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SafeExamBrowser is #6 in Education Free in Indonesia and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperETH Zurich
CategoryEducation
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 1.5 (2.1k)
Version3.7.2
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
📦Updated to version 3.7.2📈Charting in a new country📈Charting in a new country🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 3.7.1🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 8 events
- ✏️SafeExamBrowser: app got smaller71 MB → 62 MB (-12%)
- ✏️SafeExamBrowser: needs a newer iOSiOS 12.0 → iOS 13.0
- 📦SafeExamBrowser updated to version 3.7.2• Improved stability: fixed several crashes that could occur at launch, while browsing, or when reading settings.
• No more silent white screen: if a web page fails to load (server error) or the web content process stops unexpectedly, SEB now shows a load error with a Retry option instead of a blank page.
• Clearer configuration download errors: if a server returns no valid settings (an HTTP error or an empty response), SEB shows a clear "Downloading Settings Failed" message instead of a misleading "settings are corrupted" error.
• Reading corrupted or incomplete configuration data no longer crashes the app.
• You can now configure the allowed SEB versions restriction directly in the iOS Settings.
• Clearer Assessment Mode errors: if the Assessment Mode (AAC) can't be started (for example because an assessment session is already active), SEB now shows the specific reason instead of only a generic message.
• Various stability and reliability improvements.… more - 📈SafeExamBrowser charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈SafeExamBrowser charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 🆕SafeExamBrowser first spotted by AppInsider#6 in Top Free · Education · Indonesia
- 📦SafeExamBrowser version 3.7.1- Fetch & embed server certificates by URL: in Settings › Network › Certificates you can fetch a server's certificate over HTTPS and embed it (verify its SHA-256 fingerprint before embedding).
- "Allow iOS screen capture" setting to control screen recording / AirPlay / cable mirroring during an exam has now a new, iOS-specific key allowScreenCaptureiOS.
- You can now enter a custom browser User Agent string (and suffix) directly in the iOS Settings.
- In-page text search now also finds text inside iFrames, and no longer clears text you typed into open-answer fields. Now it also shows the number of found search text occurrences.
- Support for running on the latest iOS version.
- iCloud Documents capability caused AAC to deactivate with a specific MDM restriction: Removed the iCloud Documents capability, as it's no longer necessary for files from iCloud drive being automatically downloaded when opening them in SEB.
- Fixed: User Agent string with trailing space caused web app error.
- Added Compatibility for Passwords Containing Accented Characters.
- Fixed: SEB-JSON floating point serialization differs between Windows and macOS/iOS, which could lead to a different Config Key.
- Allowed SEB Versions: exams can now require specific SEB versions. If your version isn't allowed, SEB explains the requirement and offers to update via the App Store.
- Various stability and reliability improvements.
Optional features which need to be individually configured and are disabled by default:
- Screen Proctoring: if connecting to the proctoring service fails, SEB now shows an error and lets you retry.
- Fixed some more random crashes when using screen proctoring.… more - 🆕SafeExamBrowser released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
1.5 ★
2.1k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#6
Education FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
7
▲ +14% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
SafeExamBrowser at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-09-28. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
SafeExamBrowser is a free, secure kiosk-mode web browser for iOS developed by ETH Zurich that locks student devices during online assessments to prevent cheating. The app currently ranks #4 in the Indonesian Education Free chart despite a low user rating of 1.52 stars from over 2,000 reviews.
Similar apps: Lockdown Browser, Respondus Monitor, Kiosk Mode
SafeExamBrowser on the App Store
App details
App ID
1155002964
Publisher
ETH Zurich
On the store since
Jun 2017
9 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 13.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
2
EN DE
Size
62 MB
Also listed in
Business
App privacy Measured
SafeExamBrowser declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
Declared label
Data Not Collected
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
SafeExamBrowser downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where SafeExamBrowser's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesia | EducationFree | #6 |
Apps near SafeExamBrowser on the chart
Education Free, around #6.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
1.5 ★
2.1k ratings
Measured
Ratings
2.1k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
7
▲ +14% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
1.5★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
72/100
faster than 82% of Education apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about SafeExamBrowser
From the 34 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly report that the app is buggy, slow, and frequently crashes or freezes devices during exams. Many complain about lack of support for iOS 18 and a confusing setup process that locks users out of their devices.
Mostly negative (3% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and speed and performance.
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “really bad it doesn’t work”
- Speed & performance: “The app is glitchy, is slow, and often freezes the iPad”
- Updates: “This software does not work with the new apple update IOS 18”
- Useful: “I don’t recommend and I hope teachers don’t use it anymore”
About SafeExamBrowser
SafeExamBrowser (SEB) is a secure kiosk web browser environment used to carry out e-assessments that run on exam servers. SEB opens a web browser without an address and search bar, loads a pre-configured webpage and locks an iPad (or iPhone or iPod Touch) into an assessment kiosk mode. This mode prevents students from switching to other apps (unless additional permitted apps are configured), accessing websites and communicating with other students during an exam. SEB enables secure exams on unmanaged iOS devices like students' own iPads as well as on iOS devices owned and managed by an institution. SEB doesn't use a centralized server or cloud service; it can be configured with an API, configuration files, links and QR codes. It can be used with most web-based quiz and e-assessment systems. For improved security and usability, some exam systems provide additional built-in support for SEB. Currently, SEB integrates especially well with learning management systems (LMS) such as Moodle, OpenOlat, ILIAS and with several non-commercial and commercial exam systems, such as Inspera Assessment, Dugga, Exam.net, EvaExam and Ans.
