Qconcursos is the default starting point for anyone preparing for a Brazilian public sector exam. Its 1.5 million question bank is genuinely huge, the filters are excellent, and the community comments keep it honest. But two limits push serious concurseiros to look elsewhere: video coverage is thinner than the specialist platforms, and there is almost nothing built around structured PDF material from teachers who actually write the aulas.
If that gap bothers you, this guide compares seven Qconcursos alternatives worth a look in 2026. We grouped them by what they actually do well, so you can match the tool to the phase of preparation you are in.
Why people leave Qconcursos
- Videos are the weak link. Qconcursos leans on questions and lightweight commentary. If you learn best from a teacher on screen explaining a topic end to end, the coverage gets frustrating fast.
- No first-party PDFs. Estratégia built its brand on dense PDF apostilas. Qconcursos never matched that library, and copying material from external sources into the app is clumsy.
- Simulado depth caps out. Users on concurseiro forums often mention that simulados for smaller cargos or newer editais are underdeveloped compared to what specialist platforms ship the week the edital is published.
- Pricing keeps climbing. The annual plan is comfortable enough for hobby study, but once you are studying for more than one concurso in parallel, it stacks up against Gran or TEC bundles that include video plus PDFs.
Which concurso app should you pick?
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Gran Cursos Online if you want the biggest video and PDF library and a plan that covers most editais currently open. It is the most expensive on this list and worth it if video is how you learn.
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Estratégia Concursos if PDFs are your primary study material and you want teacher analyses next to every question.
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TEC Concursos if questões and expert commentary are your bottleneck. The comment quality on hard questions is often the differentiator against Qconcursos.
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Simulado de Concursos Públicos if you want free, unlimited simulados without a subscription. Best paired with a paid platform for theory.
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Aprovado - Study Timer if your problem is routine, not content. Track hours, cycle subjects, and hold yourself accountable.
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EmÁudio Concursos if you commute or drive and want doutrina and jurisprudência in audio format for the parts of the day when a screen is not an option.
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Concurseiro Pro if your target is a police or military exam and you want past questions from PM, PF, and PRF editais bundled cheaply.
If you are just starting out and only prepping for one concurso, stay on Qconcursos. The free tier plus a monthly Premium is still the cheapest way to get to 5,000 answered questões. The case for switching gets stronger once you need video, PDFs, or you are cycling through multiple editais in a year.
Comparison at a glance
| App | Best for | Free plan | Starting price | Standout feature |
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| Gran Cursos Online | Video-first learners | Sample lessons | From R$ 59.90/mo | 200,000+ video classes |
| Estratégia Concursos | PDF study | Free question sampler | Around R$ 89/mo | 2M+ questions with teacher analysis |
| TEC Concursos | Question depth | Sample questions | Around R$ 39/mo | 1.5M questions with expert comments |
| Simulado de Concursos Públicos | Free simulados | Full app free | Free (ads) | Unlimited simulados |
| Aprovado - Study Timer | Study routine | Full timer free | Free / small paid | Pomodoro-style study cycles |
| EmÁudio Concursos | Commuter prep | Free samples | Around R$ 39/mo | Audio-first doutrina |
| Concurseiro Pro | Police / military | Free tier | Free / paid | Focused past-exam banks |
1. Gran Cursos Online, best for video-first learners
Gran Cursos is the deepest video library on the Brazilian concursos market. It ships over 200,000 video classes covering the main cargos, from básico to aprofundado, plus downloadable PDFs, audio versions of the classes, simulados, and mapas mentais. The app supports offline video, so long train commutes are viable without burning data.
The platform also runs live turmas ahead of major editais, which is worth checking when the edital for your target concurso drops. Reviews consistently point out that the class quality is uneven across professors, so previewing a couple of trial classes before committing is a smart move.
Where it falls short: The subscription is the most expensive on this list, and if you only need questões, most of the video library goes unused. The app can be heavy on older Android devices with the video offline cache active.
