Education · head to head
Elevate vs Linewize
Elevate
Education
Cognitive skills training app from Elevate Labs covering reading, writing, maths and speaking games
- From
- Free
- Rated
- -
Linewize
Education
School web filtering, classroom control and student wellbeing alerting from the Qoria group
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Only Elevate has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Elevate the free tier limits daily games enough that the personalised programme the app is designed around is effectively a paid-only feature.; Linewize automated wellbeing flagging produces false positives on ordinary adolescent language, and each false positive is a recorded concern about a named child that the school must then handle and retain.
- They diverge on capability: Elevate covers Daily game sets, Linewize covers Filtering on and off network.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Elevate and Linewize actually diverge.
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Education).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Elevate
- Daily game sets
- Personalised training plan
- Progress tracking
- Reading and comprehension drills
- Maths and estimation games
- Writing and proofreading games
Only in Linewize
- Filtering on and off network
- Classwize
- Wellbeing alerting
- Pulse reporting
- School to home
- Multi-platform agents
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Elevate
- An adult wanting short daily practice on workplace writing and proofreading skillsnot Linewize
- Someone preparing for a maths or verbal reasoning assessment who wants low-stakes daily drillsnot Linewize
- A user comparing Elevate against Lumosity on whether they want practical skills or abstract cognitive gamesnot Linewize
- A buyer wanting to sample the format on the limited free tier before committing to a subscriptionnot Linewize
Linewize
- A United Kingdom school evidencing Keeping Children Safe in Education monitoring expectations at inspectionnot Elevate
- Districts with take home devices that need policy applied off the school networknot Elevate
- Schools that want teachers to control lesson browsing without raising a ticket with the network managernot Elevate
- Safeguarding teams that need a documented trail of flags raised and actions takennot Elevate
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Elevate
- The free tier limits daily games enough that the personalised programme the app is designed around is effectively a paid-only feature.
- As with the brain training category generally, evidence that improved performance on Elevate specific games transfers to broader real-world cognitive or task performance is weaker than marketing framing implies.
- The annual subscription auto-renews and, as with most mobile subscriptions, must be cancelled through app store settings rather than inside the app itself.
- Game variety within each skill category is finite, and long-term daily users report the exercises becoming repetitive after extended use.
- It does not replace structured instruction for skills like reading comprehension or maths where a genuine foundational gap exists; it is practice and drilling rather than teaching from first principles.
Linewize
- Automated wellbeing flagging produces false positives on ordinary adolescent language, and each false positive is a recorded concern about a named child that the school must then handle and retain.
- Buying alerting without staffing it is a liability. If nobody reads the queue, the school has created evidence that it was told and did not act.
- Off site monitoring of school devices extends school visibility into the home, and unless the school publishes the hours and scope, families discover it after the fact rather than at the point of consent.
- The group sells both the school monitoring platform and a consumer parental control product to the same families, which is a commercial incentive to widen monitoring that the sales conversation will not surface.
- Consolidation through acquisition means overlapping products from different codebases inside one group, and schools that bought a now acquired product face migration onto the group platform at renewal.
Pricing, plan by plan
Elevate
Free- Elevate Pro$9.99/month
- Free tier gives a limited number of games per day
- Pro unlocks the full game library and personalised training plan
- Annual Pro plans typically run $44.99 to $59.99, cheaper per month than monthly billing
Linewize
On request- Linewize$undefined/year
- Quoted per pupil per year
- Filtering, classroom and wellbeing modules priced separately
- Multi-year school and district agreements
Which should you pick?
Choose Elevate if
- You need daily game sets.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on iOS, Android.
- You also want personalised training plan.
Choose Linewize if
- You need filtering on and off network.
- You work on Web, ChromeOS, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android.
- You also want classwize.
Questions people ask
- Is Elevate or Linewize better?
- Neither clearly leads. Elevate starts at Free and Linewize at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Elevate or Linewize?
- Elevate has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Elevate and On request for Linewize.
- Does Elevate or Linewize run on more platforms?
- Elevate runs on iOS, Android. Linewize runs on Web, ChromeOS, Windows, macOS, iOS, Android.
- Can I use Elevate for free?
- Yes. Elevate has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Linewize starts at On request.
- What is Elevate best used for?
- Elevate is most often used for an adult wanting short daily practice on workplace writing and proofreading skills, someone preparing for a maths or verbal reasoning assessment who wants low-stakes daily drills, a user comparing elevate against lumosity on whether they want practical skills or abstract cognitive games, a buyer wanting to sample the format on the limited free tier before committing to a subscription. Of those, an adult wanting short daily practice on workplace writing and proofreading skills and someone preparing for a maths or verbal reasoning assessment who wants low-stakes daily drills are not what Linewize is typically brought in for.
- What can Elevate do that Linewize cannot?
- Elevate covers Daily game sets, Personalised training plan, Progress tracking, Reading and comprehension drills. Linewize covers Filtering on and off network, Classwize, Wellbeing alerting, Pulse reporting.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Elevate: Is Elevate free?
A limited number of games per day are free. The full library, personalised training plan and progress tracking require Elevate Pro.
Linewize: Is Linewize the same company as Smoothwall and Qustodio?
They are all part of Qoria, the group formerly known as Family Zone Cyber Safety. Product roadmaps and renewals are coordinated at group level.
Elevate: Does Elevate improve real-world cognitive ability?
It reliably improves performance on the specific games practised. Evidence that this transfers broadly to real-world cognitive or task performance is limited, consistent with the brain training category generally.
Linewize: Does it monitor pupils outside school hours?
On school managed devices it can, and the school decides the scope. Define the hours and the data retention period in policy and tell families, because the software will not decide proportionality for you.
Elevate: How is Elevate different from Lumosity?
Elevate focuses on practical skills such as reading, writing and workplace maths, while Lumosity is built around broader abstract memory, attention and reasoning games.
Linewize: Is it FERPA and COPPA aligned?
For United States deployments it contracts as a school official under FERPA with COPPA consent handled by the district. In the United Kingdom the relevant frameworks are UK GDPR and Keeping Children Safe in Education, which impose different retention and review duties.
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