LittleActivity vs Homeschool Planet
A homeschool planner and record keeper that wraps around whatever curriculum you already use.
Last updated: 23 August 2026
Homeschool Planet is a planner, not a curriculum, and it is a good one — flexible enough to schedule physical books, co-op classes and anything else. Its records reflect ticked boxes, because it cannot see the work. LittleActivity has the curriculum inside the plan, so the schedule fills itself and the records derive from work actually done.
Which one is right for you
Choose Homeschool Planet if
A family teaching from physical books and multiple providers, who need one calendar over the top of all of it.
Choose LittleActivity if
A family who would rather the curriculum and the planner were the same thing.
What each one actually is
What is Homeschool Planet?
Also known as: HomeschoolPlanet, homeschoolplanet.com, Homeschool Buyers Club planner
Homeschool Planet is a homeschool planner and record keeper that wraps around whatever curriculum you already use.
Related: Homeschool curriculum and records · K-12 education · Homeschool resources
What is LittleActivity?
Also known as: Little Activity, littleactivity.com
LittleActivity is a free educational platform for children from Pre-K to Grade 10, combining sequenced lessons in ten subjects, thousands of printable worksheets, games, and a homeschool system whose attendance, report cards, portfolio and transcript build themselves from the work a child actually completes.
Related: Homeschool curriculum · Printable worksheets · K-12 education · Common Core Standards
Homeschool Planet vs LittleActivity, feature by feature
Twenty-four features in five groups. A dash means we have not established that row from their own public pages — it is not a “no”, and we would rather show the gap than guess at it.
Getting started and cost
What it takes to see the thing before you pay for it.
| Feature | Homeschool Planet | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Usable free, with no accountCan a parent open it and use real content without signing up? | No | Yes |
| Card required to startA card taken up front turns a trial into an opt-out subscription. | Not established | No |
| Price published on their own siteA price you have to reach checkout to see is a price you cannot compare. | No | Yes |
| Charged per childDecides whether a second or third child doubles the bill. | No | No |
| Adverts shown to childrenIncluding house ads and upsell interstitials mid-activity. | No | No |
What it covers
How far it goes before your child ages out of it.
| Feature | Homeschool Planet | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Grade rangeThe span the vendor claims on its own site. | Any — it plans whatever you use | Pre-K to Grade 10 |
| SubjectsWhat is actually taught, not what is mentioned. | None of its own; it schedules yours | Maths, reading, writing, science, social studies, art, music, coding, languages, critical thinking, money |
| Real Pre-K contentActivities a child who cannot yet read can do alone. | Whatever you schedule | Yes |
| Grade 6 and aboveThe point most early-learning products stop. | Whatever you schedule | Yes |
| Standards alignment publishedMatters for reporting in most US states. | No | Yes |
How it teaches
Whether it decides what happens today, or hands you a catalogue.
| Feature | Homeschool Planet | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Plans the school day for youThe difference between a curriculum and a content library. | You build the plan; it holds it | Yes |
| Sequenced, not browse-it-yourselfLessons that build on each other in a fixed order. | No | Yes |
| Per-subject placementA child ahead in reading and behind in maths is the normal case. | No | Yes |
| Video instructionA person explaining, rather than a screen of practice items. | No | No |
| Live human teachingScheduled classes with a real teacher. | No | No |
Off the screen
What is left on the days the tablet is not the answer.
| Feature | Homeschool Planet | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Printable worksheetsReal PDFs, not a web page you send to a printer. | No | 5,947 free PDFs |
| Off-screen work for every school dayAn authored task per day, not an occasional printable. | No | 2,160 authored days |
| Printable wall chartsReference material for the wall behind the desk. | No | 600 wall charts |
| A full day can run on paperFor a broken tablet, a car journey, or a screen-time limit. | Printed schedules | Yes |
Records and classroom
The paperwork, and whether it writes itself.
