One is a planner for the parent running the school. The other is built for the student doing the work. Most families who compare them are asking which half they're short on.
Homeschool Planet is a full homeschool planner: lesson plans, schedules, records for several students, and a long track record with homeschool families. If planning the year is the job, it's built for that and we are not.
StudyQuest360 is the student's side of the same house. You enter the lesson or assignment, it becomes a quest, seven games draw their questions from it, an AI helper explains what isn't landing, and finishing earns game time. Hours, grades, and a homeschool transcript come along with it.
Enter the lesson, unit, or assignment and it becomes a quest. Seven games draw their questions from it, so a kid grinding a level is reviewing your spelling list or your biology unit. That is the part a planner never touches: getting the work done.
School years, courses, hours logged, guardian-certified grades, an attendance summary, and a printable transcript, all on the free tier with a linked account. Built from the same courses the quests roll up into.
No curriculum ships with it and none is pushed on you. You choose what gets taught; the app turns it into practice, feedback, and rewards. Give it nothing and it has nothing to work with, which is the honest tradeoff.
Lock the games during your school block, pin which game is available, and block topics the AI Oracle will not touch. Useful when the same machine is both the classroom and the arcade.
We don't plan lessons, generate schedules, or reshuffle a week when Tuesday goes sideways. We don't ship curriculum and we don't integrate with anyone's. It's up to three students on one account, no more. And it will not tell you whether your state's requirements are met; it keeps the records and you read them.
If your problem is planning the year, a planner is the right tool. The homeschool page is where we describe what we do in full, planner vocabulary included.
Not in the Homeschool Planet sense. It doesn't plan lessons or build schedules. It's closer to a homeschool tracker and student app: assignments become quests, hours and grades get logged, and a transcript comes out the other end.
Yes, and that's the setup we'd suggest for a family that already plans in a planner. Plan the year there, then enter each day's lesson here so the games and the reward loop run on it. They don't sync, so it's a copy and paste, not an integration.
Yes: school years, courses, hours logged, guardian-certified grades, an attendance summary, and a printable transcript, free with a linked account. It won't judge them against your state's rules. The full walkthrough is on the transcript page.
Up to three on one Premium subscription at $5 a month, or the free tier with daily caps. The pricing page has the details. For Homeschool Planet's plans and student limits, check their site.
No account and no card to start. Let a student play as a guest first, and set up the records side only if the games hold their attention.
Other comparisons: vs Prodigy, vs myHomework, and ClassDojo and IXL alternatives.