LearningFlow LearningFlow vs Tome
Tome made better-looking decks than we do, and its themed output and live embeds were ahead of anything we ship. It closed on 30 April 2025 and deleted the stored files, which is why we argue a deck should arrive as a file you keep.
Presentations · Sources last read 13 September 2026
Choose Tome if
When the deliverable really is one persuasive page behind a link, a focused presentation tool wins, though it can no longer be Tome.
- A founder sends one investor story to a stranger who opens it on a phone, with no account
- A Figma prototype or a Mode dashboard has to stay clickable inside the story, not become a screenshot
- You want to see who opened the deck and how far they read before you ring them
Choose LearningFlow if
The deck is one piece of work among several, and a named group of people has to do something with it afterwards.
- The slides, the handout and the marking sheet all have to open in PowerPoint and Excel
- A Year 7 class is set the work, sits it, and the results land in the school's own learning record store
- A teacher leaves in July and the department still needs the term's materials
Where the two are built differently.
One part of the job, done well.
This is a good product at what it does. The question for a school is what else is on the invoice: each remaining job is another product, another bill, another set of logins, and a handover you do by hand every time.
Idea to a class that has done it.
One login, one pool of credits, one place the spending shows up. A video drops into a lesson, the lesson becomes an assignment, the assignment writes to a base and an app reads it — nothing is exported and re-imported.
What each one does.
Written from each product's own documentation. Where something is true only on a higher tier, the row says so.
| Tome | LearningFlow | |
|---|---|---|
| Buying it today | Not possible. Tome Slides shut down on 30 April 2025, sign-in stopped that day and stored files were deleted. | Available, and no subscription is required, because credits are the thing you buy. |
| What you take away | PDF export, on the paid plan only, and Tome warned that videos, narrations and live links stop working in it. | .pptx, .xlsx, .docx, .mp4 and .mp3 come back from Work with AI, with spreadsheet formulas still live. |
| Deck craft and themes | One prompt produced a coherently themed, well-typeset narrative instead of a bullet list. | Slides are built by python-pptx and LibreOffice Impress, so they are plainer than a designed template. |
| Live tiles in the page | Figma, Spline, Miro, Typeform, Mode and Google Sheets sat inside the story and stayed interactive. | No embedded live tiles. A chart arrives as an image, or as a sheet with the formulas in it. |
| Who owns the work | A tome belonged to the account that made it, and access was granted per document from that account. | The organisation. orgId is stamped at creation and never moves, so removing a member deletes a membership row. |
| What each member can do | Sharing was set per document, from no access through view, comment and edit, with an optional password or email gate. | Seven capabilities switch per member, including work-with-ai, solution-designer and base. |
| What a seat cost | $20 per user per month, or $16 billed annually, on the Pro tier. Historical figures, not purchasable. | Nothing per seat. Credits are drawn from a wallet rather than charged per seat, and personal and organisation wallets stay separate. |
| Calling it from your own software | No public API or developer documentation on any tier. Integrations meant embedding other tools inside a tome. | POST /task/:taskId with an x-api-key, with optional SSE streaming and per-key credit top-up. |
What comes with it here.
A narrated video from one sentence
Whiteboard Studio turns a sentence into a narrated MP4 in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, with subtitles off, as a sidecar .srt, or burned in.
Several apps, one database
One solution can hold the app staff sign into, a webhook other software posts to, and a nightly job, all over the same data. Each holds its own contract, scoped to named tables, named columns and a row filter.
59 tools already sitting there
Lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, worksheets, report comments, text levelling and YouTube questions are in the public gallery before you build anything.
You pick the model
Flow Designer reaches Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek among others, and no plan or seat gates that list.
Where Tome was the better tool
If the deliverable is one persuasive page and nothing else, Tome beat us at it, and a live tool in that category still will. A marketer launching a product to 300 strangers wants the themed narrative, the working Figma tile and the list of who read to the end. Our slides are built by python-pptx and look plainer than that. That buyer should pick a dedicated presentation tool, while noting that Tome itself closed on 30 April 2025.
The whole stack against Tome.
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 | Tome | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 we still buy Tome for our school or training team?
No. Tome Slides shut down on 30 April 2025. Sign-in stopped that day and stored user data was deleted. The help centre announcement survives only as the archived copy linked below. Any page still quoting $20 per user per month is stale.
We kept PDFs exported from Tome. Can we get anything back out of them?
Partly. Work with AI reads PDFs with PyMuPDF, so the words and tables of a text PDF can be pulled into a new deck or worksheet. A scanned page will not read, because there is no OCR in the sandbox. Anything that was a video or a live embed was already lost at export.
Can we run LearningFlow alongside a presentation tool?
Yes, and for design work you should. Work with AI hands you a .pptx that opens in whatever tool your brand templates live in, and a flow can be called from your own software with POST /task/:taskId and an x-api-key.
What happens to a teacher's materials when they leave in July?
They stay with the organisation. orgId is stamped when the flow, base or app is made and never moves between organisations, so removing a member deletes their membership row and not the work. An admin can list org-library tools whose owner has gone and reassign them.
Is it fair to compare against a product that shut down?
Only as a lesson about the category, and we would rather say that than pretend a rivalry. Tome was good and widely used, and its founders moved on to a CRM called Lightfield. The risk it shows is real: work that exists only as a hosted link inside one vendor leaves when the vendor does.
Where this came from. Read on 13 September 2026. Tome changes its product and its prices without telling us, so check anything that decides a purchase.
- Tome Help Center: Tome Slides is Sunsetting on April 30th, 2025 (archived; original now 404) ↗
- Tome: Plans and Pricing, last live capture 13 May 2025 (archived) ↗
- Tome Help Center: Can I export or download my tome? (PDF only, Pro only) ↗
- Tome Help Center: How do I upgrade to Tome Pro? ($20 monthly, $16 billed annually) ↗
- Tome: Security page (SOC 2 Type I; Type II in progress) ↗
Try it on your own work.
Teachers get credits every month, free. No card, no seat count.