Comparison

Filab vs Softbook LMS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Filab

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Inside the Filab app, you can: Access all of your videos in one easy to use app Receive push notifications with the latest news and updates Access to all of your videos without having to remember your password Save your favorite posts so you can quickly find them later END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Softbook LMS

Features
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Run your online school from your phone, and give your students the app they learn in. The same data as the browser, updated in real time. You need an account at a school that runs on Softbook. Without one, the app won't open. YOUR SCHOOL, RUN FROM A PHONE Students. A searchable list, and a card with courses, progress, access and payments. From that card you grant or revoke access to a course or a single lesson, assign a plan, or block a student. Money and sales. Revenue, sales trends, top products, learning metrics, filtered orders and unpaid invoices. An order opens with its contents, status and actions. Amounts are split by currency and the charts are built for a phone screen. You see how things are going without opening a laptop. CRM. Deals by stage, contacts, tasks. Overdue items are highlighted, a task with a deadline reminds you ahead of time, and a contact becomes a student in one move. Homework review. Filters, attachments, a grade, a comment, files in reply, accepted or rejected. Reviewing no longer waits for the evening at a desk. WHAT YOUR STUDENTS GET Courses and lessons open with everything you put in the builder: video, audio, images, PDFs, files, text, interactive tasks. Video plays at the quality and speed the student picks. Sequence rules and access limits work exactly as they do on the web, so the program doesn't drift between devices. Screen recording doesn't capture video in the app, so a paid course is harder to pass around. Tests run in every format the platform supports. The server handles both the grading and the clock: the score is the same everywhere, the countdown keeps going if the app moves to the background or the student switches to a computer, and an attempt started on a phone can be finished in the browser. On iPhone the time left shows on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island. Fewer dropped attempts, and fewer arguments that begin with "the app crashed on me." Homework comes in as text, a file, or a voice recording made right in the app: speaking practice a computer never gave you, and a whole assignment format for language schools. Certificates open in the app and the serial number copies out. Your graduate shows the result on their own, without coming back to ask you for it. Push arrives when work has been reviewed, a teacher has replied, or a scheduled session is about to start. Students stop missing things, because they aren't waiting on email. They choose which notifications they get, so it never turns into noise. TALKING INSIDE THE SCHOOL The school messenger: direct and group chats, files and photos, quoted replies, reactions, pinned messages, read receipts. What you read on a computer doesn't come back to your phone. Support requests to the school open in the same place, and one screen works for a student and for staff. A school feed with posts and comments, and lesson discussions with pre-moderation. The school turns this on and configures it. YOUR SCHOOL, IN YOUR COLORS When a student enters your school, the app takes on its brand colors and shows its logo. They are inside your school, not a neutral app. Settings changed on the web apply on the fly, and an action in the app triggers the same workflows as an action on the web. Several schools and several accounts switch with one tap, with no password to re-enter. The interface runs in eight languages. SIGNING IN Login and password, or Apple ID. You turn on Face ID and Touch ID locking yourself: it fires at launch and when the app returns from the background. A QR code replaces the password on a computer: point the camera at the code on the browser screen and the session is authorized. Anyone can report a post, comment or profile, and shut off contact with a particular person. ABOUT SOFTBOOK Schools have earned over $50M on Softbook. Over 1M students. We work in 57 countries. Support 24/7.

Screenshots

Filab3 screens
Softbook LMS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Softbook LMS at every 8 days against Filab's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Filab ships an update every 2 weeks, Softbook LMS every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Filab versus Softbook LMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFilabSoftbook LMS
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 8 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size37 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKhrystyna KosykSoftbook

In-app purchases

None

Filab

No in-app purchases

None

Softbook LMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Filab free?
Filab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Softbook LMS free?
Softbook LMS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Filab or Softbook LMS have ads?
Neither Filab nor Softbook LMS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Filab or Softbook LMS?
Filab ships an update every 2 weeks, and Softbook LMS every 8 days. Most recently, Filab was updated on September 27, 2026 and Softbook LMS on October 8, 2026.

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