Absorb vs. Tovuti LMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Absorb
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Absorb LMS aims to empower organizations to train employees with the skills needed to stay modern and relevant in today's fast-paced world. The LMS software focuses on aligning learning needs with business demands.N/A
Tovuti LMS
Score 6.8 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Tovuti LMS is a learning management system used by organizations to create, deliver, and monitor training programs. The platform supports multiple use cases, including employee onboarding, compliance training, customer education, and partner enablement. The system is designed for mid-market businesses, public-sector groups, and organizations managing training for both internal and external audiences. The software features native course authoring tools that generate structured…
$7,500
per year
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
AbsorbTovuti LMS
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredOptional
Additional DetailsTovuti LMS uses annual subscription pricing based on user count, training use case, feature needs, integrations, implementation support, security requirements, and optional services. Pricing starts at $7,500 annually for up to 100 users and includes platform access, onboarding, account management, Customer Success support, 24/7 ticket support, email support, launch guidance, and core LMS capabilities. Included platform capabilities cover unlimited courses, learning paths, course assignments, SCORM/xAPI/cmi5 support, reporting dashboards, custom reports, user management, mobile learning, native integrations, API access, custom branding, gamification, ecommerce tools, and social learning features. AI Course Creator pricing is customized based on usage, content volume, and client needs. Specialized onboarding, professional services, and LMS-as-a-Service options are priced separately based on each organization’s onboarding needs, goals, configuration complexity, and service scope.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Absorb
Chose Absorb
Absorb was able to come on top because it was the only LMS system that met 95% of our needs. While we vetted several systems, this one worked the best for us. We are very unique in how we use our training system, so it was refreshing to have a company provide us with what we …
Tovuti LMS
Chose Tovuti LMS
I selected Tovuti LMS due to its price range and interactive content authoring abilities available.
Features
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Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Absorb
8.7
163 Ratings
5% above category average
Tovuti LMS
9.5
34 Ratings
14% above category average
Course authoring9.2128 Ratings9.733 Ratings
Course catalog or library9.3142 Ratings9.632 Ratings
Player/Portal8.4147 Ratings9.629 Ratings
Learning content8.9120 Ratings9.629 Ratings
Mobile friendly8.0117 Ratings8.428 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications9.6155 Ratings9.733 Ratings
Assignments9.7134 Ratings9.632 Ratings
Compliance management9.8129 Ratings9.721 Ratings
Learning administration9.3159 Ratings9.633 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics8.9156 Ratings9.729 Ratings
Social learning6.186 Ratings9.029 Ratings
Gamification6.184 Ratings00 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning9.8121 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
AbsorbTovuti LMS
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(166 ratings)
9.4
(34 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.1
(9 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(70 ratings)
9.3
(20 ratings)
Availability
8.9
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.3
(5 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.6
(152 ratings)
9.5
(31 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
8.6
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.5
(4 ratings)
9.8
(2 ratings)
Configurability
7.9
(3 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
4.5
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
6.4
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
7.0
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
9.6
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.6
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
8.6
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AbsorbTovuti LMS
Likelihood to Recommend
Absorb Software Inc.
Absorb LMS has been incredibly well suited to our business needs. It is a robust platform with a wide ranges of tools, which make it easy to implement whatever training is desired. While there are many tools and options, the system itself is not overwhelming. The team we have worked with at Absorb (Jordan Wolf and Steve Ernstes) made onboarding, implementation, and continued customer support a breeze. The amount of support we received when we did encounter small issues was amazing.
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Tovuti LMS
The amount of support available alone makes this system as great as it is! This is the 4th LMS I've worked with and the 3rd I've personally had a hand in setting up. Tovuti LMS is by far the most user-friendly on both the admin and end-user sides that I've experienced. This system works great for our users many of whom are 65+ in age, so the user-friendly part is essential. I know I've already said it, but the amount of support provided by the Tovuti Team is top-notch. If someone that I'm dealing with doesn't have an immediate answer to my query someone else always gets back to me in a timely manner. I no longer have to spend additional time searching for answers.
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Pros
Absorb Software Inc.
  • Overall, Absorb LMS is pretty easy to use for learners and especially for admins. It's practical to create and manage course content - it provides the most crucial options and yet is lean enough not to overcomplicate the admin's life. The consistent and customizable "table-view" in most of the admin-areas is very helpful and easy to follow.
