Head to head

Romeschool vs. Numa School

Numa School positions itself as: Markets an all-in-one homeschool platform: state compliance, ESA funds, curriculum, records — same vision, locked-for-life founding pricing.

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

The closest thing to our vision on paper — and the furthest from it in what's actually built.

What Numa School does best

Marketing the same idea we ship: state compliance, ESA funds, curriculum, and records under one all-in-one subscription.

A serious, well-connected team (a venture partner + a YC-backed founder)
An enormous, genuinely useful library of per-state funding & law guides
Markets state-requirement auto-population + ESA fund management — the same combination we do
A modern, confident brand and the same all-in-one, one-price pitch

Choose Numa School if

You want the funding-and-compliance pitch and you're an early adopter comfortable betting on a young, content-first product whose planner, logbook, and ESA tools are still mostly marketing claims.

Where the difference shows up for your family

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

Built, not just billed

We ship a self-balancing planner (free for every family), an omnivorous logbook (type, snap, or speak), a weekly speech scored on-device, in-app NOI filing, transcripts, and a year-end portfolio — today. Numa markets these; depth unverified on a site that's overwhelmingly SEO guides.

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.

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.)

When the law changes

We monitor homeschool legislation daily and alert you for your state. No planner on this list watches the statehouse for you.

Bottom line

Numa markets the rows. Romeschool runs them — including a speech every week with an on-device AI rubric — plus a 24,000-destination field-trip finder and daily per-state law alerts.

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

Notice of Intent filing helpYesGuided Notice-of-Intent wizard (FL/TN/GA + 22 template states)NoPer-state funding/law INFO pages, not an in-app NOI filing flow

Per-state requirement sheetsYesAll 50 statesYes (claimed)'Auto-populated requirements for your jurisdiction'

Deadline remindersYesNOI renewal reminders, escalatingUnverified

Evaluator-ready reportingYesEvaluator letter + portfolio presetsYes (claimed)'Audit-ready' records/portfolios/transcripts

Where we lead

Law & Policy Alerts

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Legislative / policy alertsYesDaily law/policy alert engine with web-search discoveryNoNo law/policy monitoring or alert feature found — info pages are static

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

ESA expense trackingComing soonESA Wallet expense ledger is in buildYes (claimed)'ESA fund management' — depth unverified

Receipt captureComing soonUnverified

Approved-category taggingComing soonUnverified

Eligibility referencesComing soonStatute-cited eligibility referencesPartialPer-state funding info pages

ESA-platform awarenessClassWallet / Odyssey / MyScholarShopComing soonBuilt for ClassWallet / Odyssey / MyScholarShop statesUnverifiedNo ClassWallet/Odyssey/MyScholarShop integration surfaced

Where we lead

Field Trips & Resource Discovery

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Field-trip finderYes24,000+ destinationsNoCommunity/activity discovery, NOT a destination finder/catalog

Location-based discoveryYesMap + radius search from homePartial'Discover co-ops, activities, events, like-minded families'

Destination databaseYes17,600+ curriculum-classified destinationsNoNo curated destination database

Where we lead

Curriculum Matching

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Curriculum matchingYesPublic Curriculum Finder quiz (AI-ranked, no login)PartialBuilds curriculum plans; no quiz-style matcher confirmed

Marketplace / plan importCSV importMarketplace is listings; lesson-plan import is via CSVUnverified

AI curriculum augmentationYesOptional LLM augmentation on per-child free textUnverifiedCurriculum planning; parent-facing AI not confirmed

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

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/PhysicsNoPlans curriculum with you; 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.

RomeschoolNuma School

PlatformWeb / iOS / AndroidWebResponsive web app — runs in any phone, tablet, or desktop browser; no app-store downloadWebWeb app; no native mobile app surfaced

Owner / publisherAtheneum Academy LLCCalvin Clayton + John TambuntingLong Run Capital partner + YC-backed Pangea.app co-founder

Founded2026~2024–2025New entrant; venture-adjacent founders

Actively updatedContinuouslyBuilt and updated daily through pre-launchActive 2026Large, current 2026 content library

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)UnverifiedNot surfaced

Card required for trialNoUnverified

Core Planning & Logbook

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Lesson planningYesAuto-generated, rhythm-aware year planYes (claimed)'Flexible weekly planner'

Drag-and-drop rescheduleReshuffle queueLessons reflow via an explicit queue, not drag-and-dropUnverified

Daily logbookYesPlus omnivorous intake — type, snap a photo, or speakYes (claimed)'Log learning in seconds'

Attendance & hoursYesMinutes/hours per subject, per childYes (claimed)Attendance tracking

Auto-reschedule missed workYesRedistribute engine folds missed work into lighter daysUnverifiedNo self-balancing/reshuffle evidence

Reporting & Portfolio

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

RomeschoolNuma School

TranscriptsYesPrintable academic transcriptYes (claimed)Transcript generation — GPA/credits/course descriptions

Report cardsNoTranscripts + year-end portfolio insteadUnverified

Year-end portfolioYesPer-child, per-year portfolio artifactYes (claimed)'Generate portfolios … with one click'

PDF exportYesClient-side PDF (no print-dialog hacks)Yes (claimed)'Audit-ready' documents

Custom reportsPortfolio presetsState / evaluator / full export presetsUnverified

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

AI presentNone / Matching / Generation / Speech scoringSpeech scoring + matching + assistantUnverifiedNo parent-facing AI feature clearly marketed

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 deviceUnverified

Experience & Design

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Mobile appResponsive webWorks in any mobile browser; no native app to downloadNoWeb-first; no native app surfaced

Setup effortLow / Medium / HighLowGuided onboarding + auto year-planUnverified

DesignDated / Functional / ModernModernModernPolished, content-heavy marketing site

Multi-Child

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Multiple studentsYesParent-aware multi-child schedulingYes (claimed)'Manage your entire homeschool, no matter how many children'

Shared subjects across studentsYesWhole-family subjectsUnverified

Community

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

RomeschoolNuma School

Social / friends layerNoThe in-person HomeSocial layer was retiredPartial'Discover … like-minded families'

Groups / co-op coordinationComing soonForays — group field-trip coordination, in buildPartial'Discover co-ops'

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

You own your dataYesYour records are yours; export anytimeUnverified

Sells your dataNoUnknownNot stated

Ad-freeYesYesPaid SaaS; not ad-supported

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

Support channelsEmail + in-app assistantsupport@romeschool.appUnverified

Training / docsIn-app guidanceHelp content still being built outYesExtensive learn/guides content library

Guided onboardingYesSetup wizard + dashboard checklistUnverified

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.

RomeschoolNuma School

Billing modelMonthly / yearly / per-studentYearly, per studentCurriculum graduated per student; planner, logbook & records free for every familyAnnual registration$199 for the 2026–27 school year; renews July 1

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$199/yr2026–27 annual registration

Whole-family priceUnlimited childrenGraduated per studentFounders: $999 first, $499 second, $499 each additional — planner free for all$199/yrAll students in a household under one registration

Co-op / group pricingNot publishedNo separate co-op SKU yetUnverified

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 closeslifetime-locked (claimed)'Lock in lowest price for life' — same playbook as Romeschool

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 laterYes (claimed)Founding-family, locked-for-life — claimed

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

The whole homeschool, in one place.

Get started →

Feature and price comparisons reflect publicly available information as of 2026-07-12. Competitors' offerings change; verify current details on their sites. Product names are used for identification only and imply no affiliation or endorsement.