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How Instructor Office compares.

The two best-known UK instructor apps, side by side with Instructor Office, from what each company says on its own website and app store pages. Where we could not find something, we say “not found” rather than guess.

Checked 30 October 2026. Apps change, so if anything here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it within a working day. Sources are listed at the bottom of the page.

Instructor Office compared with Total Drive and MyDriveTime, checked 30 October 2026
Feature	Instructor Office	Total Drive	MyDriveTime
Price and plans
Monthly price, one instructor	£12 inc. VAT, everything and all the AI	£18, £23, £24 or £26 by tier	£19 (VAT not stated on their site)
Every feature in the cheapest plan	Yes, one plan with everything, AI included	No: online booking from £23, 3D aids from £24	Yes
Free trial	30 days, no card	30 days, no card	30 days, no card
Money-back guarantee	No: try free first, cancel any time	3 months	6 months
Phone, wrist and car
Apple Watch app	Yes	Not listed	Not listed
CarPlay	Yes	Yes	Not listed
Android Auto	Not yet	Yes	Not listed
Full app in a web browser	Yes, the same app	Web Admin; some features web-only	Yes
Works with no signal	Yes, automatically	Yes, switched on by hand	Not on their own site
AI
AI features	9, all included	None advertised	None advertised
Debriefs written from a recording	Yes	Not found	Not found
Voice assistant	Yes, phone and watch	Not found	Not found
Paper mock sheet read from a photo	Yes	Not found	Not found
Pupils
Free pupil app	Yes	Yes, plus parent app	Yes
Live “on the way” with a map	Yes	Not found	Route recorded afterwards
Pupils book your free slots	Yes	From the £23 tier	Accept or decline offers only
Push notifications for pupils	Yes	Yes, message centre and lesson changes	Yes, with text backup
Digital DL25 mock test	Full tickable sheet and timer	Fault counts only	Real test faults only
Teaching aids	Road Sketch on a satellite map	2D scenes, DoodlePad; 3D from £24	Shared resources
Money and admin
Card payments from pupils	Into your own Stripe, matched automatically, no commission	Built in; fee not published	Not found
Lesson reminders	Free in the pupil app; pupils tap to confirm, you are told if they don’t	Free, 24 or 48 hours before	Included
Making Tax Digital	Quarterly figures and export; no direct filing	Links to Xero, QuickBooks and others	Through paid partners or CSV
Expenses with receipt reading	Yes, receipts read by AI	Expenses; receipt capture not found	Receipts attached
Several instructors in one school	Yes: team diary without pupil names, leads, branding	Yes	Yes
Your data
Download all your data yourself	Yes: one tap, one spreadsheet, any time	Finance CSV; full backup on written request	CSV
Bringing your data over	AI import tool: file, photos or voice	Their staff import it	Free migration by their team

“Not found” and “Not listed” mean we could not find the feature on the company’s own website or app store page on the date above. It does not prove the feature is missing.

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Sources

Every competitor fact on this page comes from these pages, checked on 30 October 2026. Prices are for one instructor, per month, as shown on each company’s own pricing page.

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