  • Using Enrollment Rules, Absorb LMS let you define who a course applies to and how they get enrolled. You can build rules based on learner attributes, such as department, location job role, group, to include or exclude specific audiences. The way Absorb LMS is using enrollment attributes, no other LMS actually can fulfill our requirements easier. Enrollment rules are mainly embedded in individual course options (you can also create scheduled enrollments outside of the courses).
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Tovuti LMS
  • Customization - we support internal and external users, the ability to have unique registrations fields for the different audiences is a game changer, the ability to build custom reports is helpful as well.
  • Interactive Content Tools - Love the ability to create interaction with users so it is not just text or videos they are looking at.
  • Ease of Use on End User Side - It's not tricky, all levels of tech savvy users can find success as learners!
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Cons
Absorb Software Inc.
  • The "And" and "Or" rules for self + automatic enrollment could be spelled out more to clarify who we're enrolling into courses
  • The thumbnail and poster "Upload photo" section is confusing. There should be a "Favorites" folder where we can easily find most commonly used posters and thumbnails
  • more education around Absorb analyze essentials
  • How the Featured courses section ranks courses is confusing on the back-end. I need to switch the primary one to second place to feature the new one first. But if the previous one now becomes second place, what happens to the old course that was in second place? I've noticed the order you select on the back-end for this isn't always reflected on user side
  • Same comment as Featured Courses but for appearance of billboards. Hard to position each in the right order
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Tovuti LMS
  • iFraming has always been an interesting feature to try out, but the design can be tricky. Allowing for my useable iFraming activities is always on my list.
  • Offering reporting/results on interactive videos is something I've been missing from the start. We use interactive videos to provide checkpoints of understanding, but there's no result section on the back end to review students' responses - only a numerical score is provided.
  • Toggling between personal dashboards and team lead dashboards is a great capability, but this opens a new tab. I'd rather everything stay within one tab and navigate through that!
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Likelihood to Renew
Absorb Software Inc.
We love the ability to have a user-friendly system that integrates well with our different HR interfaces (we have 3 systems that feed data/employees into the system). It makes it easy to track course completions and report out on metrics enterprise-wide. In addition, the ability to provide consistent education to staff who are geographically dispersed is a huge incentive for us, and Absorb LMS does this seamlessly.
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Tovuti LMS
We have established the training department to extend our training capabilities into one central area. I have mentioned training production, internal and external sales staff. But the training department will surely delve into the HR area of new hire orientation, annual recertification processes, etc. We truly have just scratched the surface of this iceberg. Now that we have made the investment, we will surely continue with this product. I cannot see us moving to another product at all. We will definitely renew our subscription with Tovuti
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Usability
Absorb Software Inc.
The system is very flexible, allowing admins to build dashboards that offer different UX and UI for different roles. The increase in usability is great for engagement and one-click actions. In addition to the dashboards, the admin interface is intuitive and allows managers to easily access reports for their teams.
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Tovuti LMS
As far as building the program, once you have learned the basics it is very easy to upload and create content. They also provide a ton of resources and have an extremely responsive help team, so when and If I am stuck, Tovuti is quick to help me find the solution. The test users I have given access to have all mentioned the ease of navigation and use of the program overall.
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Reliability and Availability
Absorb Software Inc.
We have never had any major issue with Absorb's availability. Any outages that have occurred have been planned an communicated. Any small issues that occur within the Absorb platform have been addressed efficiently and quickly by support and the development team
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Tovuti LMS
I have yet to have an outage on the availability. As far as I know, no trainee has run into it either. Excellent rating on that front
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Performance
Absorb Software Inc.
We have experienced infrequent issues with things like load times on reporting, or pages timing out, but for the large majority of our time within the system things have worked as they should
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Tovuti LMS
I have worked with so many software packages that are slow to load, take for ever for screen changes, etc. I do not have that issue here with Tovuti at all. I have yet to really do any reporting on it as we are fairly new with the package, but if it operates like the rest of the system, then I am going to assume that reporting will be no more difficult than the rest of the platform
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Support Rating
Absorb Software Inc.
My client success manager had to reach out once for our company once. Although it was not an Absorb issue (it was an issue on the course vendor side), Absorb offered a resolution while the vendor was fixing the issue. We were very happy with the resolution and feel like Absorb went above and beyond for us.
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Tovuti LMS
The pre-sales team was very helpful and responsive and then stopped responding to my mail as soon as I had signed the contract, not even a reply from the last couple of emails sent. The post-sale teams are engaged and quick to respond and really good. Unfortunately, I need to use them more than I should, and sometimes the reply is "we don't support that feature", but the support from the support team is excellent.