| Feature | Homeschool Planet | LittleActivity |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance logRequired by law in a number of US states. | Yes | Yes |
| Report cardsGenerated from work done, not typed by a parent. | Yes | Yes |
| Portfolio of workFor states that require an annual review. | Not established | Yes |
| High-school transcriptThe document a college admissions office asks for. | Yes | Yes |
| Run a class with no student accountsNo roster upload, no email address per child. | No | Yes |
What Homeschool Planet does better, and what we do instead
Homeschool Planet against LittleActivity
Pros
- A more flexible manual planner, if you want to lay out the year by hand
- Works with any curriculum, including physical books and co-op classes we know nothing about
- Lesson plans purchasable for many popular published curricula, dropped straight into the calendar
- Handles a family with several children on entirely different programmes
- Grade and attendance tracking that spans providers, which a single-curriculum product cannot
Cons
- There is curriculum inside the plan, so the schedule fills itself
- Records derive from work actually done rather than from ticked boxes
- Thousands of printables, wall charts and an off-screen task for each school day
- Games and taught lessons in every subject, at no cost for the core
- Per-subject placement built in rather than decided by the parent
The left column is what Homeschool Planet is genuinely better at. The right column is not a list of their faults — it is what we do that they do not attempt. A product is allowed to not do something.
Pricing
We have not been able to read Homeschool Planet’s current pricing from their live pages, so we are not going to quote it — see their own page. Ours is on our pricing page, before you sign up for anything.
Stay with Homeschool Planet if…
You teach from physical books and want a planner that wraps around them. We cannot schedule a book we cannot see.
Move to LittleActivity if…
You are paying for a planner, a curriculum and a records spreadsheet separately, and none of them talks to the others.
The one structural difference
Most families run a content product, a separate planner, and a spreadsheet for records, and nothing in that stack is the system of record. LittleActivity is one system: the same work that teaches your child produces the attendance, the report card, the portfolio and the transcript, and every school day has an authored off-screen task so a broken tablet does not end the day.
In numbers: 5,947 free printable PDFs and 2,160 authored off-screen school days, both counted from the catalogues themselves and checked in our build rather than written by hand.
How this comparison was made
- Their claims are theirs. Grade range, subjects and product shape are taken from what Homeschool Planet says about itself on its own public pages, linked above.
- Prices are gated. A price appears only with the date a person read it on the vendor’s own page. Most pricing pages in this market render client-side and cannot be checked automatically, so most of these comparisons quote no price at all rather than repeat one that may be a year old.
- Our numbers are generated. Printable, poster and school-day counts come from the catalogues they describe and are verified in our build, so a marketing round number cannot creep in.
- A dash is not a cross. Where we have not established a row, the table shows a dash. We do not score a competitor down for something we did not check.
- We are not neutral. This page is written by one of the two products. That is why it leads with what Homeschool Planet does better and names who should stay with it — judge the page on whether those sections are real.
LittleActivity vs Homeschool Planet: common questions
Does LittleActivity replace a homeschool planner?
For families using our curriculum, yes — the plan is generated across six strands and the records come from the work done, so there is nothing to schedule by hand. For a family teaching mostly from physical books, a planner like Homeschool Planet is still the better fit, because we cannot schedule what we cannot see.
Can Homeschool Planet schedule LittleActivity?
It can schedule anything you enter manually, so yes in that sense. Whether that is worth doing depends on whether you are also using other providers — if LittleActivity is the whole programme, the second calendar is duplicated work.
Whose records would a state reviewer accept?
Both produce attendance and grades in a form reviewers accept. The difference is provenance: Homeschool Planet records what you tell it happened, while ours records what was actually completed in the system. If you teach from books, only the first is possible.
How much does Homeschool Planet cost?
We could not read a current price from their live pages, so we do not quote one — see their own site. Ours is published on our pricing page, and the core site is free with no account.
Should I choose LittleActivity or Homeschool Planet?
Choose Homeschool Planet if: A family teaching from physical books and multiple providers, who need one calendar over the top of all of it. Choose LittleActivity if: A family who would rather the curriculum and the planner were the same thing. Both are real answers — the deciding question is usually whether you want one subject or one tool done well, or the whole school day planned, printed and recorded.
How much does Homeschool Planet cost compared with LittleActivity?
We have not been able to read Homeschool Planet's current pricing from their live pages and check it, so we do not quote a figure — see their own site for it. LittleActivity's price is published on our pricing page before you sign up, it is one family price rather than a charge per child, and the games, printables and lessons are free with no account.
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