LearningFlow LearningFlow vs Bolt.new
Bolt.new turns a prompt into a live web app, with a database, sign-in, a custom domain and the source code on GitHub, and it is good at that. LearningFlow is built differently. One solution can hold several apps over one shared database, each app with its own permissions on named tables and columns.
App builders · Sources last read 13 September 2026
Choose Bolt.new if
Bolt is the right call when the deliverable is a public, production web product that developers will later maintain.
- A booking site on your own domain, taking payments through Stripe
- A prototype a contract developer will take over as a GitHub repository
- A marketing microsite that needs file storage, sign-ups and traffic analytics
Choose LearningFlow if
LearningFlow is the right call when the app sits inside a school or training team that has to keep control of it.
- A school where 40 teachers draw on one credit wallet instead of 40 subscriptions
- A rubric that has to arrive as a .docx, and a mark sheet as an .xlsx with formulas
- A Year 7 class with join codes and assignments, and records posted to the school LRS
Where the two are built differently.
One app, one database.
One app means one door. Whatever the form is allowed to do, it is allowed to do everywhere. Stopping a parent from reading the other thirty replies is a rule you write inside the app, and have to keep writing correctly.
Several apps, one base, a contract each.
Each app holds its own contract: which tables, which columns, which rows, and which of read, insert, update and delete. The reminder never sees a medical note. Suspend one app and the other two keep running.
What each one does.
Written from each product's own documentation. Where something is true only on a higher tier, the row says so.
| Bolt.new | LearningFlow | |
|---|---|---|
| Who can hold an account | Builder identities only: Admin, Billing Admin and Member on a team, Viewer, Editor and Co-owner on a project. | Students are a first-class user type, with their own accounts, join codes and assignments. |
| Switching a feature off for one person | Team policies apply to the whole team. The per-member control is the seat and its token tier. | Seven capabilities switched per member, including work-with-ai, solution-designer and base. |
| One budget for the team | Tokens are assigned to each member and stay with the person who accrued them. They are not pooled. | Credits from an organisation wallet, and no subscription is required. |
| Choosing the model | Two agents, Standard and Max. Max needs a paid plan, and the underlying model is never named. | Flow Designer reaches Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek among others, with no plan gate. |
| Office files out | A deployed site, or a ZIP of source. Bolt Slides exports PDF and JSON, not .pptx. | Work with AI returns .pptx, .docx and .xlsx with working formulas, plus .mp4, .mp3 and .png. |
| Driving it from your own software | No public API or SDK. A CLI that pushes and pulls projects is in invite-only private beta. Bolt can also connect out to MCP servers you configure. | POST /task/:taskId with an x-api-key and optional streaming, plus signed webhooks and cron schedules. |
| Custom domain and hosting | Buy or connect a domain in the product, with SSL, file storage, server functions and analytics. | A published app gets its own address and sign-in, hosted here. There is no custom domain. |
| Taking the code away | Export the project as a ZIP and run it locally with Node, or sync both ways with GitHub. | Apps run on LearningFlow. What leaves is a flow's address and an API key your own software calls. |
The account holds the work.
Someone has to ask her to hand it over, or it goes with her.
The work was made on a personal login, so recovering it is a favour rather than a setting. Schools discover this in August, when the person who built the scheme of work no longer answers email.
The organisation holds the work.
Ms Okafor's key is revoked. The work has not moved.
People hold keys, not possessions. Removing someone removes their key. Whoever teaches 6C next September opens the same library and the same base, on their first morning, without asking anyone for a copy.
What comes with it here.
59 tools already built
A lesson plan, a marking rubric, a Year 7 quiz, questions from a YouTube video: 59 tools sit in a public gallery, ready to run. Build your own on the canvas, which refuses a connection that would not work.
A narrated whiteboard video
One sentence becomes a narrated MP4, in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, with subtitles off, as a sidecar .srt, or burned in. Correct a scene and only that scene is redrawn.
Records in xAPI, to your LRS
Ingest an xAPI package, use the learning record store (LRS) that ships with LearningFlow, or point it at the LRS your school or company already runs.
Sub-organisations for resellers
An enterprise can sit above its customer organisations, with wholesale credit pools, per-currency exchange rates, volume tiers, margin limits, and Stripe or senangPay taking the payment.
