LearningFlow LearningFlow vs Gamma
Gamma makes a better-looking deck than we do, and it will publish that deck as a website on your own domain. LearningFlow treats a deck as one file among many, so the .pptx arrives beside the spreadsheet, the video and the lesson a Year 7 class has already been set.
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Choose Gamma if
Choose Gamma when the deck itself is the deliverable and it has to look finished without a designer.
- A CPD lead has twenty briefs to turn into on-brand decks before term starts.
- An old PowerPoint needs restyling, not rebuilding, by uploading the PPTX.
- A course microsite must sit on your own domain, with each slide's share of viewer attention reported.
Choose LearningFlow if
Choose LearningFlow when the deck is one step and the work has to reach named people and come back.
- The lesson needs a worksheet, a marking rubric and a marks sheet, not only slides.
- Two staff should have the solution designer switched on and nobody else.
- Students need their own accounts, a join code and something to hand in.
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.
| Gamma | LearningFlow | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the work | Gamma does not claim ownership and a removed member's gammas stay in the workspace, but folders start private and no reassignment tool is documented. | The organisation owns every flow, base and app from the moment it is made. Removing a teacher removes their access, not the work. |
| Switching features per person | Roles are Admin and Member only, with no per-capability toggles, and SCIM provisioning for joiners and leavers sits on Enterprise. | Seven capabilities are switched per member, including chat, flow-creator and solution-designer, once a role grants the key. |
| What a quiet user costs | Business is $40 per member per month billed annually, every accepted invite adds a seat and a bill, and removing a member does not reduce the billed seat count by itself. | Credits are the unit rather than seats, no subscription is required, and a member who runs nothing spends nothing. |
| Choosing the text model | Gamma selects the text model internally and its API exposes no model parameter, though image model choice is broad and priced per model. | Flow Designer reaches Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek among others, with no plan gate and only a per-organisation admin override. |
| Accounts for students | A workspace holds Admins, Members and link guests, with no classes, rosters or submissions, and the Terms ask users to be at least sixteen. | Students are a separate user type with their own accounts, join codes and assignments. |
| What the reporting shows | Pro and above see relative time spent per slide, given as a share of each viewer's total time, plus percentage of views per slide and unique viewers over the last 30 days. | xAPI statements go to a self-hosted SQL LRS or to your own LRS, but there is no per-slide view time on a published deck. |
| Handing out data access | Access is set per gamma and per folder at four levels, Full Access, Edit, Comment or View, and the highest level someone holds wins. | Each app gets a contract with seven separate permissions scoped to named tables, named columns and a row filter, with an expiry and a revocation mode. |
| Running it from your own code | The Generate API reached v1.0 in November 2025 on Pro and above, covering generation, export, search and analytics. | POST to /task/:taskId with an x-api-key, stream the result over SSE, and published apps also take signed webhooks and cron schedules. |
What comes with it here.
A machine that runs the numbers
Work with AI has Python 3.12, pandas and LibreOffice on a sandboxed Linux box, so a .xlsx comes back with its formulas still working.
A narrated whiteboard video
One sentence becomes an MP4, with subtitles off, burned into the picture, or in a separate .srt file, and a scene you correct is the only one redrawn.
59 tools already built
The public gallery holds lesson plans, rubrics, quizzes, worksheets, report comments, text levelling and YouTube questions, ready to run.
The app never holds a password
A published app calls Gmail, Resend, WhatsApp, web search or speech-to-text with the credentials injected server-side.
Where Gamma is the better choice
If the deck is the deliverable, Gamma wins on craft. A marketing or CPD lead with twenty briefs to turn into on-brand decks gets themes, custom fonts and colours, workspace templates, an existing PPTX restyled on upload, and over 35 named image models with the credit cost shown before you generate. The same artefact then publishes as a website on your own domain and reports which slides held attention, as a share of each viewer's total time on the page. LearningFlow has none of that, and a deck from our sandbox arrives as a plain .pptx you style yourself.
The whole stack against Gamma.
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 | Gamma | |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
We already make our decks in Gamma. Can we keep it and run both?
Yes, and for a team that lives on decks that is often the sensible split. Gamma exports PDF, PNG and PPTX, and an API export link lasts about a week and anyone holding it can download the file, so save the file rather than the link. Work with AI has python-pptx and LibreOffice on a sandboxed Linux machine, so it builds what goes around the deck: the worksheet, and a marks sheet that arrives as an .xlsx with its formulas working.
A teacher leaves in July. What happens to what they built?
Gamma keeps it in the workspace. Its help centre says gammas a removed member created stay put and only their access changes, but folders start private until shared and no ownership-transfer tool is documented. In LearningFlow the orgId is stamped at creation and never moves, so removing the member deletes their membership row and not the object. An admin can also list org-library tools whose owner has left and reassign them in one step.
What does this cost for a department of 30?
Gamma Business is $40 per member per month billed annually, so 30 seats is about $14,400 a year with SSO and pooled credits; SCIM and audit logs need Enterprise on custom pricing. Thirty Pro seats are roughly $6,480 a year but without SSO, and on Business a removed member's seat keeps billing until an admin lowers the seat count. LearningFlow bills credits rather than seats, with no subscription required, and personal, organisation and enterprise wallets are kept separate.
Can students have their own accounts?
Not in Gamma. A workspace has Admins and Members plus link-level guests, and guests cannot create gammas, browse folders or see the member list. There are no classes, rosters, assignments or submissions, and the Terms ask a user to be at least sixteen. In LearningFlow students are a first-class user type with their own accounts, join codes and assignments.
Who picks the AI model, and is our content used for training?
Gamma picks the text model internally, its API takes no model parameter, and the most advanced text, image and video models sit on the higher tiers; image model choice is genuinely broad, with the credit cost shown per model. On Free, Plus, Pro and Ultra the setting allowing content to improve Gamma's AI is on by default with a per-user opt-out, while Team and Business workspaces are excluded automatically. In LearningFlow the model list is not gated by plan, and the only gate is a per-organisation admin override.
Where this came from. Read on 13 September 2026. Gamma changes its product and its prices without telling us, so check anything that decides a purchase.
- Gamma Pricing (plans, credits and AI model FAQ) ↗
- Gamma Help Centre — What options does Gamma offer for business ↗
- Gamma Help Centre — Can I update user roles in my Gamma workspace? ↗
- Gamma Help Centre — What's the easiest way to export my Gamma? ↗
- Gamma Help Centre — Does Gamma use my content to train its AI features? ↗
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