SEB uses one of the single app modes provided by iOS. After an exam is submitted, SEB can automatically end the app self-lock assessment mode (an exam invigilator could also use a quit password to end the SEB exam session and unlock the device if necessary).
SEB features an optional Dock displaying buttons for various commands. Instead or in addition, a left slider menu shows a list of open browser tabs and commands which can be used to (if enabled in settings) quit an exam session, jump back to the start page of an exam, reload a web page, and navigate back/forward in the browsing history.
SEB for iOS uses the same format for encrypted .seb configuration files as the SEB versions for other platforms. Those config files allow to individually configure SEB to display the start page of an exam system or an exam portal page with a list of links to current exams. If SEB for iOS is installed using a mobile device management (MDM) system, its initial configuration can easily be deployed using the "MDM Managed Configuration" feature. You can also directly start an exam with an individual configuration in SEB for iOS using a special config hyperlink. This link can be opened by examinees from Safari, Mail or a messenger app. In addition, you can use QR codes containing SEB links or even full, individual configurations. An exam can directly be started in SEB by using the iOS Camera app or the built-in QR code scanner.
SEB also works together with Apple Classroom, teachers can start individually configured exams on all student devices. See https://safeexambrowser.org/ios for more information.
SafeExamBrowser for iOS was developed by Daniel R. Schneider, ETH Zurich, IT Services, based on the original idea of Safe Exam Browser by Stefan Schneider, University of Giessen
Project concept: Thomas Piendl, Daniel R. Schneider, Damian Büchel
SEB uses one of the single app modes provided by iOS. After an exam is submitted, SEB can automatically end the app self-lock assessment mode (an exam invigilator could also use a quit password to end the SEB exam session and unlock the device if necessary).
SEB features an optional Dock displaying buttons for various commands. Instead or in addition, a left slider menu shows a list of open browser tabs and commands which can be used to (if enabled in settings) quit an exam session, jump back to the start page of an exam, reload a web page, and navigate back/forward in the browsing history.
SEB for iOS uses the same format for encrypted .seb configuration files as the SEB versions for other platforms. Those config files allow to individually configure SEB to display the start page of an exam system or an exam portal page with a list of links to current exams. If SEB for iOS is installed using a mobile device management (MDM) system, its initial configuration can easily be deployed using the "MDM Managed Configuration" feature. You can also directly start an exam with an individual configuration in SEB for iOS using a special config hyperlink. This link can be opened by examinees from Safari, Mail or a messenger app. In addition, you can use QR codes containing SEB links or even full, individual configurations. An exam can directly be started in SEB by using the iOS Camera app or the built-in QR code scanner.
SEB also works together with Apple Classroom, teachers can start individually configured exams on all student devices. See https://safeexambrowser.org/ios for more information.
SafeExamBrowser for iOS was developed by Daniel R. Schneider, ETH Zurich, IT Services, based on the original idea of Safe Exam Browser by Stefan Schneider, University of Giessen
Project concept: Thomas Piendl, Daniel R. Schneider, Damian Büchel
Latest updates
3.7.2
• Improved stability: fixed several crashes that could occur at launch, while browsing, or when reading settings.
• No more silent white screen: if a web page fails to load (server error) or the web content process stops unexpectedly, SEB now shows a load error with a Retry option instead of a blank page.
• Clearer configuration download errors: if a server returns no valid settings (an HTTP error or an empty response), SEB shows a clear "Downloading Settings Failed" message instead of a misleading "settings are corrupted" error.
• Reading corrupted or incomplete configuration data no longer crashes the app.
• You can now configure the allowed SEB versions restriction directly in the iOS Settings.
• Clearer Assessment Mode errors: if the Assessment Mode (AAC) can't be started (for example because an assessment session is already active), SEB now shows the specific reason instead of only a generic message.
• Various stability and reliability improvements.
3.7.1
- Fetch & embed server certificates by URL: in Settings › Network › Certificates you can fetch a server's certificate over HTTPS and embed it (verify its SHA-256 fingerprint before embedding).
- "Allow iOS screen capture" setting to control screen recording / AirPlay / cable mirroring during an exam has now a new, iOS-specific key allowScreenCaptureiOS.
- You can now enter a custom browser User Agent string (and suffix) directly in the iOS Settings.
- In-page text search now also finds text inside iFrames, and no longer clears text you typed into open-answer fields. Now it also shows the number of found search text occurrences.
- Support for running on the latest iOS version.
- iCloud Documents capability caused AAC to deactivate with a specific MDM restriction: Removed the iCloud Documents capability, as it's no longer necessary for files from iCloud drive being automatically downloaded when opening them in SEB.
- Fixed: User Agent string with trailing space caused web app error.
- Added Compatibility for Passwords Containing Accented Characters.
- Fixed: SEB-JSON floating point serialization differs between Windows and macOS/iOS, which could lead to a different Config Key.
- Allowed SEB Versions: exams can now require specific SEB versions. If your version isn't allowed, SEB explains the requirement and offers to update via the App Store.
- Various stability and reliability improvements.
Optional features which need to be individually configured and are disabled by default:
- Screen Proctoring: if connecting to the proctoring service fails, SEB now shows an error and lets you retry.
- Fixed some more random crashes when using screen proctoring.
Store changes
What SafeExamBrowser changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
App got smaller
71 MB → 62 MB (-12%)
Needs a newer iOS
iOS 12.0 → iOS 13.0