Comparison

Homeschool Planet vs OnFire Learning

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Homeschool Planet

This online planner simplifies homeschooling by helping families organize daily schedules, track academic progress, and generate custom reports. It integrates with lesson plans from top publishers, saving time and providing a flexible, intuitive solution for record-keeping.

Highlights
  • Integrated lesson plans from top publishers
  • Daily schedule organization
  • Progress tracking
  • Custom report generation
  • Flexible scheduling options
  • Parent and child sign-ins
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Homeschool Planet Online Planner Your All-in-One Homeschooling Solution Homeschool Planet is the ultimate online planner for homeschooling families. Whether you’re a seasoned homeschooler or just starting out, our easy-to-use platform helps you organize your day, track your progress, and create custom reports for homeschool record keeping. Plus, we partner with top homeschool publishers to offer integrated lesson plans that effortlessly sync with your planner. Created by homeschoolers, for homeschoolers, Homeschool Planet has everything you need for homeschool lesson planning, scheduling, and reporting. Key Features: - Lesson Plans from Top Homeschool Curriculum Publishers: seamlessly and effortlessly add lessons to your planner. - Save Time & Stay Organized: Manage everything in one place—lesson plans, grades, schedules, and more. - Flexible & Intuitive: Adapt your plans to fit your family’s rhythm, whether you’re homeschooling year-round, on a traditional schedule, or somewhere in between. - Designed for Families: Built specifically for homeschoolers, with features tailored to meet your unique needs. Separate sign-ins for parent and each child. Simplify your homeschool and experience the freedom of a customized plan that works for your family. Download Homeschool Planet now - saving you time is how we spend ours!

About

OnFire Learning

Access course materials, take quizzes, and submit assignments on your mobile device. Track your progress, view grades, and communicate with others. Designed for seamless learning on the go.

Highlights
  • Take quizzes with result summaries
  • View and submit assignments
  • Browse lessons with progress tracking
  • See learning objectives
  • Track course grades and scores
  • Switch between multiple user roles
  • Faster and more reliable messaging
Features
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Quizzes — Take quizzes directly in the app with smooth, reliable attempts. Students can view quiz result summaries, including percentage grades and attempt details when available, right in the quiz flow. Review screens are clearer, matching and choice answers are easier to read, and math content is fully supported. Assignments — View assignment details, submit work, and track submission status from your device. Assignment pages support richer content, improved table scrolling, better file handling, and more reliable draft saving. File attachments can be downloaded and opened directly from the app. Lessons — Browse lesson parts with media support, practice questions, and automatic progress tracking as you move through each part. Lesson and course progress handling is more reliable when returning to content and across different user roles. Learning Objectives — Lessons, assignments, and quizzes can display mapped learning objectives in the mobile experience when available. Next Activity — After finishing a lesson, submitting a quiz, or viewing an assignment, tap “Next Activity” to move straight to the next item in your course. Grades — View your course grade and per-activity score breakdown for assignments, quizzes, and peer reviews directly from the course experience. Multiple Roles — Users with more than one role can switch roles more easily in the app, and profile handling is more reliable for guardians, mentors, teachers, and admins. Messaging — Messaging is faster and more reliable, with improved keyboard handling, better thread behavior, cleaner compose and send flows, and sent messages appearing more consistently where you expect them. Organization Selection — Users with access to many organizations can now search and page through the organization list more easily during login. Improved Notifications — Push notifications are saved as messages so important updates are easier to find later. Bug Fixes & Stability — Fixes across course images, review displays, progress indicators, touch interactions, access handling, keyboard behavior, and overall reliability.

Screenshots

Homeschool Planet4 screens
OnFire Learning3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OnFire Learning at 5.0 against Homeschool Planet's 4.2. OnFire Learning also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Homeschool Planet's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OnFire Learning holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Homeschool Planet has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Homeschool Planet's written reviews are positive against 100% of OnFire Learning's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Homeschool Planet versus OnFire Learning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeschool PlanetOnFire Learning
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (11 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11 — better2
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHomeschool PlanetSynapse Education Solutions LLC

Customer experience

Homeschool Planet

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

OnFire Learning

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Homeschool Planet

No in-app purchases

None

OnFire Learning

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Homeschool Planet free?
Homeschool Planet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OnFire Learning free?
OnFire Learning is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Homeschool Planet or OnFire Learning?
OnFire Learning is rated higher. Homeschool Planet averages 4.2 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while OnFire Learning averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Homeschool Planet or OnFire Learning have ads?
Neither Homeschool Planet nor OnFire Learning shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Homeschool Planet or OnFire Learning?
Homeschool Planet ships an update fortnightly, and OnFire Learning fortnightly. Most recently, Homeschool Planet was updated on September 8, 2026 and OnFire Learning on September 20, 2026.

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