Head to head

Romeschool vs. Homeschool Planet

Homeschool Planet positions itself as: A full-featured online planner and calendar for the homeschool day.

Compiled by Romeschool AI. Take it with a grain of salt — probably true though, and current as of 2026-07-12.

The most established planner on the market. We're the office built around the planner.

What Homeschool Planet does best

A mature, deeply-featured calendar with the largest plug-in lesson-plan library of anyone here.

A 3,100+ Lesson Plan Marketplace you can import with one click
A missed-day prompt with real choices — carry forward, shift, or leave the schedule alone — that reviewers single out as their favorite feature
Email and text reminders, customizable transcripts, iOS + Android apps
A flat household price — unlimited kids — and a 30-day trial with no card

Choose Homeschool Planet if

All you need is a planner and a big pre-built lesson-plan library, and you want to spend less per year. Homeschool Planet is excellent at exactly that, and at $84.95/year it's cheaper than us for a single job.

Where the difference shows up for your family

The places a single-purpose tool leaves a gap — and Romeschool fills it.

A speech every week, scored on the device

One course takes the floor each week. Your student builds the speech Mon–Thu and stands Friday. On-device transcription + an AI reasoning rubric scores thesis, structure, and whether they answered the other side; you score presence. The voice never leaves your device. Most tools on this list plan the week or grade a worksheet — they do not form a speaker.

Missed days, without the morning quiz

Their rescheduler is genuinely good — and it works by asking: a login popup with five choices per missed item, plus a helper tool. Romeschool's answer is calmer. Nothing reshuffles itself; a missed day waits where you left it until one tap either logs it or rolls the time forward across the days ahead. No morning quiz, and nothing ever moves without you seeing it.

The planner is free

Romeschool's planner, logbook, and records run free for every family with an account — no card, no 30-day clock. Membership opens the Academy curriculum; the operating system that runs the year does not hold you hostage.

Your state's rules, handled

Romeschool files your Notice of Intent, keeps a requirement sheet for all 50 states, and reminds you before each deadline. Most planners leave every word of that to you.

ESA dollars, audit-ready — coming soon

Romeschool is building first-class ESA support: capture receipts, tag approved categories, keep eligibility references for ClassWallet / Odyssey / MyScholarShop states. No other tool here is even attempting it — a generic expense field isn't the same thing.

Field trips that count

24,000+ destinations, curriculum-classified and mapped from your door — a real finder, not a calendar you type trips into. (Group coordination via Forays is on the way.)

Bottom line

Homeschool Planet plans the week. Romeschool plans the week, forms a speaker every Friday, and handles the state, the funding, and the field trips around it.

The receipts

Every realm, side by side

The full comparison behind the argument — sourced and dated. We lead with the realms we own.

Where we lead

State Requirements & Filing

Staying on the right side of your state's rules — the part most planners leave entirely to you.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Notice of Intent filing helpYesGuided Notice-of-Intent wizard (FL/TN/GA + 22 template states)NoNot a planner feature

Per-state requirement sheetsYesAll 50 statesNoCo-op site has separate state pages; not in the planner

Deadline remindersYesNOI renewal reminders, escalatingYesEmail + text reminders (not requirement-specific)

Evaluator-ready reportingYesEvaluator letter + portfolio presetsPartialPrintable transcripts/reports usable for evaluators; no dedicated workflow

Where we lead

Law & Policy Alerts

When the rules change, you hear about it — automatically, for your state.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Legislative / policy alertsYesDaily law/policy alert engine with web-search discoveryNoNot in planner

Per-state alertsYesSubscribe by state + impact levelNo

Where we lead

ESA Funds Support

Education Savings Account money is real and growing. Romeschool is building first-class ESA support — capture, categorize, and keep it audit-ready — and no other tool here is even attempting it.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

ESA expense trackingComing soonESA Wallet expense ledger is in buildNoNot in planner

Receipt captureComing soonNo

Approved-category taggingComing soonNo

Eligibility referencesComing soonStatute-cited eligibility referencesNoCo-op has a separate 'Funding by State' page; not in the product

ESA-platform awarenessClassWallet / Odyssey / MyScholarShopComing soonBuilt for ClassWallet / Odyssey / MyScholarShop statesNoNo ClassWallet/Odyssey/MyScholarShop integration in planner

Where we lead

Field Trips & Resource Discovery

Tens of thousands of real, curriculum-classified destinations — not a blank calendar.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Field-trip finderYes24,000+ destinationsNo (in planner)Co-op runs a separate Field Trip Finder; not inside the planner

