird species may be added and deleted from your lists at any time. You can create new checklist templates from your previous lists or import templates created by others. You can change which template is being used. You can import text files into Birdathon, making them into templates or new checklists. Different export options for your checklists allow you to import into eBird or another copy of Birdathon. The bird species source data and other resources used in this app come from the following sources: AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, is the core data set used for Birdathon. https://www.avilist.org. Some data has been integrated from the following sources: The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world (https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/), the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (https://checklist.americanornithology.org), and the American Birding Association's (ABA) checklist of North American Birds (https://www.aba.org/listing-taxonomy/) Alpha codes come from The Institute for Bird Populations’ Standardized 4- and 6-letter Bird Species Codes. https://www.birdpop.org/pages/birdSpeciesCodes.php. County boundary data is from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) TIGER/Line 2019 Shapefiles found on the United States Census Bureau's website at https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.2019.html. Boundaries should be used as general guidelines and not be considered precise. Note especially where county boundaries follow creeks, rivers, ridge lines and other natural features, and so are of much finer resolution than can be shown on Birdathon’s maps. California breeding bird atlas blocks come from the California Bird Atlas, https://www.californiabirdatlas.org. California Bird Atlas logo and breeding code descriptions used with permission.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Birdathon at 4.7 against Lecture Racing. Student's 3.0. Birdathon also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 2). Lecture Racing. Student's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Birdathon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Lecture Racing. Student asks for nothing beyond the download.
Birdathon holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Birdathon has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lecture Racing. Student ships an update every 2 months, Birdathon every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lecture Racing. Student | Birdathon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.7 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 158 MB | 192 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Virtual Space OOO | Barry Langdon-Lassagne |
Customer experience
Lecture Racing. Student
Birdathon
In-app purchases
Lecture Racing. Student
No in-app purchases
Birdathon
- Good Tip$0.99
- Great Tip$1.99
- Amazing Tip$2.99
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- Incredible Tip$4.99






