Planboard vs Class Planner for teachers
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Class Planner for teachers
This app helps educators organize their teaching schedules by recording lesson plans, standards, notes, and homework. It offers timetable views, easy lesson adjustments, and PDF generation for administrative needs. Sync homework assignments with Google Classroom for seamless communication.
- Lesson plan recording
- Standards association
- Timetable views (1 or 2 weeks)
- Lesson rescheduling
- PDF lesson generation
- Google Classroom homework sync
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Class Planner allows teachers to easily keep a record of their lesson plans which include the standards, lesson notes, homework and an online reference link. Features • 1 week or 2 week timetable. • Associate content standards with individual lessons • Easily import standards from a text file • View notes by week, class or day. • Easily move lessons forward or backwards to accommodate schedule changes. • Generate a PDF of the day's lesson for administrators or personal records. • Sync homework with Google Classroom announcements. Use the app for free for 1 class. Activate an autorenewable monthly subscription to support up to 20 classes. A 1 week free trial is available to test out all the features. 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 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 in-app purchases: Planboard at none against Class Planner for teachers's 1. Planboard also leads on ratings volume (1.9K vs 66) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Class Planner for teachers's advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 62%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 for teachers sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Planboard asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planboard against 4.7 for Class Planner for teachers. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planboard has 1.9K ratings behind it against 66, 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 87% of Class Planner for teachers's.
Planboard ships an update every 6 weeks, Class Planner for teachers every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planboard | Class Planner for teachers |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.9K ratings) | 4.7 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.0% of reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 66 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PowerSchool Group LLC | Glen Botha |
Customer experience
Planboard
Class Planner for teachers
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
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- More curriculum standard options
- Offline access
Class Planner for teachers
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Planboard
No in-app purchases
Class Planner for teachers
- Premium Features7 Days trial$5.991 Month
Questions
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