Khan Academy is one of the most popular education apps with more than 100 million people using the app worldwide. Meanwhile, Aptitude is one of its most recent competitors and has gained rapid traction in the e-learning industry.
So, which one is the better education app to use? A comparison of the two e-learning services will help determine that. Here's a full comparison of everything you need to know about Khan Academy and Aptitude.
Khan Academy
In 2008, Salman Khan founded Khan Academy to create an online education service to help students learn. Since its inception, it has become one of the most well-recognized education apps in the world. It is available in more than 30 countries and over 70 million people used the app in 2018.
The education service is a non-profit organization that believes that everyone deserves a free, world-class education. The app is available on the App Store and desktop browsers such as Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a learning dashboard for every user. Subjects offered by Khan Academy include math, science, computer programming, history, economics, and language arts.
Khan Academy also offers test preparation for entrance exams such as the ACT, SAT, MCAT, and NCLEX-RN. The information offered on Khan Academy ranges from kindergarten to grade 12.
Aptitude
In 2019, Martin Edwini-Bonsu and Anton Chaw started the education app Aptitude. The app is a free e-learning app that believes that education is a fundamental human right that everyone deserves to have.
For desktop, the app is available on Google Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. For mobile, Aptitude is available on the App Store, Windows Store, and the Google Play Store.
Aptitude offers a multitude of features. Just like Khan Academy, Aptitude offers practice exercises, interactive videos and articles, and a learning dashboard for every user to track their progress. However, Aptitude offers other features that differentiate themselves from Khan Academy. Aptitude offers students the ability to create study guides/flashcards for any available subject. After the student creates a study guide/set of flashcards, Aptitude will generate a certain amount of questions based on the amount of information available.
For humanities, Aptitude offers a rubric check for writing assignments. When students write on Aptitude, students choose whether the assignment is language arts or social. Then, the user has to choose what type of assessment for Aptitude to generate a specific rubric that students can use. While students are completing their writing assignments, Aptitude will give users an overall grade and recommendations on how to improve areas such as grammar, supporting evidence, thought and understanding, diction, and syntax.
Aptitude also has a camera questionnaire that allows students to take a picture or type in a question and Aptitude generates answers within seconds. This feature works for questions such as word problems, equations, expressions, application questions, exam-style questions.
For subjects such as mathematics, language arts, and languages such as French, Aptitude offers aptitude exams that test the proficiency of a student's skills in a certain subject based on their grade level. After the student finishes the test, Aptitude gives students a full report showing their strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, it comes with recommendations on how to improve their skills in math, reading, speaking, and writing.
Aptitude is 100% aligned with curriculums in Canada and the United States. It offers textbook/worksheet solutions, textbooks for certain courses, and tests to prepare students for unit and final exams. For students studying English Language Arts, Aptitude offers a library of novels, poems, short stories, and Shakespeare texts that are commonly used in English literature.
Which is the best?
While Khan Academy and Aptitude are both tremendously great apps to use to expand your knowledge, which one is the best to use?
If you live outside North America, the winner is Khan Academy. Aptitude only started in 2019 and has yet to expand worldwide.
If you're just learning for pleasure, the winner is Khan Academy. It covers more information and offers users subjects that Aptitude has yet to have such as arts and economics.
If you're a student in any grade, Aptitude is a winner. Aptitude offers information that is directly related to school curriculums and provides textbook solutions to questions rarely answered online.
If you want to improve your math and language arts skills, Aptitude is a winner. Aptitude offers tremendous help with how to improve your level of proficiency for those subjects with their diagnostic exams. They also have a rubric check to help students improve their writing skills by suggesting specific areas to work on.
Overall, Aptitude is the winner. It might not be available in as many countries when compared to Khan Academy, but the app has higher satisfaction rates when compared to Khan Academy. We held an online survey for 1,000 students that have both used Aptitude and Khan Academy; 59% of students prefer to use Aptitude and 41% of students prefer to use Khan Academy.
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