Comparison

Homeschool Planner vs ひらがなキーボード

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

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About

Homeschool Planner

This app helps families organize their homeschooling year by planning lessons, tracking daily progress, and compiling a comprehensive portfolio. It simplifies attendance logging, manages student work samples, and generates a shareable report for the end of the academic year.

Highlights
  • Weekly lesson planning
  • One-tap daily logging
  • Student work sample storage
  • Automated portfolio generation
  • Attendance tracking
  • State homeschooling law summaries
  • iCloud sync
Features
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Chalk is a homeschool planner and portfolio for families who teach at home. Plan the week, log the day in one tap, keep the work that shows it, and hand in a numbered portfolio at the end of the year. YOUR YEAR AS A SUN Each child has a sun. Every subject is a ray, and each day you log lays chalk on its ray. A dial counts the days or hours your goal asks for, and Chalk tells you how many are left and how many school days a week that takes. In plain words, never in red. TODAY: ONE TAP FOR THE FAMILY Today shows each child's plan. Log a child's day in one tap, or the whole family at once with Pro. Untick what you skipped, add minutes per subject, and open, edit or delete any day later. Mark sick days, days off and breaks ahead of time or after. A PLANNER THAT MOVES WITH YOU Set up a course from a lesson count or a list of titles and choose the days it meets. Chalk puts each lesson on its next class day. Miss a Tuesday and only the courses that meet on Tuesdays move on. Each course shows the day its last lesson lands. DAYS, HOURS AND YOUR OWN WEEK Count days, hours or both, with core hours where your state counts them. Teaching Monday to Thursday, or starting mid-year? Tell Chalk once: it counts your school week, your breaks and the days you taught before you started. EVIDENCE, FILED BY SUBJECT Take a photo of a worksheet, scan a test or add a PDF. Each piece is filed by subject and date, next to books, field trips, assessments and report cards. HAND IT IN One tap turns the year into a numbered, bookmarked PDF: a cover with your child's sun, contents, a parent statement, attendance with a calendar, hours by subject, the log, the reading list, work samples, field trips, assessments with their attached reports, and report cards. The sections come in an order made for your state, and you choose what goes in. STATE INFORMATION, WITH SOURCES For every U.S. state and D.C., Chalk shows a short summary of what the homeschool law asks (days, hours, records, filings), with a link to HSLDA's page for the state, the statute where Chalk read it, and the date it was checked. It is general information, not legal advice: rules depend on the option you use and can change. YOUR RECORDS STAY YOURS Chalk syncs through your own iCloud, so the year is on every iPhone and iPad signed in to the same Apple Account. There is no account to create. Export everything, free: CSV files and every photo in one zip, any time. MORE Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Control Center button, Siri and Shortcuts, share cards of your child's year, an iPad layout with a sidebar, and a dark "slate night" look. Chalk's screens are in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian and Japanese. FREE AND PRO Free: a full year for one child, with the planner, one-tap logging, iCloud sync, export, widgets, up to 50 work samples, 20 books and 5 field trips, and a preview of the portfolio with your own numbers. Chalk Pro: the whole family at one price (every child, log for everyone, the family week), the full portfolio PDF with report cards, the attendance calendar and hours by subject, unlimited evidence, and new assessments with test reports and evaluation letters attached. Chalk Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. The price in your currency is shown in the app before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings > [your name] > Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://237LR.github.io/app-legal/Chalk/privacy.html

About

ひらがなキーボード

This app helps young children learn hiragana and practice typing. It offers interactive modes for letters and words, with a friendly character providing encouragement. Parents can track progress and customize learning.