Pricing:
- Free: sample classes and limited questões
- Paid: from R$ 59.90/month on the annual plan (Assinatura Ilimitada 3.0)
- vs Qconcursos: pricier per month, but bundles video, PDFs, and questions in one plan
Migrating from Qconcursos: No formal import. Rebuild your subject list inside Gran’s plano de estudos, then use the app’s cross-reference to Qconcursos-style filters (banca, ano, cargo) to reproduce your favourite question caderno in a couple of hours.
Bottom line: Pick Gran if you learn by watching a teacher explain a topic end to end. Skip it if you already have theory covered and just want more questões.
2. Estratégia Concursos, best for PDF study
Estratégia built its reputation on dense, cargo-specific PDFs written by teachers who follow their subject closely. The app carries the same brand: over two million questões, custom filters by banca and ano, teacher analyses in text or video for many questions, and around 1,500 podcasts for audio review.
The strongest use case is combining the PDF library on the web with the app for questões on the go. If your study routine is “read the aula, then answer 100 questões about it,” the loop works cleanly.
Where it falls short: Recent app-store ratings have been weak, driven by stability complaints on Android and pricing shifts. The web experience is stronger than the mobile one, and the two are not fully in sync for all cargos.
Pricing:
- Free: sample questões and podcast episodes
- Paid: around R$ 89/month on annual bundles that include PDFs plus questões
- vs Qconcursos: PDF-first vs question-first, similar monthly cost once you bundle
Migrating from Qconcursos: Rebuild your caderno by filtering by banca, disciplina, and ano in the app. Cross-linking a Qconcursos-exported list of past errors into Estratégia is a manual copy job, budget an hour.
Bottom line: The right pick if PDF apostilas are the backbone of how you study. Not a fit if your priority is a fast, mobile-first question grinder.
3. TEC Concursos, best for question depth
TEC Concursos is the closest structural competitor to Qconcursos: a 1.5-million-question bank built around filtering by banca, ano, cargo, and disciplina, with expert commentary on the harder questions. The clearest edge is comment quality. Where Qconcursos leans on user comments, TEC leans on paid especialistas, which tends to help when the resposta padrão is disputed.
Offline mode ships with the plan and covers past-exam PDFs, useful for concurseiros who study on public transport with patchy data.
Where it falls short: Video coverage is thin. If you want a full aula on a topic you have never seen, TEC will send you elsewhere for the theory and then bring you back for the questões.
Pricing:
- Free: sample questions and filters
- Paid: monthly plans starting around R$ 39/month; annual plans reduce the effective cost
- vs Qconcursos: comparable pricing, comment quality is the differentiator
Migrating from Qconcursos: Recreate your favourite filter combinations manually. TEC does not import from other question banks, and comment history does not transfer.
Bottom line: The best like-for-like Qconcursos vs TEC swap when the deciding factor is who explains the hard questions better.
4. Simulado de Concursos Públicos, best free option
A no-frills, ads-supported app built around a single job: unlimited simulados for the most common cargos. It ships with question packs for tribunais, INSS, PF, PM, IBGE, banking exams, and the classic ENEM-style geral catch-alls. There is no video, no PDF, and no elaborate progress dashboard, which is exactly the point.
The most useful workflow is running a 60-question simulado every morning, then feeding your errors back into a paid platform for deeper theory. That combination gives you Qconcursos-level breadth of practice without the subscription cost during the first weeks of prep.
Where it falls short: Ads are frequent on the free tier and interrupt the flow between questões. Question metadata is uneven; some packs cite the banca and ano, others do not. Do not rely on it as your only tool for a serious concurso.
Pricing:
- Free: the full app with banner and interstitial ads
- Paid: small one-off IAP removes ads
- vs Qconcursos: free vs paid; use as a complement, not a replacement
Migrating from Qconcursos: No overlap at the account level. Just install and start a simulado; there is nothing to transfer.
Bottom line: Install it alongside whatever paid platform you already use. It is the cheapest way to add a daily simulado habit.
5. Aprovado - Study Timer, best for study routine
Aprovado is not a content platform, and that is why it belongs here. It is a study timer built specifically for concurseiros: pomodoro-style cycles, subject rotation, ciclo de estudos in weekly or biweekly windows, and detailed reports on hours per matéria. The one-million-plus install base skews heavily toward long-haul concurseiros who need external accountability.
