COTABLE VS HOMESCHOOL PLANET
Homeschool Planet is an established family scheduler with a marketplace of lesson plans. Cotable comes from the other direction: a shared table where a co-op plans together, pasted curriculum keeps exact source wording, and AI drafts what does not exist yet.
| What matters | Homeschool Planet | Cotable |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | One household: the family calendar, each kid's daily assignments, chores and appointments alongside school. | Shared co-op plans, a teacher for each subject, family viewing access, and every parent's personal workspace beside it. |
| Where plans come from | A marketplace of prebuilt lesson plans for popular curricula, or manual entry into the scheduler. | Bring your own curriculum text or PDF, review the proposed lessons, and draft the rest with your approval. |
| Planning space | Calendar and list views — structured, schedule-first. | The same structured Year/Week views, plus an infinite canvas per lesson for the messy thinking that precedes the schedule. |
| AI help | Not the product's center of gravity. | Central: drafting weeks, revising sections, grade-calibrated worksheets and coloring pages, honest propose-then-accept changes. |
| Records | Attendance and grades with reporting — a genuine strength, refined over years. | Days-and-hours ledger with suggested targets for all 50 states, attendance from mark-taught, printable logs and AI-drafted, teacher-owned progress reports. |
| Price | Paid subscription (with a trial), plus marketplace plans purchased separately. | Free during the private beta (invite-only). After that, $9/mo for one family or a flat yearly rate per co-op. |
Homeschool Planet's marketplace is real leverage if you teach a popular boxed curriculum: buy the plan, and your daily assignments appear. But co-op teaching rarely survives contact with a boxed plan. You adapt, merge grade bands, swap week 6 for the tide-pool trip. Cotable assumes the plan is yours: import what you wrote, review it as lessons, and ask AI to help draft what does not exist yet.
This is the fork in the road. If your homeschool is one household, Homeschool Planet's years of family-scheduler refinement are worth real money. The moment planning becomes collaborative — a director, four teacher-parents, twelve member families — you need roles, per-subject ownership, join codes, and one shared semester everyone reads. That's the shape Cotable is built as, not a feature bolted on.
THE HONEST PART
CHOOSE HOMESCHOOL PLANET
Homeschool Planet earns its subscription when:
CHOOSE COTABLE
Cotable is the better fit when:
SWITCHING
Bring the curriculum itself: paste or upload the documents behind your current schedule and Cotable structures them into dated lessons, for review. Schedules are not imported directly. You will set meeting days and breaks during setup, and the term dates itself. Records start fresh from your first mark-taught lesson (with manual entries for anything you want to carry).
COMMON QUESTIONS
During Cotable's private beta, yes. It is free and invite-only. Homeschool Planet is a paid subscription with marketplace plans sold separately. Beta families will hear before Cotable pricing changes.
No marketplace. Bring your own curriculum text or PDF for review, or ask Cotable to help draft a plan for your grade band and schedule.
Yes — every account gets a personal workspace in family voice, with This Week, records for all 50 states, worksheets, and Cotie. Co-op features simply wait until you need them.
OTHER COMPARISONS
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Paste last semester's doc and judge it yourself. Free and invite-only during the beta.