Teachers.io vs Class Planner (cloud)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Teachers.io
This app helps educators plan lessons, organize class materials, and share information with students. It allows for offline access and automatically updates a personal teacher website. Streamline your teaching workflow and keep students informed.
- Organize classes and syllabus
- Share assignments and announcements
- Upload files and links
- Offline access and syncing
- Automatic teacher website creation
- Shareable education profile
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Plan your schedule, organize your classes and share with students. - Simplest way to organize your classes In minutes, have your course up and running. Our teacher focused design is the easiest way to organize your syllabus, assignments, tests, lessons, and announcements. Upload files from popular file sharing apps and share links to quizzes, discussions, videos and more. - Share with students using the myHomework app Students using the myHomework app can easily access the syllabus, assignments, course schedule, and announcements. - Works Offline Don't worry about that terrible school network or sparse mobile coverage. Teachers.io will work great without network connectivity and sync up the next time it can. - Teachers.io Website All of the course and profile information automatically updates your website. Every teacher has a url at https://teachers.io for a mobile, desktop and tablet friendly website. - Save Time: Easy to share education profile and more With a simple link to your Teachers.io profile from your school website, your education history, announcements and classes can all be updated straight from the app.
Class Planner (cloud)
This app helps educators organize their teaching materials in the cloud. It allows for easy access to lesson plans, standards, homework, and web resources across multiple devices. Features include schedule management, PDF generation, and integration with other educational tools.
- Cloud data synchronization across devices
- Lesson plan management (standards, notes, homework)
- Schedule support (1, 2, or 6-day)
- PDF lesson generation
- Google Classroom homework sync
- Home screen widget for daily schedule
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Class Planner (cloud) is a new release of the Class Planner app. This version stores data in the cloud instead of on device, so the app data is accessible from multiple devices such as a phone, an iPad and a MacBook computer. Your data automatically syncs from all your devices. Class Planner allows teachers to easily keep a record of their lesson plans which include the standards, lesson notes, homework and an online web resources. Features • Support a 1 week, 2 weeks or 6 day schedule. • Easily import standards and link to a lesson • View lessons for the day, the week, or by a class • Easily move lessons forward or backwards • Generate a PDF of the lesson for administrators or personal records • Sync homework with Google Classroom announcements. • Add a home screen widget to show today's class schedule Try the app for free for 2 classes. Activate an autorenewable subscription to support up to 20 classes or up to 30 classes. Autorenewable Subscription Details To access additional features the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable subscription. This means the subscription automatically renews 24 hours before the end of the subscription date. Auto renewable subscriptions can be managed from the user iTunes account, and a link is provided in the subscription screen while in the app. All future updates are included with the auto renewable monthly subscription fee. The subscription may be cancelled for any future months, and the user will still have access to the data, only the additional features will be disabled. Feel free to email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com to give feedback. I love to make improvements based on user suggestions and anything to help teachers keep track of their lesson plans is appreciated. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Class Planner (cloud) at 4.6 against Teachers.io's 3.7. Class Planner (cloud) also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Teachers.io's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Teachers.io sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Class Planner (cloud) sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Class Planner (cloud) holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 53 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Teachers.io's written reviews are positive against 71% of Class Planner (cloud)'s.
Teachers.io ships an update every 3 months, Class Planner (cloud) fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Teachers.io | Class Planner (cloud) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (25 ratings) | 4.6 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.2% of reviews | 70.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | instin, LLC | Glen Botha |
Customer experience
Teachers.io
Class Planner (cloud)
Bugs and requests
Teachers.io
Reported bugs
21 issues- App crashes every time trying to link/access Google Drive
- Randomly not showing certain assignments
- Cannot enter a date outside of the current month
- Lesson plans completely disappear and have to be redone
- No feedback from students on logged in status or completed work
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- Two week cycle calendar is awkward for holidays
- Timetable difficult for secondary teachers with two week cycle
- No way of knowing what students are using the app
- Does not let teacher know when students have completed assignments
- Lack of creating a private course
- Cannot limit who can see the course through partner app
- Assignment does not retain formatting into MyHomework
- Links in homework assignments don't show for students in MyHomework app
- Formatting doesn't show up in the description on MyHomework student app
- Notes for each lesson run together
- Approval process takes too long
- Requires location sharing for registration
- Assignments don't post to student planners fast enough
- Assignments occasionally do not post at all
- Cannot log in to app
- Email confirmation not received
Requested features
27 requests- Show assignment due dates on calendar
- Notifications chime or buzz and pop up on phone screen
- Calendar view for lessons
- Space for teacher notes
- Option to incorporate a grade book
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- Field trip template
- Notify when an assignment has been completed
- Ability to limit who can see the course
- Support for Arabic language
- Support for Spanish language
- Option to include Common Core standards
- Ability for students to notify teachers upon completion
- Private course option
- Dark mode option
- More interaction with students
- See which pupils have signed up/viewed assignments
- Submit assignments through the app
- Group lessons and assignments by unit
- Calendar view for lessons
- Notifications pop up on iPad screen
- Blog through a different platform than Twitter
- Assignment retention of formatting into MyHomework
- Links in homework assignments show in MyHomework
- Formatting shows in MyHomework description
- Notes for each lesson are not run together
- Faster approval process
- Home school version
Class Planner (cloud)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Teachers.io
- Ads-Free Account$4.99
Class Planner (cloud)
- Premium (20 classes)$5.991 Month
- Premium (30 classes)$8.991 Month
- Premium (20 classes)$59.991 Year
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- Premium (30 classes)$89.991 Year
Questions
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