Almanack vs Lessonsquill

Almanack is a web platform for educators planning curriculum lessons and classroom resources across subjects, grade levels, and languages. Teachers can adjust a lesson’s reading level, topic, content, and pacing while keeping the unit structure intact. It can create below-grade, above-grade, ELL, and IEP versions aligned to the same standards, and generate assessments tied to standards, letter grades, and curriculum units with gradebook-ready artifacts. The free plan costs nothing and includes standards-aligned lesson planning, curriculum design, a lesson and unit planner, slides, basic worksheets and activities, quizzes and assessments, educational games, and custom video recommendations. Almanack lists integrations including Google Classroom, Google Forms, Kahoot, GimKit, Blooket, Wayground, Quizlet, Google Slides, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF. Its Google Classroom integration can import courses, publish lessons as assignments, and display classwork in Almanack course pages. School and district users can sign in through Google, Microsoft Entra ID, Clever, or ClassLink, depending on district configuration.

Lessonsquill is a web-based AI tool for K-12 teachers, tutors, and homeschool educators creating curriculum-aligned materials. Its lesson planner produces editable plans covering objectives, prior knowledge, activities, teaching methods, assessments, resources, and pacing. Listed curriculum support includes WAEC, NECO, NERDC, Common Core, the UK National Curriculum, IB, CBSE/ICSE, and CAPS. Quiz generation offers six question types, adjustable difficulty, answer keys, and print-ready PDFs. The worksheet tool accepts a topic, text, web URL, YouTube link, or uploaded TXT, PDF, or DOCX file, and includes an answer key. A scheme-of-work generator lays out weekly objectives, methods, assessments, resources, and vocabulary. Users can save lessons in folders, customize content, and export to PDF, Word, or PowerPoint. The Free plan costs nothing with monthly creation limits. Pro costs $5 a month, billed at checkout at approximately ₦8,000, while School is listed at $12 a month and coming soon.