11+ Daily vs Bond: workbooks, Bond Online, and which suits your family

The short answer

Bond workbooks are excellent print resources and most families end up owning at least a few. They are not, by themselves, a complete daily-practice solution because the parent has to pick the page, the child has to sit at a table, and the marking is manual. Bond Online is the brand's digital answer, but it is a smaller, less talked-about product than the workbook range. 11+ Daily is purpose-built for daily app-based practice, with a Today screen, Weak Points and a parents area, at a price comparable to a couple of workbooks per year.

Our honest recommendation for most UK families: use 11+ Daily as your daily revision habit and pair it with a small selection of Bond workbooks for the practice paper experience and any Non-Verbal Reasoning practice. The two genuinely complement each other; you do not need to choose between them. For Bond Online specifically, most families with 11+ Daily and a couple of Bond workbooks will not need it.

What Bond actually is

Bond 11 Plus workbooks are published by Oxford University Press and have been the dominant print revision series in the UK for decades. The range covers English, Maths, Verbal Reasoning and Non-Verbal Reasoning, organised into year-band tiers (Up to 9 Years, 9 to 10 Years, 10 to 11 Years, and 11 to 12 Years). There are also Bond Test Papers for full mock practice. The books are widely available at Waterstones, WHSmith and Amazon, and most prep tutors will recommend at least a handful of titles. If you have spent an evening in the children's reference aisle of a UK bookshop, you will have seen them.

Bond Online is the brand's digital subscription product. It covers the same four 11 Plus subjects as the workbooks, with adaptive practice and a parent view. It is a smaller part of the Bond business than the print range and gets less attention from tutors and parents than either Atom Learning or the workbook series.

11+ Daily is a UK 11 Plus revision app built around the assumption that the limiting factor in most homes is consistency, not content. The Today screen picks the next session every time the child opens the app. Weak Points pulls the lowest-scoring questions across every subject into a focused drill. A parents area shows weekly activity and accuracy without interrupting the child. Subscription is one simple plan, available on web, iPhone, iPad and Android with a single synced account.

Bond workbooks vs 11+ Daily

This is the real decision most families face, and we want to be straight about it: Bond workbooks are good, and you should probably own a few. They are well-edited, the question style is sensible, and a printed practice paper at a kitchen table on a Saturday morning is a genuinely useful experience for a child preparing for a written exam.

What workbooks struggle with is the daily habit. A workbook on a shelf needs a parent to pick the next page, a child to sit at a table for long enough to make it worthwhile, and a parent or child to mark answers afterwards. On a Tuesday evening after a school day, this is exactly the friction that quietly kills weeknight practice. The result, in a lot of homes, is a stack of half-finished workbooks and a creeping sense that "we need to do more 11 Plus".

11+ Daily is built for the workbook-fatigue end of the spectrum. The Today screen has already picked the session before the child opens the app. A five-minute session on a phone in the car on the way home is genuinely useful because the question targeting is automatic. The marking is instant. The stats accumulate in the background, so a parent can glance at a weekly summary without having to write anything down themselves.

The honest answer is that workbooks and a daily app are different shapes solving different problems. The strongest 11 Plus revision setup we see is a daily app for the weeknight habit and a small selection of workbooks for focused weekend sessions and full mock papers. You will spend less than an Atom subscription and get tools that genuinely complement each other.

Bond Online vs 11+ Daily

This is the more direct head-to-head, because both products are digital subscriptions covering 11 Plus subjects.

Bond Online's main draw is breadth: it covers all four classic 11 Plus subjects including Non-Verbal Reasoning, and it benefits from the brand's long history in print 11 Plus material. If you want a single digital subscription that includes NVR and you trust the Bond name from the bookshop, it is a reasonable choice.

Where 11+ Daily is the better fit is the actual daily-use experience: a Today screen that removes the "what should we do tonight" decision; native British audio on every vocabulary and spelling card, which matters more than parents expect because GL papers are read in standard British English; true iOS, iPad and Android apps with synced progress, not a primarily-web product; and the streaks, shields and achievements that give a Year 5 or Year 6 child a reason to come back tomorrow. Combined with a Bond NVR workbook for the NVR side, the total cost is still likely to be lower than a Bond Online subscription.

