Almanack

Almanack is a lesson-planning and classroom-resource platform for educators adapting curriculum across subjects, grade levels, and languages. It suits teachers who need differentiated materials and standards-aligned assessments alongside planning. Its free plan covers a useful range of core resources, while unlimited generation, collaboration, and school integrations require higher plans.

Overview

Almanack brings lesson adaptation, learner differentiation, and assessment creation into a curriculum-focused workflow. Teachers can change a lesson’s reading level, topic, content, or pace without losing the structure of its unit. That is a practical fit for adapting existing plans while keeping a class working toward common standards, rather than rebuilding each lesson from scratch.

Its assessment tools produce standards-aligned work mapped to letter grades and curriculum units, including gradebook-ready artifacts. The combination makes Almanack more compelling for educators planning a sequence of instruction than for someone seeking only a standalone worksheet generator.

Key features

Adaptation and differentiation

Almanack creates below-grade, above-grade, ELL, and IEP versions aligned to the same standards. This gives teachers a way to vary access to material without abandoning shared learning goals. The Pro plan is the first plan that includes differentiation, so free users do not get the platform’s most distinctive adaptation capability.

Planning, assessments, and exports

The free tier includes standards-aligned lesson planning, curriculum design, long-range planning, a lesson and unit planner, slides, basic worksheets and activities, quizzes and assessments, educational games, and custom video recommendations. Pro adds unlimited resource generation and adaptation, custom report card comments, and export to Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF. The broader resource set can serve day-to-day preparation; the export formats make it easier to take materials into familiar presentation and document tools.

Classroom workflow and security

Almanack’s homepage lists integrations with Google Classroom, Google Forms, Kahoot, GimKit, Blooket, Wayground, Quizlet, Google Slides, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Word, and PDF. Google Classroom can import courses, publish lessons as assignments, and display classwork in Almanack course pages. Schools and districts can use Google, Microsoft Entra ID, Clever, or ClassLink sign-in, depending on district configuration.

The security policy describes TLS 1.2+ encryption in transit, AES-256 encryption at rest, access controls, and least-privilege access. It says student data is stored in the United States or approved territories including Canada, the EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand, and that practices align with FERPA, PIPEDA, applicable GDPR principles, NIST CSF, CIS Top 20, and SDPC NDPA Standard 1.0. Almanack also offers an API for some services, currently Almanack.

Pricing

Free

free. This plan includes the core planning tools, slides, basic worksheets and activities, quizzes and assessments, games, and video recommendations. It is the sensible starting point for an individual teacher who can work without differentiation, unlimited generation, or broader collaboration.

Pro

Custom pricing. Pro adds unlimited resource generation and adaptation, differentiation, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and PDF export, custom report card comments, tool integrations, and limited collaborators. A 2-week free trial is included. It is the relevant upgrade for teachers who need differentiated versions or expect regular, high-volume resource generation; the collaborator cap makes it less suited to teams sharing work extensively.

Small Teams and Schools/Districts

Small Teams: custom pricing. It includes all Pro features, unlimited collaborators, shared curriculum adaptation libraries, and team planning tools. It is designed for teams that need shared planning rather than Pro’s limited collaboration.

Schools/Districts: custom pricing. It includes all Small Teams features plus SSO and rostering, a curriculum coverage dashboard, priority support, and LMS integration. These additions are aimed at institution-wide administration and deployment, rather than a solo educator’s workflow. The free plan has no stated usage cap in its listed features; Pro’s 2-week trial is the stated trial term.

Platforms

Almanack is available on web, and its terms describe an API for some Almanack services. The listed school sign-in options and Google Classroom workflow are useful for schools already using those systems, though sign-in options depend on district configuration.

Who it's for

Almanack is best for teachers who need to adapt curriculum lessons for varied reading levels and learning needs while maintaining common standards, and for teams or schools that want shared planning or centralized curriculum visibility. It is less suitable for an individual who needs differentiation on a free plan, or for a group that needs unlimited collaboration without moving beyond Pro.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Lesson changes preserve unit structure, making adaptation more useful for curriculum continuity than a collection of disconnected materials.
• Pros: Below-grade, above-grade, ELL, and IEP versions stay aligned to the same standards, supporting varied learners within a shared instructional plan.
• Pros: Gradebook-ready assessments and Google Classroom publishing connect planning to classroom assignment workflows.
• Cons: Differentiation and unlimited generation are reserved for Pro, limiting the free tier’s value for teachers whose main need is adapting materials.
• Cons: Pro has limited collaborators; teams needing shared libraries and unlimited collaborators must move to Small Teams.
• Cons: Pro, Small Teams, and Schools/Districts use custom pricing, so educators cannot compare those costs directly from the plan terms.

Alternatives

For a broader comparison, see AI Lesson Plan Generators. Consider Make My Lesson if you want a free plan capped at 5 generations or a $9.99 a month plan with 30 generations. Aila is a free web option, with fair-use limits potentially applying to excessive use and request limits on lessons and resources.

Brisk Teaching may fit teachers who want 20+ tools on a free plan, or districts considering its custom-priced Intelligence plan. Common Planner is worth considering for free daily, weekly, and monthly lesson planning and posting up to 50 lessons to Google Classroom. Eduaide offers a free tier with generation limits and limited input context, and a Pro plan at $49.99 a year.

Education Copilot offers a free plan with three core AI templates and a Pro plan at $9 a month. GradeAid is an alternative for up to five free resources a week, with PDF and Word export; its Pro plan is $8.99 a month. GradeWithAI may suit readers focused on automated submission grading and AI detection, with unlimited AI grading requests on its $20 a month Pro plan.

Verdict

Choose Almanack if you are an educator who needs curriculum-preserving lesson adaptation, differentiated versions, and aligned assessment in one planning platform. Its clearest strength is keeping varied learner materials tied to common standards and units. Look elsewhere if you need those adaptation tools at no cost or want to know the full team or school price before engaging with sales.