Location-based discoveryYesMap + radius search from homeNo (in planner)Co-op field-trip map only

Destination databaseYes17,600+ curriculum-classified destinationsNo (in planner)

Where we lead

Curriculum Matching

Help choosing what to teach — not just a place to type in what you already chose.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Curriculum matchingYesPublic Curriculum Finder quiz (AI-ranked, no login)No (in planner)Co-op has a separate Selection Engine; not the planner

Marketplace / plan importCSV importMarketplace is listings; lesson-plan import is via CSVYes3,100+ pre-made plans via Lesson Plan Marketplace, one-click import

AI curriculum augmentationYesOptional LLM augmentation on per-child free textNo (in planner)AI lives in the co-op's separate engine, not Planet

Curriculum & Instruction

The education itself — the courses, the weekly speech, the teaching, and the record that stands behind them. Most planners include none of this; most schools include only this. Romeschool includes a full classical humanities core (and names the gaps: math, discrete labs) plus a speech-a-week ladder scored by an on-device AI rubric — a teacher substitute for the reasoning, while you judge presence.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Curriculum includedThe actual courses — not just a place to plan themYesA full classical humanities core — ~25 courses across five tracks, climbing to Via Rhetorica — plus a ~1,100-title curriculum finder for everything else. We name our gaps: no math curriculum (deliberate), one integrated lab science, not discrete Bio/Chem/PhysicsNoHolds the curriculum you pick; it doesn't include one

Live teacher instructionNo live Zoom classesSelf-paced, author-voiced lessons. The weekly speech is delivered to the household (not a remote teacher); cohort Forum days are on the roadmap—

Weekly speech / declamationStudent stands and delivers on a set weekly rhythmYes — every weekDeclamatio: one course takes the floor each week. Mon–Thu build inventio → actio; Friday the student stands and delivers to the household. Written finish if there's no recorder that weekNoNo weekly household speech / declamation cadence

AI speech scoring (on-device)Transcription + rubric on reasoning; voice stays on deviceYes — on-device AI rubricSpeech is transcribed entirely on your device (voice never touches our servers). AI scores the reasoning — thesis clear, argument holds, answers the other side — and clocks delivery (pace, pauses, ums). You score the one thing only an audience can: presence. Two judges, one score, logged to the recordNoNo on-device transcription + AI reasoning rubric

Outside grading / evaluationAI speech rubric + parent writing rubricsWeekly speech: on-device transcription + AI reasoning rubric (teacher-substitute for the argument). Quizzes/tests auto-scored where built. Writing and capstones ship with a rubric you score — students write outside the app. No human outside-evaluator service yet (roadmap)—

Accreditation / diplomaRecords, not accreditedNo homeschool curriculum is accredited — but Atheneum Academy LLC issues the transcript and you keep a per-child year-end portfolio + evidence trail (evidence beats accreditation; see /guides/is-romeschool-accredited)—

Track recordYears running / alumniFounding (2026)New — the Founding Families cohort, with a published course calendar shipping through fall—

Identity & Platform

Who builds it, on what, and how long free access runs before a card is required.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

PlatformWeb / iOS / AndroidWebResponsive web app — runs in any phone, tablet, or desktop browser; no app-store downloadWeb + iOS + AndroidApp is a companion; full setup is on the web

Owner / publisherAtheneum Academy LLCHomeschool Buyers Club

Founded2026Mid-2010sParent co-op founded 2005; Planet launched later — exact year not stated

Actively updatedContinuouslyBuilt and updated daily through pre-launchActively maintainedNew lesson plans added monthly; native app ~2024–25

Free trial lengthFree OS + free sample unitPlanner, logbook & records free with an account (no card). Free public sample: A Sense of Scale Unit 1. Full Academy curriculum is membership (founders rates)30 days

Card required for trialNoNoNo credit card or commitment required

Core Planning & Logbook

The daily workhorse — planning lessons, logging what got done, tracking hours.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Lesson planningYesAuto-generated, rhythm-aware year planYes

Drag-and-drop rescheduleReshuffle queueLessons reflow via an explicit queue, not drag-and-dropYesDrag-and-drop assignment bumping

Daily logbookYesPlus omnivorous intake — type, snap a photo, or speakYes

Attendance & hoursYesMinutes/hours per subject, per childYesAttendance + class hours

Auto-reschedule missed workYesRedistribute engine folds missed work into lighter daysYesAutomatic rescheduling

