Top 8 teacher planners and planner apps (2026-2027)

• Best for a free online plan book
• Free plan, paid upgrades

An online lesson planner (not paper) that works on a computer, tablet or phone. The free plan covers unlimited weekly plans, A/B day and rotation schedules and basic editing. Premium adds sharing, collaboration, file attachments, standards tagging and Word and PDF export.

The free part: Write and print lesson plans, with unlimited weekly plans and A/B day and rotation schedules.

Premium is $30 a year and does not renew automatically; schools buying several accounts pay less per teacher, starting at $27 (as of 2026-10-27). The main site mentions a 14-day Premium trial with no credit card.

Watch for Sharing and standards tagging are Premium features, so the free plan is a private plan book.

Visit PlanbookEdu ↗  Facts read on the maker’s page.

• Best for planning units with a team
• Free plan, paid upgrades

An online planner (not paper) for unit and lesson plans with standards tracking. Plans can be dragged into place, pushed forward one click to keep pacing, shared with colleagues and copied into a new year. A team can co-plan in one shared planbook, and AI help is built in.

The free part: The teacher plan, CP Basic, is advertised as free. Schools request a demo, and admins can start a 30-day free trial.

No prices are listed for school plans on the page we read.

Watch for The page does not say what CP Basic leaves out, so check that before relying on it.

Visit Common Planner ↗

• Best for your own template, no new tool
• Price varies

A word processor in the browser that offers templates, for teachers who would rather build their own lesson plan page than learn a planner. The page says anyone with a Google Account can create in Docs.

The page we read does not state a price; some features, such as joining a Meet call from a document, are only on Google Workspace plans.

Watch for It is a blank page, not a planner, so you build and maintain the layout yourself.

Visit Google Docs ↗

• Best for a low-priced paper plan book
• Paid

A printed lesson plan book with space for up to 40 weeks of daily lesson plans in 112 pages. It also has student roster sheets, substitute teacher information, 12 large monthly planning calendar spreads and stickers. Teacher Created Resources sells other lesson planners in different designs.

$18.99 (as of 2026-10-27).

Watch for The page does not say whether the pages are dated, so you fill in your own dates, and it covers 40 weeks rather than a full year.

Visit Oh Happy Day Lesson Planner (Teacher Created Resources) ↗

• Best for a flexible paper planner you date yourself
• Paid

A spiral-bound paper planner of 128 pages with undated yearly goal planning, monthly calendars and weekly lesson plans. It also includes communication logs, checklist pages, contact pages, substitute information and a notes section, plus 116 stickers.

$17.99 (as of 2026-10-27).

Watch for The page says the yearly goal planning is undated and does not say whether the monthly and weekly pages are dated, and it does not list a size.

Visit Happy Place Teacher Planner (Carson Dellosa) ↗

• Best for a personalized dated paper planner
• Paid

A dated paper planner covering July 2026 to June 2027 at 8 by 10 inches, with a lay-flat softbound binding and a vegan leather cover. It has dated monthly spreads, horizontal weekly spreads, bell schedule pages, a communication log and 16 checklist pages. The cover can be personalized with your own photos or Erin Condren art.

Listed at $17.75, marked down from $35.50 (as of 2026-10-27). Sale prices change.

Watch for It is dated to one school year, and the price we saw was a markdown from the regular price.

Visit Legacy 8x10 Softbound Teacher Lesson Planner (Erin Condren) ↗

• Best for a tabbed, dated paper planner
• Paid

A softcover paper planner dated August 2026 to July 2027, with 12 dated monthly spreads and 52 Monday to Friday weekly lesson planning spreads. It has tabbed sections for class information, student checklists and weekly plans, an inside pocket and three sticker pages. The collection page also lists digital teacher planners for iPad.

The Floral Stripe edition was listed at $20.00, marked down from $40.00 (as of 2026-10-27).

Watch for The Floral Stripe page showed the planner as unavailable when we read it, so check stock before planning around it.

Visit Simplified Teacher Planner (Emily Ley) ↗  Facts read on the maker’s page.

• Best for a fully customized paper layout
• Paid

Customizable paper planners sorted by grade band: preschool and kindergarten, elementary, middle and high school, and homeschool. The Teacher 1 layout is a vertical weekly format and Teacher 2 is horizontal with a small checklist box under each weekday. Each planner includes a class section for its grade range and checklist pages, and a separate gradebook is sold.

Pricing on the maker's site; it changes with the options you choose.

Watch for The shop pages did not load fully for us, so we could not confirm a current price; check the live page.

Visit Plum Paper teacher planners ↗