LessonUp vs Mindsmith

LessonUp helps educators find, create, and teach interactive lessons in person or online, with reports and insights into student learning. Activities include multiple-choice questions, polls, drag-and-drop tasks, word clouds, hotspots, spinners, fill-in-the-blanks, and sorting. Teachers can import PowerPoint presentations and add interactive elements such as quizzes, mind maps, and open questions. A lesson library includes material from other educators and content partners. AI tools can assist with lessons, quizzes, rubrics, assignments, images, summaries, glossaries, and translations. LessonUp lists integrations with Canvas, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams for Education, and itslearning; school plans also list SURFconext SSO. The Free plan saves lesson results and includes some interactive features. Start costs $7 a month per teacher on a yearly subscription and includes VAT; it allows 10 lessons and 20 AI uses monthly. Pro costs $7.99 a month per teacher on a yearly subscription, includes VAT, and allows unlimited lessons and 50 AI uses monthly. LessonUp is available on web, Android, and iOS.

Mindsmith is an AI-native eLearning authoring tool for turning source material into interactive courses. It runs in a browser, with no installation, plugins, or desktop player required. Its tile-based editor and built-in AI are intended to help create lessons without design skills or complex tooling. A library of more than 30 interactive elements includes conversations, branching scenarios, quizzes, and simulations. Courses can be created in more than 70 languages and shared by link, dynamic or static SCORM, LTI 1.3, API, iframe, PDF, or web export. LTI 1.3 can launch lessons from compatible learning management systems and sync scores to their gradebooks. Analytics cover completion rates, score breakdowns, and answer distributions, with PDF export for results. The Free plan costs nothing, billed annually at $0/year, with 450 AI credits at signup as a one-time allocation. Professional costs $39 a month, billed annually at $468/year; Business costs $65 a month, billed annually at $780/year. Enterprise pricing is custom.