Reporting & Portfolio

The records that prove the year happened — transcripts, portfolios, clean exports.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

TranscriptsYesPrintable academic transcriptYesCustomizable, with honors/test scores

Report cardsNoTranscripts + year-end portfolio insteadYes

Year-end portfolioYesPer-child, per-year portfolio artifactNoReports/transcripts only; no dedicated portfolio artifact

PDF exportYesClient-side PDF (no print-dialog hacks)Yes

Custom reportsPortfolio presetsState / evaluator / full export presetsYesCustomizable transcripts/reports

AI Features

What the software actually does for you with AI — not a checkbox, a capability. Romeschool's headline: on-device speech transcription scored against a reasoning rubric (thesis, argument, answering the other side, pace) so the voice never leaves the household device.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

AI presentNone / Matching / Generation / Speech scoringSpeech scoring + matching + assistantNone (in planner)AI is in sibling co-op products, not Planet

What the AI doesOn-device speech transcription scored by a reasoning rubric (thesis, structure, other side, delivery clocks); family assistant with tool loop; curriculum matching; logbook intake. Voice never leaves the deviceNo AI inside the plannerCo-op separately offers an AI curriculum-selection engine + 'Virtua' platform

Experience & Design

How it feels to live in every day — on the couch, on the phone, mid-school-morning.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Mobile appResponsive webWorks in any mobile browser; no native app to downloadYes (companion)iOS + Android companion app (launched Nov 2024) for daily check-off; planning/setup is still desktop-web

Setup effortLow / Medium / HighLowGuided onboarding + auto year-planLow–Medium'Up and running in minutes'; tutorials provided

DesignDated / Functional / ModernModernModernReviewers call it clean/intuitive

Multi-Child

Running more than one student without doing the work more than once.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Multiple studentsYesParent-aware multi-child schedulingYesHousehold = unlimited

Shared subjects across studentsYesWhole-family subjectsYesAssign/share a class across students

Community

Finding other families — safely — for group trips and shared days.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Social / friends layerNoThe in-person HomeSocial layer was retiredNo

Groups / co-op coordinationComing soonForays — group field-trip coordination, in buildNoMulti-user co-op licenses, but no social groups

Data & Privacy

Whose data it is, and whether it's the product. Romeschool's speech feature never uploads a child's voice — transcription stays on the household device.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

You own your dataYesYour records are yours; export anytimeFamily's data; daily backupsSpecifics governed by privacy policy

Sells your dataNoUnknownNo explicit statement found

Ad-freeYesYesPaid subscription, no ads

Child voice on vendor serversWhether speech audio leaves the deviceNo — never uploadedRecording and transcription for Declamatio happen entirely on-device; nothing is submitted until a parent has read the transcript and pressed send—

Support & Onboarding

How much hand-holding you get when you're new and it's August.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Support channelsEmail + in-app assistantsupport@romeschool.appIn-app tutorials + email/helpPhone not confirmed

Training / docsIn-app guidanceHelp content still being built outYesStep-by-step videos/tutorials

Guided onboardingYesSetup wizard + dashboard checklistPartialTutorials/quick-start, not a wizard

Pricing & Value

What it costs over the years you'll actually homeschool — not just the first sign-up. Romeschool is priced per student (rates step down for siblings); the planner, logbook, and records are free for every family.

RomeschoolHomeschool Planet

Billing modelMonthly / yearly / per-studentYearly, per studentCurriculum graduated per student; planner, logbook & records free for every familyMonthly or yearly; household = unlimited students

Entry price$999/yrFounding rate for the first student — founding price for year one. renewal rate guaranteed forever. (half the $1,499 standing rate). Planner free$9.95/mo

Whole-family priceUnlimited childrenGraduated per studentFounders: $999 first, $499 second, $499 each additional — planner free for all$84.95/yrHousehold, unlimited students

Co-op / group pricingNot publishedNo separate co-op SKU yet$225.95–$699.95 (co-op/school tiers)Plus teacher tiers $119.95–$199.95

Price over timerises-annually / flat / lifetime-lockedLocked for foundersFounding Families hold the founder per-student rate for life; the standing schedule is higher once the founding closesunknownNo published statement on renewal increases

Lifetime price lockYesFounding price for year one. Renewal rate guaranteed forever. — founders pay below the standing per-student schedule, held for the students they have now and any they add laterNoNo lifetime/price-locked option documented

Free tierYes — OS + sample unitPlanner/logbook/records free forever with an account; A Sense of Scale Unit 1 free no account; full courses require membershipNoTrial only

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