Pearson TELL vs ClassIn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
ClassIn
This integrated platform supports online and offline teaching with features like live classrooms, LMS, and personalized learning environments. It aims to empower educators and learners globally, fostering independent and self-disciplined lifelong learning.
- Online live classrooms
- Offline smart classrooms
- Learning Management System (LMS)
- Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
- Collaborative blackboard
- Virtual experiments
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Welcome to ClassIn and embrace the new era of lifelong learning! ClassIn, developed by Empower Education Online (EEO) for eight years, is an integrated teaching platform encompassing online live classrooms, offline smart classrooms, an LMS learning management system, and a PLE personal learning environment. ClassIn adheres to the essence of education, releasing the charm of teaching and learning, and cultivating independent and self-disciplined lifelong learners. As of now, ClassIn has been favored by educators and learners across the globe: · 150 countries · 2 million educators · 30 million learners · 20,000 K12 schools, higher education institutions, and enterprises. ClassIn effectively assists K12 schools, universities and enterprises with achieving high quality online, offline, hybrid, and intelligent teaching; ClassIn facilitates educators in creating a course system, knowledge space, learning community, and evaluation data that focus on learners; further, ClassIn enables teachers to enrich courses and teaching, and enhance students' core literacy and lifelong learning ability. Hybrid Learning Solutions ClassIn is widely praised for its comprehensive online and offline teaching solutions. It offers a seamless experience for up to 2000 people to attend online live classes, with 50 people's audio and video being displayed simultaneously. Furthermore, it provides a host of features, including collaborative blackboard, collaborative documents, group teaching and virtual experiments, to replicate the feeling of an offline environment. With its state-of-the-art intelligent teaching system, ClassIn provides an easy and efficient learning experience for both online and offline teaching. Learning Management System (LMS) ClassIn offers a comprehensive learning platform for traditional teaching activities, such as classrooms, homework, discussions, and assessments, to help students construct their own learning pathway. Moreover, with collaborative documents and internet communication, ClassIn promotes project-based, cooperative and inquiry-based learning, enabling students to practice and enhance their creativity, communication, and collaboration skills. Personal Learning Environment (PLE) ClassIn enables personalized and lifelong learning. In the era of internet and artificial intelligence, knowledge is iterating rapidly and is no longer centered in schools or libraries, but dispersed in society and networks, which requires learners to take the initiative to learn and pursue lifelong learning. ClassIn will continuously upgrade the PLE personal learning environment to build a lifelong learning system and cultivate self-disciplined lifelong learners. More to Explore on www.classin.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pearson TELL at 100% against ClassIn's 51%. Pearson TELL also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). ClassIn's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (1K vs 3). On price and ads 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. ClassIn sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Pearson TELL asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pearson TELL holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ClassIn has 1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Pearson TELL's written reviews are positive against 51% of ClassIn's.
Pearson TELL ships an update every 3 months, ClassIn every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pearson TELL | ClassIn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better | 3.6 (1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 286 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pearson Education, Inc. (Curriculum Group) | EEO Education Ltd. |
Customer experience
Pearson TELL
ClassIn
Bugs and requests
Pearson TELL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
ClassIn
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Issues with file uploads and downloads
- Microphone and camera problems
- Incompatibility with certain devices
Requested features
4 requests- Add autosave feature
- Improve screen sharing capabilities
- Enhance mobile app compatibility
- Provide better language support
In-app purchases
Pearson TELL
No in-app purchases
ClassIn
- Purchase 4 additional lesson$2.99
- Purchase 12 additional lesson$9.99
- Purchase 14 additional lesson$11.99
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- Purchase 15 additional lesson$12.99
- Purchase 16 additional lesson$12.99
- Pro Edition$14.99
- Purchase 18 additional lesson$14.99
- Purchase 17 additional lesson$14.99
- Purchase 19 additional lesson$14.99
- Monthly Edition$17.99
- Purchase 20 additional lesson$17.99