Pair it with Qconcursos, Gran, or TEC. Aprovado becomes the accountability layer, while the paid platform provides the content.
Where it falls short: There is no content, no questions, and no video. If you already have a strong routine on your own, this app duplicates what a paper caderno already does.
Pricing:
- Free: the full timer, the ciclo builder, and the reports
- Paid: a small IAP removes ads and unlocks widgets
- vs Qconcursos: unrelated categories, use together
Migrating from Qconcursos: Not applicable, there is no content overlap.
Bottom line: Install it the first week you commit to a long concurso. The reports are what stops you from lying to yourself about how many hours you actually studied last week.
6. EmÁudio Concursos, best for commuter prep
EmÁudio takes doutrina, legislação, and jurisprudência and turns them into narrated audio content organized by cargo. The app is built for the parts of your day when a screen is out of the question: driving to work, walking the dog, standing in line at the cartório. Content coverage is strongest for the classic tribunal and INSS cargos.
The audio-first design does not try to replace question grinding. It is a supplement that keeps your ear tuned to the specific vocabulary of your cargo when you cannot open a PDF.
Where it falls short: Depth is uneven outside the main cargos. If your target is a niche concurso, verify coverage before subscribing. The interface is functional but plain.
Pricing:
- Free: sample audio content and previews
- Paid: monthly plans start around R$ 39/month; annual plans lower the effective rate
- vs Qconcursos: complementary, not a swap. Use EmÁudio for offline hours, Qconcursos for the questões
Migrating from Qconcursos: Nothing to transfer. Pick your cargo in EmÁudio and start with the shared foundational content (constituição, direito administrativo).
Bottom line: The right add-on if you have a long commute. Not enough on its own for a serious concurso, but a great use of otherwise dead hours.
7. Concurseiro Pro, best for police and military exams
Concurseiro Pro focuses on the past-exam banks for PM, PF, PRF, TSE, INSS, CAIXA, and CNU editais, with simulados that mirror the actual proof structure. It is the kind of app that a candidate for a specific police or federal cargo installs when the edital drops and works through the entire question archive in the six weeks before the exam.
The interface is minimal and the emphasis is on volume: filter by banca, generate a 100-question simulado, review the gabarito, repeat.
Where it falls short: The theory side is thin. There are no aulas or PDFs; treat it as a targeted question bank. Content updates for newer editais can lag behind the specialist platforms.
Pricing:
- Free: baseline access to past-exam questões with ads
- Paid: small IAP for ad-free access and premium simulados
- vs Qconcursos: narrower cargo focus, cheaper monthly cost
Migrating from Qconcursos: Not applicable. Pick your cargo, start a simulado.
Bottom line: A cheap, focused companion for police and military candidates in the last weeks before the exam. Skip it if your cargo is administrative or judicial.
FAQ
Is Gran Cursos better than Qconcursos? It depends on how you learn. Gran wins on video and PDF depth; Qconcursos wins on questão volume and community comments. Most approved concurseiros end up using both at different phases of preparation, with Gran early for theory and Qconcursos in the last months for practice.
Can I import my data from Qconcursos into another platform? No. There is no data-export standard across Brazilian concursos platforms. You have to rebuild your favourite filters and study lists manually on the new app.
What is the cheapest Qconcursos alternative? Simulado de Concursos Públicos and Aprovado - Study Timer are both free at their core, with small IAPs. They cover different jobs (unlimited simulados vs study routine) and both pair well with a paid platform for theory.
Is there a free Qconcursos plan? Qconcursos has a free tier with a capped number of questões per day and limited filters. It is enough to evaluate the app, not enough for a serious concurso schedule.
What do concurseiros use instead of Qconcursos in 2026? The most common stacks are Gran Cursos plus TEC Concursos, or Estratégia plus Qconcursos. The pattern is one platform for video or PDF theory and another for high-volume question practice. Aprovado sits on top of both for routine tracking.
Which app has the best simulados? For volume, Simulado de Concursos Públicos is the widest coverage on a free plan. For proof-fidelity simulados (same time limit, same distribution as the real exam), Gran Cursos and Estratégia both ship official simulados close to each edital drop.