Highlights
  • Hiragana keyboard for children
  • Practice letters and words
  • Write letters to family
  • Three practice modes
  • Progress tracking for parents
  • Customizable learning settings
  • 7-day free trial for premium features
Features
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「ひらがなキーボード」は、幼児から小学校低学年のお子さまに向けた、ひらがな・文字入力の練習アプリです。 オリジナルの五十音キーボードを使って、文字やことばを見たり、音で聞いたりしながら、自分で入力して答えます。覚えた文字で、家族に「おてがみ」を書くこともできます。 キリンの「きいちゃん」が、正解したときも、間違えてしまったときも、やさしい言葉と表情で応援します。 【おてがみを かく】 ママ・パパ・じいじ・ばあば・サンタさん・せんせい・おともだちなどから宛先を選び、ひらがなで手紙を打ちます。できあがった手紙は、きいちゃんの便箋の画像になります。 ・書いた手紙は「おてがみばこ」に残ります ・おうちのひとが、メッセージ・メールなどで送ったり、写真に保存したりできます ・画像の共有・写真への保存は保護者の確認後に行えます。手紙はおてがみばこから確認のうえ削除できます ・手紙の画像はこの端末の中で作られ、送り先を選ぶまで外部に送信されません 【3つの練習モード】 ■ もじのれんしゅう 一文字のお題を見たり聞いたりして、正しい文字を入力します。 練習する行や問題数を選べるので、お子さまの学習段階に合わせて取り組めます。 ■ ことばのれんしゅう 絵や写真を見ながら、ことばを一文字ずつ入力します。 お題の文字を表示する、画像だけを表示するなど、練習方法を変更できます。 ■ じゆうにうつ 好きな文字やことばを自由に入力できます。 入力した文字は音で確認でき、何度でも繰り返し聞けます。 【学びやすくする機能】 ・大きく見やすい、子ども向けのひらがなキーボード ・お題の音声読み上げ ・5問、10問、20問などから問題数を選択 ・正解・不正解を記録 ・間違えやすい文字やことばを集めた「にがてれんしゅう」 ・練習終了後に正答率と結果を表示 ・正解、再挑戦、結果画面で「きいちゃん」がやさしく応援 ・起動時の短いあいさつや応援音声は、設定からオン/オフ可能 【保護者の方向け機能】 ・練習したい文字やことばを選んで「いつものれんしゅう」として保存し、ホームからワンタップで開始 ・これまでの回答数、正解数、正答率、にがてを確認 ・文字別、ことば別の詳しい学習記録 ・学習記録をPDFに書き出して、家族や先生と共有 ・出題方法や文字の表示方法を設定 ・起動時のあいさつや応援音声を設定 【7日間無料で試せるプレミアム機能】 ・ひらがな/カタカナを切り替えて練習 ・カタカナで、おてがみを書く ・フリーモードで、ひらがな固定、カタカナ固定、自由切り替えを選択 ・好きな写真とことばを登録して、お子さま専用の練習カテゴリを作成 プレミアム機能は7日間無料でお試しいただけます。 無料体験の終了後に自動で課金されることはありません。引き続き利用する場合は、アプリ内から購入できます。体験期間中に登録した内容は、購入後もそのまま利用できます。 【音声について】 文字やお題の読み上げには、端末の日本語音声を使用します。 正解や「もう一度」などの声かけには、アプリに収録した応援音声を使用します。 端末や文字によって、読み上げ方が異なる場合があります。 ※本アプリは「文字を読む・聞く・入力する」練習を目的としています。手書きで文字を書く練習機能は含まれていません。

Screenshots

Homeschool Planner4 screens
ひらがなキーボード4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Homeschool Planner at 50% against ひらがなキーボード's 0%. 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. Homeschool Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ひらがなキーボード sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Homeschool Planner ships an update every 2 weeks, ひらがなキーボード weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Homeschool Planner versus ひらがなキーボード: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomeschool Plannerひらがなキーボード
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS1817.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKarol JaworskiTAKASHI KOJIMA

Customer experience

Homeschool Planner

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

ひらがなキーボード

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Homeschool Planner

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly - Chalk Pro$4.991 Month
  • Yearly - Chalk Pro$39.991 Year
  • Yearly Promo - Chalk Pro1 Year trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

ひらがなキーボード

One-time2
  • 30日チケット$0.99
  • プレミアム機能解放$2.99

Questions

Is Homeschool Planner free?
Homeschool Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ひらがなキーボード free?
ひらがなキーボード is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Homeschool Planner or ひらがなキーボード have ads?
Neither Homeschool Planner nor ひらがなキーボード shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Homeschool Planner or ひらがなキーボード?
Homeschool Planner ships an update every 2 weeks, and ひらがなキーボード weekly. Most recently, Homeschool Planner was updated on October 31, 2026 and ひらがなキーボード on November 5, 2026.

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