Classroom Planner vs Lessonday
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Classroom Planner
Organize your classroom with smart seating charts, student management, and weekly timetables. Plan your entire school year, including terms and holidays, all in one app. Export plans and customize themes for a personalized teaching experience.
- Smart seating chart design
- Student organization and tracking
- Weekly timetable creation
- School year planning
- Exportable seating plans
- Customizable themes
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Plan your classroom, timetable and school year in one place. Classroom Planner helps teachers build seating charts, organise students, create weekly timetables and keep daily plans clear—without juggling separate apps. SMART SEATING CHARTS • Design classroom layouts with tables, chairs and custom objects • Record student conflicts and use automatic algorithms to reduce problem pairings • Choose from several seating methods, including balanced and minimum-conflict options • Fine-tune every result with drag and drop • Save different seating plans for different classes and lessons CLASSES AND STUDENT GROUPS • Keep digital class lists with useful student details • Track homework, permission slips, merits or your own custom information • Create balanced groups and random student selections • Add notes for the information you need during the school day TIMETABLES AND DAILY PLANNING • Build colour-coded weekly timetables for subjects, classes and classrooms • Create reusable day structures with periods, breaks and lunch • See teaching commitments by day and week • Keep notes, checklists and to-do reminders together YOUR WHOLE SCHOOL YEAR • Add terms, holidays, bank holidays and training days to a school-year calendar • Connect timetables with classes and classrooms • Map curriculum topics across terms and subjects in a flexible long-term overview SHARE AND PERSONALISE • Export seating plans as PDF or PNG for printing and sharing • Choose colour themes, app icons and home-screen layouts • Adjust accessibility, date and time settings to suit the way you work CLASSROOM PLANNER PRO Upgrade to Pro for unlimited classes, students, seating plans and timetables, advanced classroom objects, export options and more customisation. Download Classroom Planner and spend less time organising tools—and more time teaching. Classroom Planner offers an optional auto-renewing Pro subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Lessonday
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Lessonday is the planner for people who teach on their own. Paste the message you were sent: the date and time are read on your iPhone and filled in for you, and a student you already have is matched by name. REMINDED BEFORE, NOT AFTER Every lesson reminds you before it starts, with time to get there. See what is next the moment you open the app: who, when, where, and what you planned to cover. THE ADDRESS IS ALREADY THERE Each lesson keeps its own address, and the places you already teach at are one tap away when you book the next one. Open a lesson and get directions to it without typing the address again. THE MONTH ADDS UP Hours taught, what they came to, how many students you are actively seeing, and how it is all trending. WHO TO BOOK NEXT Lessonday sorts your students by who you have not taught in the longest, so the ones quietly going cold surface before you notice they are gone. ONE RATE, OR AS MANY AS YOU NEED Set what you charge once and every lesson picks it up. Charge differently for a subject or for a student, and the more specific rate wins. Student beats subject beats default. WHATEVER YOU TEACH Thirty-eight subjects across nine kinds of teaching: music, sport and fitness, academics, language, martial arts, dance, arts and crafts, tech and mind games. Anything missing, you add in a moment and it behaves exactly like the rest. ON IPAD AND APPLE WATCH On iPad, your lessons and the one you are looking at sit side by side. On Apple Watch, raise your wrist for today's lessons and what you planned to cover, and tap once for directions. Your next lesson can sit right on the watch face. NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT, NO SIGNAL NEEDED There are no ads in Lessonday and nothing to sign up for. Your lessons and students live on your iPhone, so it opens instantly and never waits on a connection. Everything is also kept in your own private iCloud database, tied to your Apple Account rather than to us: we run no server that holds your records, and no account here can read your students' names. Sign in on a new iPhone and years of teaching are already there. It is a notebook for your own teaching, not a platform your students log into. Open it, teach, close it. Your week is already written down.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lessonday at none against Classroom Planner's 6. Lessonday also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Classroom Planner sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Lessonday asks for nothing beyond the download.
Classroom Planner ships an update monthly, Lessonday fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Classroom Planner | Lessonday |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Biddulph | 跃洋 王 |
In-app purchases
Classroom Planner
- Weekly Pro Subscription$1.997 Days
- Monthly Pro Subscription$4.991 Month
- Annual Pro Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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- Annual Pro Subscription$19.991 Year
- 10 Tokens$7.99
- Lifetime Pro$99.99
Lessonday
No in-app purchases
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