A Boom Cards alternative for SLPs and special ed.
Boom Cards plays decks of digital task cards. Berdee builds lessons: several activities on one screen, paths that follow a student's score or choices, and a record of every answer. Here's an honest comparison, including where Boom is the better pick.
Which one fits how you work?
Switch to Berdee if
- You want more kinds of activity: 27 widgets, from matching and word search to drag-and-drop sorting and games, mixed on one screen.
- You want paths that follow a student's score, a timer, or a choice they made earlier in the lesson, not only their last answer.
- You want each attempt to show every answer, whether it was right, how many tries it took and how long it took.
- You'd rather pay per educator than by student and classroom limits.
Stay with Boom Cards if
- You rely on ready-made decks. Boom's store lists 95,000+ resources, and Berdee's marketplace is just opening.
- You need to share activities with students for free. Boom's free account can share decks with students. Berdee's Free plan is for building and previewing, and assigning needs Plus.
- Your students use the Boom app. Boom has iOS, Android and Amazon apps. Berdee runs in the browser.
- Your caseload runs on decks you've already bought. Those stay in Boom: there's no import into Berdee yet.
Berdee and Boom Cards, compared
What you build
- Berdee
- Lessons made of scenes, each holding any mix of 27 widget types.
- Boom Cards
- Decks of digital task cards.
Branching
- Berdee
- Paths on a right or wrong answer, a score, a timer, a tap or a remembered choice, drawn on the Lesson Graph, a map of the whole lesson.
- Boom Cards
- Flow Magic links one card to another depending on the student's answer.
Student data
- Berdee
- A page for each attempt: every answer in words, right or wrong, points, tries, time on each question, and the scenes the student visited.
- Boom Cards
- Reports on accuracy, errors and answering speed, by student or for a whole class.
Ready-made content
- Berdee
- A marketplace that's just opening. One purchase covers your whole caseload, with no per-student fees.
- Boom Cards
- 95,000+ resources in the Boom store, bought with points or cash. Memberships don't include decks.
Free plan
- Berdee
- Build and preview lessons with every available widget. Assigning to students needs Plus.
- Boom Cards
- A free account that can share decks with students.
How pricing scales
- Berdee
- Per educator. No per-student fees.
- Boom Cards
- Memberships by tier, with student and classroom limits.
Devices
- Berdee
- Any browser: Chromebooks, tablets, phones and computers.
- Boom Cards
- A browser, plus iOS, Android and Amazon apps.
What you can do that a deck doesn't.
A deck becomes a lesson
Put a matching game, a timer and a picture on the same scene, then group scenes into one lesson with an opening and an ending.
A wrong answer can teach
Send a student who misses a question to a scene that explains the mistake, or show a hint after two wrong tries.
Data for progress reports
Open any attempt to see each answer the student gave, how many tries it took and how long they spent on it.
Moving over. There's no import from Boom yet, so start with the deck you use most and rebuild it as one lesson. The tutorials walk through the activities you'll need, step by step. Your Boom decks keep working in Boom while you switch.
Common questions
We checked Boom Cards's own pages on . Spot something out of date? Tell us through the contact form and we'll fix it. Sources: Boom Learning home page · Boom help: memberships don't include cards or points · Boom help: Flow Magic (conditional links) · Boom pricing.
Try it with one session.
Build and preview your first lesson for free, with no credit card.