HowNow
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What is HowNow
HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps organizations curate, deliver, and track learning from internal resources and external content in one place. It is used by L&D teams and people managers for onboarding, role-based enablement, and continuous skills development. The platform emphasizes blended learning paths that can include courses, articles, videos, and live sessions, with analytics to monitor engagement and progress.
Blended learning and curation
HowNow supports learning journeys that combine internally created materials with curated external resources. This fits teams that want to centralize knowledge without converting everything into SCORM-style courses. It also enables structured pathways for onboarding and role readiness while still allowing self-directed discovery.
Built-in content creation tools
The platform includes tools to create and publish learning content, reducing reliance on separate authoring software for basic modules. Teams can assemble learning from multiple formats (e.g., pages, video, links) and distribute it through programs or playlists. This is useful for fast-moving enablement use cases where content changes frequently.
Learning analytics and reporting
HowNow provides reporting on participation, completion, and engagement across learning activities. This helps L&D teams demonstrate adoption and identify where learners drop off. It also supports operational oversight for managers who need visibility into team progress.
Advanced LMS features may vary
Organizations that require deep compliance training controls (e.g., complex certification rules, regulated audit trails, or highly granular assignment logic) may find gaps compared with systems built primarily as compliance-first LMSs. Some advanced scenarios can require process workarounds or additional tooling. Fit depends on how strict the organization’s regulatory and reporting requirements are.
Authoring depth not specialist-grade
While it supports creating learning content, it may not replace dedicated course authoring tools for highly interactive modules, complex branching, or advanced assessments. Teams producing rich eLearning packages may still need external authoring software and then link or import content. This can add workflow complexity for instructional design-heavy organizations.
Integrations and ecosystem dependency
HowNow’s value increases when integrated with identity, HR, and collaboration systems, but integration availability and depth can vary by customer environment. Some integrations may require configuration effort or professional services. Organizations should validate required connectors (HRIS, SSO, content libraries, conferencing) during evaluation.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan (seat band examples) | Price (per user/year) | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essential (150–250 users) | £103.00 per user/year | Core learning & skills platform: create/deliver/manage learning; includes content authoring, virtual classroom, skills library & assessments, workflows & reporting, AI-powered unified search, personalised suggestions, HRIS integration, SSO, 24/5 support; contact sales for exact band pricing. |
| Pro (150–250 users) | £117.00 per user/year | Everything in Essential plus advanced custom branding and curated web content; contact sales. |
| Essential (251–300 users) | £79.00 per user/year | Volume example shown on official pricing page (same feature set as Essential). |
| Pro (251–300 users) | £90.00 per user/year | Volume example shown on official pricing page (same feature set as Pro). |
| Essential (301–350 users) | £75.00 per user/year | Volume example shown on official pricing page (same feature set as Essential). |
| Pro (301–350 users) | £86.00 per user/year | Volume example shown on official pricing page (same feature set as Pro). |
Notes:
- Prices and seat bands above are taken directly from HowNow's official pricing page examples (see source). The site displays per-user, per-year pricing and indicates you should contact HowNow for exact quotes and other seat bands. (Official pricing page: gethownow.com/pricing-copy).
- HowNow AI: the vendor states an incremental cost of £10 per user per year for the AI features (see HowNow AI page). (Official AI page: gethownow.com/hownow-ai).
- The official site presents pricing by user-seat bands and directs to contact sales for final quotes and additional bands; other add-ons (e.g., HowNow+ content library) are shown on the site but explicit pricing for those add-ons is not listed on the official pages I reviewed.
Seller details
HowNow Ltd
London, UK
2015
Private
https://www.hownow.com/
https://x.com/HowNowHQ
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hownowhq/
