Lessonly vs SchEDU

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.

SchEDU is a planning tool for teachers that turns subjects and class times into a term schedule and classroom activities. It spaces quizzes, orders performance tasks and exams, and accounts for review buffers and holidays. From lesson content, it can draft quizzes, written work, performance tasks and exams. Teachers can track each section separately, including its pace, plan status and completion. Existing PDFs and photos can supply text for lessons and activities, and uploaded templates let generated documents follow a school format. Activities and exams export as Word or PDF. SchEDU supports DepEd school-year calendars and college prelim-midterm-final terms; department heads can see teachers’ plans and progress in one dashboard. The Free plan includes 2 lesson plans for life, 2 subjects, 1 automated activity or exam per day and full-term auto-planning. Pro is $4.99 a month; Max is $9.99 a month. SchEDU says its Android soft launch is planned for the 2026-2027 school year; plan upgrades are available on the web.