Classverse vs Pencil Spaces

Classverse is an online classroom for teachers, tutors, and training institutes. It supports scheduling, live teaching, quizzes, assignments, and attendance. Live classes combine video calls with a whiteboard, agenda, timers, breakout rooms, conversations, quizzes, assignments, and attendance tracking, with up to 50 participants. Teachers can invite students and send automatic notifications and calendar invitations. Class history can retain recordings, files, questions and answers, submissions, grades, and reports for access after a course. The service runs in a browser, with Android and iOS apps for students, and provides an API for custom workflows. The Free plan costs nothing forever, allows unlimited classrooms, 1 GB media storage, and up to five enrollments monthly, but has no recording. Essential costs $15 a month per teacher; Professional costs $23 a month per teacher.

Pencil Spaces is an online classroom for tutoring that combines live teaching, collaboration, session recording, and lesson management. Its browser-based classroom has persistent whiteboards, video calling, built-in resources, document annotation, and interactive web content. Teachers can manage student views and permissions, use waiting and breakout rooms, and receive private alerts when a student goes idle or switches tabs. Scheduling includes attendance tracking, automated scheduling, reminders, and engagement insights. Sessions can be recorded locally or in the cloud; cloud recording storage is 90 days on Expert and 12 months on Master. Starter is free, a 14-day trial is available, and paid plans start at $4/mo. Enterprise starts at $1,000/mo, with custom pricing from $0.002 per participant minute. Prices are in USD per session hour, not per person, and charges begin when a second person joins a Space. Some mobile features may be unavailable.