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Online Training
Absorb Software Inc.
The training was comprehensive - there were existing modules to learn functionality but working with Absorb staff, and receiving recordings of those walk-throughs, made a rapid understanding of the LMS achievable and covered the necessary material that was needed and allowed for specific questions to be addressed.
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Tovuti LMS
Hayden was awesome. He knows his product inside and out and was able to answer all my questions. I had a lot of questions. I was actually starting to build courses while I was going through the training so that when the next session on the schedule came up, I had even more questions about what I had done vs the way I maybe should have. In the end, I was doing my own hands-on while going through the training. Tovuti is that easy to use.
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Implementation Rating
Absorb Software Inc.
The implementation of Absorb went very seamlessly. We previously had the Oracle LMS and importing user data and getting the new system up to speed was painless. The smooth transition helped leaders and staff gain confidence early in the application/company and we have had a successful partnership with Absorb since.
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Tovuti LMS
The implementation had extremely wonderful support from Tovuti in the form of a series of one-on-one meetings to hear the clients needs and intended usage and then to set up the platform to meet those needs while demonstrating how to use it.
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Alternatives Considered
Absorb Software Inc.
Absorb LMS is feature packed with small but smart elements (can have a username that isnt an email, can change the core language used in the platform, can change the font and layout) that offer greater security and accessibility for learners.
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Tovuti LMS
Tovuti LMS is super easy to use compared to Relias. Relias is very clunky and we always would have learners have issues with the platform. Tovuti's buildout process compared to Relias is very clean and easy to use. The analytics and reporting are also amazing, plus the cost is so much more affordable for what you're getting. The only caveat to this is that Relias has content included and the content is well done.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Absorb Software Inc.
Seems very expensive for limitations we have experienced.
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Tovuti LMS
I helped with the decision to purchase the software but purchasing did the contract work. They seemed satisfied so I am going with that
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Scalability
Absorb Software Inc.
We have already scaled our LMS from a couple hundred users to 1000 users and have plans to scale even larger. We use the LMS across multiple internal departments. countries and user types. Absorb has made it easy to integrate and scale and we will continue to scale in the near future.
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Tovuti LMS
Scalability is great. We bought their first 'size' package and that covers 300 trainees. Transitioning to the next level is more a matter of accounting and payment. My take on it is that its just a matter of paying the higher level of subscription and its done
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Professional Services
Absorb Software Inc.
We work directly with Kirsten Spak, who has continuously
provided timely and quality help for myself as the lead and our organization.
Kirsten has helped us ensure that we are going about things as efficiently and
is always willing to walk through things to demonstrate suggestions and
functions. As we look to expand our offerings further, Kirsten has helped
strategize for the best approach, which has helped our workflow and the
end-user experience. As we are still relatively new users, but using the LMS
every day, Kirsten has been very patient and provided clear instruction on
processes when we were unsure of what to do and has been able to troubleshoot,
with her team, functions that were desired but not availability at the time, to
provide us with solutions.
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Tovuti LMS
Top shelf
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Return on Investment
Absorb Software Inc.
  • We used Absorb LMS to track Annual Safety Training to ensure compliance with inspectors and ensure our teammates understand the risks and how to mitigate them safely. We were never able to track this before and thus, we simply didn't have mandatory annual training.
  • A huge drawback prior to implementation of Absorb LMS was our inability to offer more than our 40 purchased e-courses to our employees. These were mostly safety and equipment based courses, so we didn't have any soft skill development happening. Now we have hundreds of courses available from the Absorb library that cover the safety aspects, but we also have dozens of leadership courses, communication and influence courses, etc. It has been a huge gamechanger for our employees and their development opportunities! When I look at our course library, there are 400 courses, which over 300 being available through Absorb library (the other 80+ were made using Absorb Create).
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Tovuti LMS
  • Improved Communications.
  • Decision making has improved.
  • Problems caused by spatial or temporal distances are no longer a problem.
  • Facilitates the distance training experience.
  • Third-party courses can be modified and adapted to the level and demands of the students in order to reuse them.
  • Learning management with a high level of automation and integration.
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Absorb Screenshots

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Tovuti LMS Screenshots

Screenshot of a unique landing page for loginScreenshot of courses, appearing in TovutiScreenshot of checklists, where learners can find what's importantScreenshot of where managers can see everything they need to know, in one place