Comparison
Bobbin x Lessonspace: Compared
Looking for an online whiteboard for your tutoring business? Here’s a breakdown of the features, prices, and benefits of both Bobbin and Lessonspace to help you choose.
Overview
Bobbin is a new AI-powered lesson platform from the team behind TutorCruncher that integrates Lessonspace’s comprehensive online whiteboard.
When choosing between the two, the question isn’t “which is better”, more “which is right for my tutoring business”. Both include Lessonspace’s interactive whiteboard, but Bobbin includes additional features such as lesson planning, reporting, and analytics.
One will give you an excellent online classroom experience; the other provides wrap-around support with the whole lesson, including for in-person sessions.
Features at a glance
Both give you the Lessonspace classroom. Only one wraps planning, reporting and analytics around it.
What is it
Bobbin
Live online classroom
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AI lesson planning
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Automatic transcription
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Parent-ready reports
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Progress analytics
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In-person lessons
Bobbin
Best for
Bobbin
What is Lessonspace?
Lessonspace is a virtual classroom for online tutoring. It gives tutors and students a collaborative, shared workspace to run live lessons online. With a digital whiteboard, video and chat functions, screen sharing, and subject-specific tools like a graphic editor, it has everything you need to run tutoring lessons online.
Lessonspace works across desktop and mobile, supports several languages, and integrates with tutoring platforms including TutorCruncher, Teachworks and TutorBird.
Lessonspace is great at:
- Running the live lesson: whiteboard, video, chat and screen share
- Subject-specific, user-friendly tools that make lessons engaging
- Real-time collaboration with shared documents and editors
- Recording and replaying sessions
- Plugging into an existing tutoring management system via its API
Lessonspace's features are why we chose it as Bobbin’s integrated online whiteboard.
What is Bobbin?
Bobbin is more than a Lessonspace alternative. It’s the AI-powered lesson platform built by the team behind TutorCruncher. It handles the whole lesson flow, from planning to delivery and reporting, all in one place so no threads get lost and every session builds on the last.
Simply tell Bobbin what you are teaching and get a structured, curriculum-aligned lesson plan in seconds. Deliver lessons online or in-person and Bobbin delivers accurate transcripts, and detailed lesson reports. Over time, it tracks each student’s progress and engagement so you can see how they are doing at a glance.
What you get with Bobbin
AI lesson planning
Curriculum-aligned plans with objectives, resources and extra reading, adapted to subject, level and exam board.
Built-in online classroom
Lessonspace online whiteboard and video are fully integrated, so you only need a Bobbin account.
In-person lesson recording
Capture in-person learning with the Bobbin app.
Automatic capture
Lessons are transcribed as they happen, online or in person, so you never need to worry about notetaking again.
Parent-ready reports
Detailed, fully editable progress reports are generated from each lesson, so you can keep parents in the loop with ease.
The result?
High-quality lessons, consistent across all your tutors, less time spent on your weekly admin load, and better client retention with parents kept up to date on student progress.
What’s the key difference?
The key difference between Lessonspace and Bobbin is the focus on online lesson delivery or the whole lesson workflow.
Bobbin
The whole lesson workflow
Bobbin supports your tutors to plan great lessons, deliver them online or in-person, keep track of progress and report back to your clients. It’s a powerful tool to upgrade your lesson experience and free up time for your tutors to focus on teaching.
Lessonspace
The live online lesson
Lessonspace provides a high-quality online lesson space for tutors to run lessons from, but doesn’t connect the dots between sessions.
Pricing overview
When comparing pricing, remember that Bobbin includes the classroom and the wrap-around tools. Lessonspace is the online whiteboard only.
Every plan includes planning and reporting tools.
- Starter$109 (£79) /month80 lesson hours included
- Plus$259 (£189) /month200 lesson hours included
- Pro$389 (£289) /month320 lesson hours included
- Custom500+ hoursPricing tailored to your business
Covers the online classroom only.
- Basic$9 /monthIncludes 10 hours
- Starter$29 /monthIncludes 30 hours
- Pro$99 /monthIncludes 100 hours
- Advanced$199 /monthIncludes 200 hours
Which should I choose?
Choosing which one is right for you depends on your goals and what you need for your tutoring business.
If you’re looking to expand your business, improve client retention, save admin time for you and your tutors, and make sure your lesson quality is consistent, Bobbin is the stronger choice. The platform was designed to help tutoring businesses deliver quality lessons from start to finish.
If you’re looking for an online tutoring tool to deliver lessons from that plugs into your existing tutoring management system, Lessonspace may be right for you.
FAQs
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