Common Planner vs Lesson Maker Pro

Common Planner is a web-based collaborative lesson planner for teachers, schools, and districts. Teachers can create lesson and unit plans, organize classes, and reuse planbooks and lessons across school years. They can search for standards, attach them to units, and track which standards have been taught. Shared planbooks support co-planning, sharing plans with administrators, and borrowing plans from other teachers. School leaders can review planning status, standards coverage, and pacing, then comment on lesson plans. The school product page describes AI-assisted insights for identifying missing standards, pacing issues, or instructional gaps. Basic for Teachers includes an AI-powered lesson assistant, daily, weekly, and monthly planning, up to 50 Google Classroom posts, and file uploads from a computer or supported storage services. Pro includes unlimited Classroom posts, unit planning, automatic standards tracking, and up to five collaborators. The Basic plan is free forever; Pro is listed at $5.59 a month, with a one-payment amount of 71.88 USD. The Schools plan includes school-wide templates, membership management, staff training, and ongoing support. There is no app, but the service works through a browser on tablets and smartphones.

Lesson Maker Pro is a web app for teachers to plan lessons, organize a teaching week, and create classroom materials. Its weekly planner is a drag-and-drop board for placing lessons into a bell schedule and switching days. The Teaching Assistant can brainstorm ideas, draft lesson plans, suggest activities, and discuss teaching questions. Plans can align with Common Core, NGSS, and state standards drawn from a catalog of more than 455,000 standards. The app generates worksheets, handouts, assessments, student notes, teacher guides, graphic organizers, infographics, card sheets, and presentations. Materials can be downloaded as PDF, DOCX, or PPTX, or exported to Google Docs, Slides, Forms, and Classroom. Free accounts include sub plans that can be printed or shared by private link. Student accounts, rosters, and student data are not needed; Digital Experiences also need no student accounts, installs, or app, and their links work for two weeks. The free plan allows five generated lessons and one unit plan monthly, ten standalone materials monthly, and 25 Teaching Assistant messages monthly. Pro costs $7.99 a month, billed annually.