Library software is priced for districts. A single school with four hundred students gets the same quote and can't justify it. DITA Platform is $29 a month at that size, and a teacher can run it.
Every school has books, reading lists and a librarian or a teacher doing the job. Almost none of them have software that fits one school.
Teachers
Assign reading, see who read it.
Not a gradebook — just enough to know whether the class actually opened the book.
Class reading lists. Put a set of titles in front of a class, with a date. Everyone gets access at once, with no copies to hand out.
Progress you can see. Who started, who finished, who hasn't opened it. Reading time, not comprehension scores.
No print run. A licensed or open title reaches thirty students instantly, and comes back on its own.
Works at home. Borrowed titles read offline, so a student without internet at home is not excluded.
Students
A library that fits in a bag.
One place for set texts, the reading shelf, and whatever they pick themselves.
Their own shelf. Reading position, bookmarks and notes follow them between a school device and their phone.
Age-appropriate by design. Titles can be limited to an age range, so the catalog a nine-year-old sees is not the one a sixth-former sees.
Accessible reading. Adjustable type, dyslexia-friendly settings, screen reader and read-along audio as standard.
Any language. Collections in the languages your students speak at home, including right-to-left scripts.
Practicalities
What your IT and safeguarding leads will ask.
No student records needed
We never receive or store a student information system record. Accounts can be created from a class list alone.
Guardian consent
Child accounts are created by the school or a parent, with consent recorded.
Your sign-in
Staff sign in with email and password today. Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra single sign-on — so accounts follow the roll, not a shared password — is on the roadmap after launch.
No profiling
We don't build reader profiles or recommend by inferred interest. What's on a shelf is what a teacher put there.
Money
Priced for one school.
Free up to fifty readers, $29 a month up to 250, $99 up to 1,000 — the whole product at every size.
No per-title fees
Upload your whole collection. We never charge for books we didn't supply.
Open textbooks included
The Open Textbook Library by subject, free, alongside whatever you own.
Invoice or PO
Whatever your finance office needs.
A school group?
Several schools under one account is set up with us directly, not on a card.
Start
Try it with one class.
Free up to fifty readers. Set it up, assign one book, and see whether they read it.