Pricing

11+ Daily is £9.99 a month or £79.99 a year, with a 14 day free trial that does not require a credit card. One plan, every feature unlocked from day one of the trial.

Bond workbooks are typically £6 to £9 per title, sold individually or in bundles. A starter set of four to six books across English, Maths and Verbal Reasoning will run somewhere between £30 and £50 as a one-off cost. A complete year-band set is more substantial. There are no ongoing fees, but there is also no automatic targeting and no stats.

Bond Online is a subscription product. Pricing changes from time to time and we would rather you saw the current number directly, so the most reliable thing we can say is to check bond11plus.co.uk for the latest. As a rough order of magnitude, the annual cost is meaningfully higher than 11+ Daily's £79.99.

For most families, the most cost-effective setup is 11+ Daily annual plus a small handful of Bond workbooks: roughly £100 to £130 a year total, covering both the daily habit and the weekend mock paper experience.

How a daily session feels

Workbooks are quiet, focused, table-based. They reward a child who can sit for half an hour without distraction, and they punish the evenings where that is not realistic. The marking ritual matters too: a child who finishes a page and walks away without seeing what they got wrong loses most of the value.

11+ Daily is built for the opposite shape. Five minutes on a phone before dinner counts. The Today screen already knows what the next session should be. Wrong answers feed the Weak Points drill automatically, so the questions a child keeps missing surface again, in a focused run, the next time they have ten minutes. Streaks, shields, levels and achievements are there to give a child a reason to come back tomorrow, not to gamify learning for its own sake.

Both shapes work. The honest question is which one matches how your evenings actually look. Most families end up wanting a bit of both, which is exactly why the pair-them-together recommendation works.

Where 11+ Daily is the better fit

For most UK families preparing at home, this is the longer list:

• You want consistent daily practice that fits a real weeknight, not a shelf of workbooks waiting for the right moment.
• You want stats and weak-point identification you do not have to compile yourself with a pencil and a notebook.
• Your child is more likely to do a five-minute session on a phone or iPad than to sit down to a worksheet after school.
• You want native British audio on every vocabulary and spelling card. GL papers are read in standard British English; American voices on family devices are a real and underestimated problem.
• You want one synced account across web, iPhone, iPad and Android so progress travels with the child.
• You want predictable cost: one subscription, every feature unlocked, no growing pile of book purchases.
• Your child responds well to streaks, shields and achievements as a reason to keep showing up.
• You want a parents view on the same account that shows real progress without interrupting the child.

Where Bond is the better fit

Bond's strengths are real and we use them ourselves alongside 11+ Daily:

• Practice papers. The Bond Test Papers series is excellent for the full mock exam experience. A child needs to sit at a table for an hour at some point before exam day, and a printed paper is the right medium for that.
• Non-Verbal Reasoning. Bond's NVR workbooks are well-established and cover ground that 11+ Daily does not yet support. Pairing one or two with the app is the standard move.
• Children who genuinely prefer paper. Some children focus better with a pencil and a printed page. That is a real preference, worth honouring, and Bond is the obvious choice for the print side of the routine.
• Low-cost entry without a subscription. If you want to spend £30 once and see how your child gets on before committing to anything monthly, a starter set of Bond workbooks is a reasonable first step. Most families then add a daily app once the workbooks reveal where the consistency gap is.

Our recommendation

For the majority of UK families preparing at home, our honest recommendation is to use 11+ Daily as your daily revision habit and pair it with a small Bond selection: a vocabulary or spelling workbook if you want extra print practice, an NVR workbook to cover the gap, and a Bond Test Papers title for full mock practice closer to the exam. Total annual cost is well under £150, you cover both the daily habit and the table-based mock paper, and you avoid the workbook-only failure mode of inconsistent weeknight practice.

If you are deciding between Bond Online specifically and 11+ Daily as a single digital subscription, our recommendation is 11+ Daily, with a Bond NVR workbook on the side. The combined cost is lower and the app-side experience is built around a daily habit in a way Bond Online is not.

The 11+ Daily trial is 14 days, every feature unlocked, no credit card required. The fastest way to know if it fits your family is to put it in front of your child for a single school-night session and see whether they come back to it tomorrow.

Pricing and product details verified May 2026. Bond workbook prices vary by title and retailer; check bond11plus.co.uk and our pricing page for the latest.