TL;DR
Homeschool Planet is a curriculum-integrated online planner with a deep library of pre-built lesson plans — over 3,100 plans for popular homeschool curricula. If you're following a published curriculum closely, Planet's schedule library saves you hours of upfront planning work. Homeschool Fox is a tracking-first product. It doesn't ship curriculum plans, but it's built around AI-assisted activity logging, state-formatted compliance documents, and a college-ready transcript add-on. The two products serve different parts of the homeschool day.
Where Homeschool Planet shines
Homeschool Planet's biggest moat is its catalog. By their count, the platform offers over 3,100 pre-built lesson plans — drop them onto your calendar, drag to reschedule, and check assignments off as your student completes them. For families running a published curriculum, that schedule library is a serious time saver.
Specific strengths:
- Curriculum lesson plans. 3,100+ pre-built schedules for popular curricula. If you've ever opened a 600-page curriculum guide and wished it were a draggable, shareable calendar, Homeschool Planet is what you wanted.
- Calendar-first interface. Day, week, and month views are well-designed and immediately familiar to anyone who's used a school planner.
- Automatic assignment rescheduling. Miss a day? The platform shifts assignments forward automatically rather than leaving you to drag every item.
- 30-day free trial, no credit card. A long trial window is generous and lets you test the product through a full month of homeschool work.
- Mobile app. A dedicated mobile app rather than just a responsive web view.
- Affordable annual pricing. $84.95/year with the auto-pay annual plan beats most homeschool planners on price.
If your homeschool runs on a published curriculum and your daily question is "what does my student need to do today?", Homeschool Planet answers that directly.
How Homeschool Fox is different
Homeschool Fox starts from the other end of the homeschool day: the end. We don't ask "what should they do today?" — we ask "what did they actually do?" And we build the rest of the workflow (compliance reports, transcripts, attendance, progress tracking) from those records.
That difference shows up everywhere:
- AI activity logging. Tell the app what you did in plain English ("Saxon Math 4 lesson 47, then read aloud Little House on the Prairie for thirty minutes, then nature walk in the backyard"). Homeschool Fox parses it into three activities with the right subjects, durations, and student attribution. No clicking through a lesson list.
- Phone-first design. The full workflow (logging, attendance, reports) is built for phone use. The activity composer expects to be tapped at, not clicked at.
- State-formatted compliance documents. Homeschool Fox knows what New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, and the other 47 jurisdictions actually expect on compliance paperwork. The reports come out formatted to those specs.
- Premium transcript bundle. The $29 add-on includes AI-drafted course descriptions, a school profile, and a counselor narrative — documents selective-college admissions readers expect.
- Family flat pricing. $99/year covers every student. No per-student tier.
- Voice transcription. Dictate what you did when typing isn't appealing.
The trade-off, honestly, is that Homeschool Fox doesn't ship curriculum lesson plans. We don't have a Sonlight schedule library or a Math-U-See calendar. If a pre-built curriculum schedule is core to how you stay on track, Homeschool Planet covers that gap better than we do.
Pricing
Homeschool Planet is $9.95/month or $84.95/year (a "best value" annual rate). The 30-day free trial doesn't require a credit card.
Homeschool Fox is $12/month or $99/year — flat, whole family, no per-student tier. The premium college transcript add-on is $29 one-time, on top of the subscription. The free trial is 14 days, also no credit card.
The annual prices are close ($84.95 vs $99) and the products serve different parts of the homeschool workflow, so price isn't usually the deciding factor.
Using both
Some families layer the two products: Homeschool Planet for the curriculum schedule (especially when following something like My Father's World tightly), and Homeschool Fox for daily tracking, state compliance, and the year-end transcript. It's not the cheapest setup, but the strengths overlap surprisingly little.
Who should pick which
Pick Homeschool Planet if you:
- Use a published curriculum and want pre-built schedules from a 3,100+ plan library
- Run a calendar-driven planning model — assignments per day, drag to reschedule
- Don't need formal state-specific compliance formatting
- Value the longer 30-day free trial to evaluate the workflow
Pick Homeschool Fox if you:
- Want phone-first logging with AI parsing
- Live in a strict-state jurisdiction where formatted compliance documents matter
- Track activities as they happen rather than planning lessons in advance
- Plan to apply to selective colleges and want bundled course descriptions and school profile alongside the transcript
The right answer depends on whether your day is driven by what's planned (Planet) or what happened (Fox).