COTABLE VS HOMESCHOOL PLANET
Homeschool Planet is a respected veteran: a family scheduler with years of refinement and a marketplace of ready-made lesson plans. Cotable comes from the other direction — a shared table where a whole co-op plans together, your own curriculum arrives verbatim, and AI drafts what doesn't exist yet.
| What matters | Homeschool Planet | Cotable |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | One household: the family calendar, each kid's daily assignments, chores and appointments alongside school. | The co-op as a first-class thing — shared plans, per-subject teachers, member families — with 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. | Your own documents, imported verbatim; a year drafted from the co-op's topic schedule; lessons written and revised by Cotie under 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). |
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, keep every word, and let AI draft only what doesn't exist yet — calibrated by a library of ~85 named curricula it knows about without copying from.
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, wording intact. Schedules aren't imported directly — you'll 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's free, invite-only. Homeschool Planet is a paid subscription with marketplace plans sold separately. When Cotable pricing arrives, beta families hear first.
No marketplace. Cotable imports the plan you already have (kept verbatim) or drafts one with AI calibrated to your grade band and schedule — steered by a library of ~85 named curricula without reproducing their content.
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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The fastest comparison is pasting last semester's doc into Cotable and watching it become a semester again.