Comparison

Planboard vs Teacher Aide Pro

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

Head to head
About

Planboard

This app helps educators create, edit, and organize lesson plans with curriculum standards and attachments. It features a beautiful timetable view and syncs across devices, allowing teachers to plan on the go and reduce prep time.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and share lesson plans
  • Organize timetable, subjects, and semesters
  • Manage curriculum standards
  • Add attachments to lesson plans
  • Syncs with web version
  • Easy setup
Features
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Plan lessons on the go in an easy-to-use editor with curriculum standards and attachments. Planboard organizes your lessons, subjects, and semesters in a beautiful timetable that is with you everywhere. Join over 250,000 teachers around the world who are already using Planboard to cut down their classroom prep time and spend more time with students! —————————————————————————————— FEATURES • 100% free for teachers! • Create, edit, and share lesson plans • Organize your timetable, subjects, and semesters • Manage curriculum standards • Take photos and add files to lesson plans • Syncs with Planboard on the web • Fast and easy to get set up WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING “A fantastic app that has transformed my lesson planning...I have dumped my old paper planner for good. This is an excellent app.” - benjro “I love this program! I can create my lessons in a jiffy- dare I say lesson planning is almost *fun* now?! I can even do lesson planning while on the go because the program now syncs with the app- SCORE! I love being able to be out and about and not have to be tied to my computer, but if I think of something for a lesson, I can just plug it right in!...And all of this awesomeness is on the FREE version. I love this software!!!” - Tater and her tots “I have been looking for a planning and attendance app for so long! This app is absolutely perfect, whether you’re using it on your iPad, iPhone or using the online site on your computer it works flawlessly! Thank you so much!” - Ethie56 “This app is exactly what I was looking for! I have tried many digital planning options and this is by far the best. Being able to change my planner easily on my iPad or computer makes it so easy to change plans and have them there ready to go...Great app!” - J.Lee.17 “So much better than planning in a paper based planner. I like being able to check my lessons or add to them as ideas occur to me using my phone on the go.” - KT28363838 “Will render you pencil & paper daybook obsolete. It is fantastic for your day to day planning and makes printing off a paper copy for a supply teacher super easy” - Mr.Esss “I have been using it for three years now and love the planning/assessment tools. My principal asked me to inform the rest of the staff about this program. It has helped me make my teaching more organized.” - Stolenfeather “I feel as though I would not be as organized without Chalk! And the fact that it’s free makes it even more amazing! As we know as teachers we spend a lot of our own money on supplies for our students and having a program this amazing for free means I can spend more on my students so thank you!” - btpuggy “I wish I had found Planboard years ago! It has changed my entire approach to planning lessons! I cannot recommend this app enough” - BryarsMom SUPPORT The Chalk Team can be reached anytime by email at support@chalk.com, or during the day by live chat to assist you with getting the most out of Planboard.

About

Teacher Aide Pro

Manage student attendance, grades, and seating charts with ease. Identify at-risk students and communicate with parents and advisors through bulk email. Sync rosters from Google Classroom and export grades to other systems.

Highlights
  • Attendance tracking
  • Gradebook management
  • Seating chart creation
  • At-risk student identification
  • Bulk email notifications
  • Google Classroom roster sync
  • Grade export to grading systems
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Designed by a teacher, for teachers! • Attendance, Gradebook & Seating Chart • Variety of PDF reports • Identify students at-risk due to attendance or grades • Easily notify students, parents and advisors with bulk email. • Easily sync student roster from Google Classroom • Export grades to Schoolloop and other grading systems Teacher Aide Pro allows use of the attendance and gradebook for 1 class for free. An auto-renewable monthly subscription supports up to 20 classes for a maximum of 6 terms. Access to additional features such as the seating chart, PDF reports and the At-Risk student screen for all classes. More updates will continue to arrive monthly. Autorenewable Subscription Details To access additional features the user needs to subscribe to an auto renewable monthly 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. 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. Please email the developer at support@inpocketsolutions.com with any questions or suggestions. Privacy Policy: https://inpocketsolutions.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://inpocketsolutions.com/terms Facebook page www.facebook.com/TeacherAidePro

Screenshots

Planboard4 screens
Teacher Aide Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Planboard at none against Teacher Aide Pro's 1. Planboard also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 113) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Teacher Aide Pro sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Planboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planboard against 4.6 for Teacher Aide Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planboard has 1.9K ratings behind it against 113, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Planboard's written reviews are positive against 60% of Teacher Aide Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Planboard versus Teacher Aide Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanboardTeacher Aide Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better4.6 (113 ratings)
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.9K — better113
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPowerSchool Group LLCGlen Botha

Customer experience

Planboard

All ratings1,863 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews187 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative31.6%

Teacher Aide Pro

All ratings113 ratings
Positive91.2%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral13.3%
Negative26.7%

Bugs and requests

Planboard

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when adding classes
  • Scheduling issues with non-standard time slots
  • Inability to log in or create account
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Lesson plan data loss

Requested features

7 requests
  • Month view option
  • Unit planning view
  • Ability to add events/meetings
  • Google Calendar integration
  • Behavior tracking/logging
Show 2 more
  • More curriculum standard options
  • Offline access

Teacher Aide Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Planboard

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Teacher Aide Pro

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Features7 Days trial$6.991 Month

Questions

Is Planboard free?
Planboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Teacher Aide Pro free?
Teacher Aide Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Planboard or Teacher Aide Pro?
Planboard is rated higher. Planboard averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Teacher Aide Pro averages 4.6 from 113 ratings.
Do Planboard or Teacher Aide Pro have ads?
Neither Planboard nor Teacher Aide Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Planboard or Teacher Aide Pro?
Planboard ships an update every 6 weeks, and Teacher Aide Pro every 6 weeks. Most recently, Planboard was updated on October 23, 2026 and Teacher Aide Pro on October 23, 2026.

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