Lesson Maker Pro vs TeacherHero

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.

TeacherHero is a web-based AI lesson-planning and instructional-coaching platform for K–12 teachers. It organizes courses into units, weeks, and lessons, then uses that connected curriculum context to generate lesson plans. Generated lessons follow six gradual-release sections: Warm-Up, I Do, We Do, Y’all Do, You Do, and Exit Ticket. Teachers can choose among 24 teaching strategies. Pro adds unit assessments, learning-target alignment checks, lesson audits, differentiation, rewrites, and source enhancements. Lessons can be exported as PDFs, slides, and Google Drive files; listed formats also include PowerPoint and Word. Google sign-in is available, and optional Drive access is limited to files the app creates. TeacherHero says it uses OpenAI’s API for every AI call, does not use curriculum or uploaded materials to train models, and sends uploaded excerpts to AI only after teacher confirmation. The maker says it does not collect student names, records, or work, and the product has no student accounts. A free account is available; Pro costs $8.99 per month after a 7-day free trial and renews monthly until canceled.