Lesson Ideas vs Class Planner (cloud)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lesson Ideas
This app offers a collection of teaching starters, plenaries, and other tips for educators. It features contributions from a school's teaching and learning group and other members of the teaching profession.
- Teaching starters
- Plenaries
- Top tips for educators
- Professionally submitted ideas
- Collaborative content creation
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Starters, Plenaries and Other Top Tips, created by the Teaching and Learning group of Graveney School, London, in collaboration with MadeByEduactors. Further ideas provided submitted by members of the teaching profession and shared for the love of the job!
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 Lesson Ideas's 3.0. Class Planner (cloud) also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 53 months) and ratings volume (53 vs 2). Lesson Ideas's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Class Planner (cloud) sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Lesson Ideas asks for nothing beyond the download.
Class Planner (cloud) holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Class Planner (cloud) has 53 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Lesson Ideas's written reviews are positive against 71% of Class Planner (cloud)'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lesson Ideas ships an update every 53 months, Class Planner (cloud) fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lesson Ideas | Class Planner (cloud) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.6 (53 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 53 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 53 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | madebyeducators | Glen Botha |
Customer experience
Lesson Ideas
Class Planner (cloud)
In-app purchases
Lesson Ideas
No in-app purchases
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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