Lectra Notes vs Homeschool Tracker & Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lectra Notes
This app provides a private workspace for reading, annotating, and organizing PDF documents. It helps users understand dense texts faster with on-device intelligence for summaries and suggested tags. Designed for a calmer document workflow, it ensures your files remain private.
- Read and mark up PDFs
- Highlight key passages and add notes
- Organize documents with folders and tags
- Generate summaries and suggested tags
- Private by design with on-device intelligence
- Backup and sync library
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Lectra is a workspace for the documents you think on: lecture slides, problem sets, papers, and textbooks, marked up by hand and kept in one library that works without a signal. READ AND MARK UP Open any PDF and work it over with Apple Pencil. A pressure-responsive pen, highlighter, and eraser in a calm, distraction-free editor keep your ink sharp at any zoom. Select the document's own text with a finger. On Apple Pencil Pro, squeeze to switch tools. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Folded, Lectra fits the outer screen. Open it, and your page spreads across the full display, with every control kept clear of the camera and status bar. On iPad, keep two documents side by side. RECORD THE LECTURE BESIDE YOUR NOTES Start recording from a control that floats above the whole app, then keep writing. Tap a handwritten stroke to hear what was being said as the pen moved. Drag the playhead and watch the page fill back in, stroke by stroke. Transcription runs on your iPad, and an hour of lecture takes about 15 MB. NOTEBOOKS AND PAPER Start from a blank page when the thinking hasn't found a document yet. Choose blank, lined, grid, dotted, or Cornell paper for each new page, then export your pages as PDFs. SCAN ANYTHING Bring paper into the record. Scan pages with the camera and mark them up like any other PDF. ASK YOUR DOCUMENTS Ask a question about what you're reading and get an answer that cites the page it came from. Summarize a document to get to the point faster. These features run on your iPad, are off until you turn them on, and never use your notes or documents to train a model. WHEN READING TURNS INTO WORK Run Python where you already work: notebooks with charts, a real shell, Git, and a code editor, all on your iPad and all offline. The document and the work on it stay in the same place. YOUR MAC, TOO Lectra for Mac is a free download at canvascope.org/mac. It brings the whole app to your desktop, puts your Mac on your iPad as a remote desktop, sends documents straight between iPad and Mac, and shares one clipboard. The Remote Desktop assistant can open a website, search, or launch an app on your Mac in one step, and asks before it acts unless you turn on Auto-run. A LIBRARY THAT KEEPS UP Everything in one place, available offline, and backed up when you sign in. Your documents are yours: export them anytime, in formats that open anywhere. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads and no tracking. Lectra is free to use.
Homeschool Tracker & Planner
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Hearth is the homeschool tracker that keeps your attendance and hours for you, so records are ready before anyone asks. Log each lesson in seconds: date, hours, subject, what you covered, and a photo of the work. Every day with an entry counts as a school day. Hearth totals days and instructional hours for the school year and shows exactly where you stand against your state's requirement. LOG A LESSON IN SECONDS - Tap +, enter hours (1.5 works fine) or run the lesson timer - Subjects as chips, plus your own (Latin, co-op, nature study) - Snap the worksheet or project as a work sample - One student or the whole family, each with their own record A TARGET THAT MATCHES YOUR STATE - Pick your state and Hearth sets the days and hours from its published rules, checked against official state sources - No statewide number? Set the target your evaluator, umbrella school, or district expects - Two progress bars: school days and instructional hours RECORDS READY WHEN SOMEONE ASKS - Attendance & hours log PDF: one row per school day with hours and subjects, hours by subject, totals against your target, and a parent certification block with a signature line - Portfolio PDF: every lesson with notes and work-sample photos, in date order - CSV export for spreadsheets and evaluators PRIVATE BY DESIGN - Your family's records live on your iPhone: no account, no cloud, no tracking - Optional Face ID lock - Works fully offline Free to start: log your first 14 entries on us. Hearth Pro unlocks unlimited entries, the attendance and portfolio PDFs, CSV export, and Face ID lock, as a one-time Lifetime purchase or a Yearly subscription. State information is a convenience summary and not legal advice. Requirements change; confirm with your state. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://bkdigitalleads-cmyk.github.io/hearth/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lectra Notes at none against Homeschool Tracker & Planner's 3. Homeschool Tracker & Planner's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Homeschool Tracker & Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Lectra Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Lectra Notes ships an update weekly, Homeschool Tracker & Planner every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lectra Notes | Homeschool Tracker & Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noel Sason | Brian Kershner |
In-app purchases
Lectra Notes
No in-app purchases
Homeschool Tracker & Planner
- Hearth Pro Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Hearth Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- Hearth Pro Lifetime$14.99
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