Lesson Maker Pro vs Lessonly

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.

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.