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The Skill Site and Vivid Practice compared
Vivid Practice is a practice app: weekly assignments, recordings and a metronome, priced by the number of students from $9 a month. The Skill Site covers the same teaching between lessons for $9 a month with unlimited learners, and adds the lesson calendar, make-ups for one-to-one pupils, emails to families and an enquiry form. Choose Vivid for its student app on phones and tablets.
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From Vivid Practice's public pages, read on 10 November 2026, and our own plans. List prices in US dollars, excluding taxes.
Price
- The Skill Site
- $9 a month for the first teacher and $3 for each extra, unlimited learners. Free for 1 person and 30 learners
- Vivid Practice
- By students: $0 for one student, $9 for up to 10 students, $19 for up to 25 students, $29 for up to 50 students, $39 for up to 500 students
Trying it
- The Skill Site
- 30-day free trial with no card
- Vivid Practice
- A free plan for one student; no trial is mentioned
Weekly assignments with audio, video and PDFs
- The Skill Site
- Yes
- Vivid Practice
- Yes, with a spreadsheet template for bulk upload and folders
Pupils record themselves
- The Skill Site
- Yes, on the assignment, on a phone or computer, each take graded with a letter or a comment
- Vivid Practice
- Yes: audio or video recorded into a message in the student app
Teacher replies with a recording
- The Skill Site
- Yes
- Vivid Practice
- Yes, in messages
Practice log, metronome
- The Skill Site
- Yes: a log by minutes or a timer against a goal; a metronome, tuner and drone
- Vivid Practice
- Yes: practice time is tracked and a metronome is built in
Student app
- The Skill Site
- In the browser on a phone or computer; no native app
- Vivid Practice
- A mobile app for students; teachers use the website
More than one teacher
- The Skill Site
- Yes: each extra teacher is $3 a month, with roles
- Vivid Practice
- Each account is for one teacher; schools share one account or set up one for each teacher
Lesson calendar, attendance, reminders and make-ups
- The Skill Site
- Yes; make-ups are for one-to-one pupils, once an admin turns them on
- Vivid Practice
- Not listed on its home page
Enquiry form and studio website
- The Skill Site
- Yes
- Vivid Practice
- Not listed on its home page
Invoicing and payments
- The Skill Site
- No
- Vivid Practice
- Not listed on its home page
| What you need | The Skill Site | Vivid Practice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9 a month for the first teacher and $3 for each extra, unlimited learners. Free for 1 person and 30 learners | By students: $0 for one student, $9 for up to 10 students, $19 for up to 25 students, $29 for up to 50 students, $39 for up to 500 students |
| Trying it | 30-day free trial with no card | A free plan for one student; no trial is mentioned |
| Weekly assignments with audio, video and PDFs | Yes | Yes, with a spreadsheet template for bulk upload and folders |
| Pupils record themselves | Yes, on the assignment, on a phone or computer, each take graded with a letter or a comment | Yes: audio or video recorded into a message in the student app |
| Teacher replies with a recording | Yes | Yes, in messages |
| Practice log, metronome | Yes: a log by minutes or a timer against a goal; a metronome, tuner and drone | Yes: practice time is tracked and a metronome is built in |
| Student app | In the browser on a phone or computer; no native app | A mobile app for students; teachers use the website |
| More than one teacher | Yes: each extra teacher is $3 a month, with roles | Each account is for one teacher; schools share one account or set up one for each teacher |
| Lesson calendar, attendance, reminders and make-ups | Yes; make-ups are for one-to-one pupils, once an admin turns them on | Not listed on its home page |
| Enquiry form and studio website | Yes | Not listed on its home page |
| Invoicing and payments | No | Not listed on its home page |
Sources: Vivid Practice home page and about page, read on 10 November 2026. "Not listed" means we did not find it on those pages, not that the product lacks it.
When Vivid Practice is the better choice
- You want your pupils to have a native app on their phone or tablet.
- You teach a few pupils alone and want a single, simple practice tool with no calendar.
When The Skill Site is the better choice
- You have more than a handful of pupils, or more than one teacher: the price does not rise with the number of learners, and each extra teacher is $3 a month.
- You want the lesson calendar, make-ups for one-to-one pupils, emails to families and an enquiry form in the same place as the practice work. See The Skill Site for music teachers and pricing.
- You want each recorded take graded on the assignment, and quizzes for test preparation.
Questions and answers
Is The Skill Site cheaper than Vivid Practice?
For a teacher with more than 10 students, yes. Vivid Practice charges by the number of students: $29 a month for up to 50 students. The Skill Site’s Teacher plan is $9 a month for any number of learners. Vivid’s Small Studio, at $9 for up to 10 students, costs the same as our first teacher.
What does Vivid Practice do better?
It has a mobile app for students, where ours runs in the browser on a phone or computer. If an app on your pupils’ phones decides it for you, Vivid is the better fit.
Can we use both?
You could, but you would send each pupil to two places for the same job. The Skill Site also schedules lessons and tells families about them, so it can replace both the practice app and the calendar; invoices stay with a tool for money.
Does The Skill Site take payments from families?
No. Invoicing and payments stay with the tool you use for money, as they do with Vivid Practice.
What does the Teacher plan leave out?
The training features: coding, labs, notebooks, AI hints, LTI, SCORM, xAPI, the API and clients. The Training plans from $99 a month include them, and so does the free plan.
Where do these facts about Vivid Practice come from?
Vivid Practice’s own home page and its about page, read on 10 November 2026. Prices change; check vividpractice.com before you decide, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
Try it with your next cohort
Start a 30-day free trial with up to 30 learners and no card, or see the demo for your kind of class and book a call with us.