Lesson Maker Pro vs Diffit

We built the same reading lesson in both

One text, one grade, on October 7, 2026. Every image is a real screenshot, cropped but not retouched; click one to see it full size.

1. 01The reading

   

   Generated with the lesson: the full speech as Lincoln wrote it, with numbered paragraphs and margin lines for annotation.

   

   Diffit’s first page: a historical-context box, the full speech beside a portrait of Lincoln, and the source cited.

   Both put the real text in front of students. Diffit’s page is the more polished of the two.

2. 02The student work

   

   The lesson’s response page: one paragraph on the speech’s central idea, with evidence from two parts of it, then peer feedback. An exit ticket goes with it.

   

   The next pages: key terms, vocabulary in context, a rhetorical-devices table, two analysis questions, five evidence questions, and an answer key.

   Diffit gives students more practice on the page. Ours is one piece of writing that the lesson builds toward.

3. 03The plan

   

   A 50-minute lesson with a timed sequence, from reading and tracing the speech to writing an interpretation and an exit ticket. Slides and a teacher guide came with it.

   No teacher plan. Diffit made the student pages; timing, sequence, and what the teacher does are left to you.

   Asked for a reading lesson, Diffit produced student pages and an answer key. There was no timing, sequence, slides, or teacher guide.

   This is the real difference. Diffit gets the text ready for students; Lesson Maker Pro plans the class around it.

Feature by feature

Shaded cell: the stronger offering, in our judgment. Unshaded rows are a wash or a different kind of thing.

		Diffit
Lesson plan	A timed, ready-to-teach plan aligned to your standard	None; it makes the student pages, and timing, sequence, and teacher moves are left to you †
Slide decks	Generated with every lesson, with images and speaker notes; PowerPoint, PDF, or Google Slides	Front of Room Slides with images and speaker notes (added August 2026)
Printable materials	Generated with every lesson: the worksheets, handouts, and assessments it calls for, plus a teacher guide	Polished student pages from a topic or your own text, with an answer key †
Materials match the lesson	Same scenario, vocabulary, and numbers across the plan, slides, and printables, because they come from one request	The pages in a resource are all built on the same reading †
AI assistant	One assistant that keeps your lesson in context, remembers past work, learns how you teach, and edits the lesson and its materials	A chat to refine and adapt the resource in front of you
Weekly planner	A planning board on your bell schedule; push lessons forward when a day is lost
Standards	420,000+ browsable, 6,600+ plain-language guides; official text in context when the lesson is written	Align a resource to standards you choose
Student-facing activities	Gamified lesson worlds and escape rooms; join code, no accounts, no student data stored	No student app; students get work through Google Classroom, Forms, or print
Exports	PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, Google Slides, Classroom, Forms	PDF on the free plan; Google, Microsoft, and Forms exports on Premium
One text at several reading levels	Adapt any printable to a reading level from K to 12, as a new copy	Up to four reading levels or languages from a single request
Languages	Supports for multilingual learners added to any printable	Readings and activities in dozens of languages
Start from your own material	Attach a PDF, Word file, or image, or import a link, in the Teaching Assistant	Start from a topic, pasted text, link, or image
School plans	School and district plans available	Flat-rate school licenses with an admin dashboard and training

Pricing

Free: 5 lesson plans, 1 unit plan, 10 materials, and 25 assistant messages every month. Your first lesson needs no account and no credit card.

Pro, $9.99/month: everything included, no locked tools. School and district plans available.

Diffit

Free: create, print, and download PDFs; what you made in the last 90 days stays available.

Premium: $14.99/month, or $149.99/year, adding Google, Microsoft, and Forms exports and premade organizers. School licenses priced by enrollment.

Common questions

Is Lesson Maker Pro a good Diffit alternative?

It depends on the job. If you need one text at several reading levels or in another language, quickly, Diffit is built for exactly that. If you want the lesson around the reading, with a timed plan, slides, printables, an assessment, and a teacher guide that all use the same text and vocabulary, Lesson Maker Pro does that in one request. Many teachers could use both.

Can Lesson Maker Pro change a reading level?

Yes. Adapt on any worksheet, handout, assessment, notes page, or organizer makes a new copy at a reading level from kindergarten to grade 12, or adds supports for multilingual learners. It works one version at a time; Diffit returns up to four levels or languages from one request.

Which costs less?

Lesson Maker Pro Pro is $9.99 a month; Diffit Premium is $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year. Both have free plans: Diffit's free plan prints and downloads PDFs and keeps what you made in the last 90 days, and Lesson Maker Pro's includes 5 full lessons a month with their slides and materials.