Where Bolt.new is the better choice
If the deliverable is a real public product, Bolt is the shorter road, and it is not close. You get hosting, a custom domain with SSL, file storage, server functions, Stripe and analytics, and the whole project exports as a ZIP or syncs both ways with GitHub, so a contract developer can take it over and maintain it without Bolt. Bolt is also SOC 2 Type 2 certified and offers a bring-your-own-key option that runs it inside your own AWS or Azure account. For one standalone internal app with no organisation around it, start there.
The whole stack against Bolt.new.
The table above compares the two at the job they share. This one runs every capability past both, because what a school is choosing between is usually a tool that does one job and a workspace that does many. Hover any mark to see what it means, and a partial one to see exactly what is limited.
| LearningFlow | Bolt.new | |
|---|---|---|
| Ask and read | ||
| Chat with AI | ||
| Research the web and write it up | ||
| Read text off an image or a scan | ||
| Agent browses the live web | ||
| Make | ||
| PowerPoint deck | ||
| Spreadsheet with working formulas | ||
| Word document | ||
| Image generation | ||
| Video generation | ||
| Narrated whiteboard video, corrected scene by scene | ||
| Voice-over | ||
| Song generation | ||
| Interactive web page | ||
| Edit what it made, online | ||
| Slide and design templates | ||
| Presenter on camera, from a photo you supply | ||
| Teach | ||
| Ready-made teacher tools | ||
| Build your own tool, no code | ||
| Lesson that branches on the answer | ||
| Hears them read aloud, checks pronunciation | ||
| Assign to a class with a join code | ||
| Assignments and submissions | ||
| Student accounts | ||
| LTI link from your LMS | ||
| Learning records to your own LRS | ||
| SCORM 1.2 package out | ||
| Build | ||
| Working app | ||
| Full working platform templates | ||
| Several apps over one database, rights each | ||
| App sends email or WhatsApp | ||
| App runs on a schedule | ||
| App accepts webhooks | ||
| Generate real-time apps | ||
| Generate AI-driven apps | ||
| Shared database | ||
| Revoke one app's access, not the others | ||
| Run | ||
| Run any tool from your own software | ||
| Choose the AI model, on every plan | ||
| Switch a feature off per group | ||
| Organisation keeps the work when staff leave | ||
| We do not do this | ||
| Transcribe a video or audio file | ||
| Custom domain for a published app | ||
Before they decide.
Can I move a Bolt project into LearningFlow?
Not as code. Bolt exports JavaScript source, and LearningFlow builds from a description, so you rebuild by describing what the app does. Running both is common: Bolt for the public product on its own domain, LearningFlow for the classroom-facing apps, the teaching material and the class records.
Does LearningFlow give me a custom domain and card payments?
No custom domain. A published app gets its own address and sign-in on LearningFlow, and it can call Gmail, Resend, WhatsApp, Firecrawl, web search, speech-to-text and image or video generation, with the credentials held server-side so the app never stores a secret. If you are selling to the public on your own domain, Bolt is the better fit.
What does a team of 20 cost on each?
Bolt Teams is $30 per member per month, roughly $600 a month for 20 seats, and tokens are assigned per person rather than pooled, so a quiet seat is still paid for. LearningFlow spends credits from an organisation wallet, and no subscription is required, so a department that runs nothing that month costs nothing.
Does either product do SCORM?
LearningFlow does now, for video: a finished Whiteboard Studio video exports as a SCORM 1.2 zip with the MP4 inside it, and the LMS is marked complete once the learner has actually watched enough of it. SCORM 1.2 only, and only the video — decks, quizzes and apps still report over xAPI, to the self-hosted SQL LRS or the one your organisation already runs. Bolt has no learning record concept, because it is not built for teaching.
What can the LearningFlow agent not do?
Its Linux sandbox has no network, no ffmpeg and no OCR, so it will not transcribe audio, watch a video or read a scanned page. What it does do is build the file: a spreadsheet with working formulas, a deck, a document, using Python, LibreOffice and Pandoc.
Where this came from. Read on 13 September 2026. Bolt.new changes its product and its prices without telling us, so check anything that decides a purchase.
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