iUgo vs Lessonly

iUgo is a web-based digital teacher planner with a resource library aligned to the Australian Curriculum. It supports long-term, unit, lesson, weekly, and daily planning, linking plans to curriculum maps. Teachers can manage multiple timetables, school events, tasks, activities, reminders, classrooms, year levels, priority learners, and unlimited groups. Co-authoring lets users share units and plan across classes and groups. Listed curricula include the F–10 Australian Curriculum, K–6 NSW Curriculum Syllabus, and F–10 Victorian Curriculum; other users can link to ACARA and request state-curriculum support. Teachables resources link to plans, with unlimited downloads on Pro. Google integration connects planning with Drive. iUgo runs in a browser on internet-connected devices; current Chrome on a computer or tablet is recommended, and some tasks may be difficult on mobile. Planner costs $15 a year as listed, displayed as $15 per user monthly and billed annually.

Lessonly is a web-based AI lesson-planning platform for teachers and educators in the United Kingdom. Its AI generates curriculum-aligned lesson plans with differentiated content for different key stages. A dashboard supports class groups, student profiles and schedule organization, while teaching guides, progress tracking and a lesson-plan library support ongoing teaching work. The intended users include teachers, tutors, early career teachers and trainees. Listed capabilities include standards alignment, collaboration and AI lesson generation; mobile access is web-only. The free-forever plan costs nothing and does not require a credit card. Lessonly says prompts and generated content are not used to train AI models, though AI providers may retain submitted data for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring and safety. Account data remains while an account is active and for 30 days after deletion; user content is deleted within 30 days of account deletion. The service is not guaranteed to be continuously available or uninterrupted.