HomeTrail Plus
Go all in on your child’s education.
Bring the curriculum you already chose and run the whole year from one calm place. Plan weeks your family can actually follow, keep attendance and records current with a quick text, and end up with the grades, transcripts, and portfolio that prove it all.
Text in. Portfolio out.
Text a learning moment, a question, or a quick update. TrailGuide handles logging, planning, attendance, reports, Nest, and more across HomeTrail, so you rarely need to open the app. New capabilities land regularly.
- Log sessions and attendance by text
- Snap a photo of finished work to get feedback and log it
- Plan, check schedules, and ask what’s next
- Send articles and activities to Nest
Independent learning, no junk.
Nest is a distraction-free app where your child sees only the learning packs you approve. Weather, reading, word searches, AI-generated activities, lessons. No feed, no ads, no endless scroll.
- Curated “Packs” per kid
- Parent-approved content only
- Configurable per age & level
- Updated daily with new work
TrailGuide
HomeTrail Plus
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Maya just finished her fractions worksheet
She nailed equivalent fractions. Number 7 tripped her up: comparing unlike denominators. Want a quick practice activity for tomorrow?
Text a photo of finished work. Get thoughtful feedback. Not an official grade.
The perfect teacher is you.
Compass reviews finished work with warm, specific feedback, not official grades. It also powers tailored Nest worksheets, with full hands-on lesson prep rolling out.
- Text a photo, get thoughtful feedback
- Nest worksheets reviewed automatically
- Progress logged to their portfolio
- Hands-on lesson prep rolling out
Plus the full HomeTrail app for your planner, reports, grading, and Journey on web and mobile.
From curriculum to a real week
Make the plan fit the week you actually have
HomeTrail Plus wraps planning, daily follow-through, student work, and records around the curriculum and commitments your family already has.
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Bring what you already use
Put open-and-go curriculum in the same planner as co-op, appointments, activities, and family learning.
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Build a doable week
Plan lessons, send focused work to Nest, and add generated packs and worksheets where a child needs practice.
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Adjust what slipped
Tell TrailGuide what was unfinished and ask it to move the specific session you choose. It never reschedules the rest automatically.
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Close the loop
Review work with Compass, record grades, build transcripts, and keep the evidence tied to the plan.
Compass is different
Not just AI lesson ideas.
Compass does not guess what your child needs next. It reads finished work, plans from learner state and recent feedback, and hands you clear next steps while your child still learns from you.
Reviews the work
Text a photo of finished work. Get warm, specific feedback, not an official grade.
Maps the skill
Compass starts from a progression, not a blank prompt.
Reads the moment
It uses recent work, struggles, interests, and parent feedback.
Preps the lesson
Hands-on lesson prep is coming to Compass: what to teach, what to say, and why that step fits.
The goal is confidence without outsourcing the relationship: Compass reviews work and preps next steps, your child still learns from you. When you ask for follow-up practice, HomeTrail can generate it from that finished work and Compass feedback instead of pulling a generic worksheet from a bank.
Everything included
Everything you need to thrive
Plus brings planning, student work, grading, collaboration, records, and support together in the full HomeTrail app on web and mobile.
- The full HomeTrail app
- Planner, session logs, subject reports, grading, and the Journey timeline. Web and mobile, synced everywhere. It’s the HomeTrail your friends already use, and you get all of it.
- Open-and-go packs & worksheets
- Generate focused practice, printable worksheets, quizzes, reading prompts, and other packs that can appear in Nest or fit alongside the curriculum you already use.
- Real grades & transcripts
- Record grades, calculate weighted GPAs, create progress reports, and build downloadable transcripts for co-ops, evaluators, or applications.
- Bring the whole family
- Up to 5 family admins means both parents, or a co-teaching grandparent, can plan, log, and see the same picture. No more “who logged what” texting.
- Tutors & co-op teachers
- Invite tutors, co-op leaders, or outside teachers with controlled access to just the students they work with. Their notes and work show up in your records automatically.
- HomeTrail Nest
- Give students a focused app experience for parent-approved learning packs and videos. Videos play without ads, comments, or algorithmic autoplay, and there is no endless feed.
- Founder-level support
- When you hit a snag, you’re not emailing a ticket queue. You’re talking directly to Laura or Mick, the people who built this, with priority response.
New: turn a child’s idea into a custom printable coloring page they can color in Nest or print on its own full Letter page.
Want just the core planner and portfolio tools? You can also start with HomeTrail Free.
What changes
It’s not supposed to feel this hard.
Less noise. More confidence. A calmer way to plan, teach, and keep records.
Less busywork
Log the day once and you’re done. Your planner, records, and reports stay up to date on their own.
You stay in charge
There is no AI “teacher” in the room. You’re the guide. The tools do prep and logistics behind the scenes.
A clear record
Journals, plans, and progress in one system so you can see momentum, not just chaos.
From the founders
Our Story
When my husband and I first built HomeTrail, it was just for our family. We were deep in our homeschooling journey and needed one place to track attendance, log the books we read, and capture our kids’ masterpieces. We had no idea how many other families were craving the same thing. The software landscape has shifted a lot since then, and we’ve grown with it. Plus is where that work lives now, and it’s where we’re putting in our best work.
Using the tools, sharing feedback, and telling us what’s broken is what lets us keep building.
We’re doing this around our kitchen table (literally). Thank you for trusting us with your homeschool.
Trusted by 15,000+ families
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“Not only is this app insanely helpful, but it's beautiful too. Everything is laid out so well, you don't have to search for anything. Easy to open during spontaneous activities track and move on. THANK YOU!”
Aurora
“Thank you so much for your reply, and this amazing resource you have created and are sharing with so many!! It's a game changer!”
Alicia
“I am really liking your app and site. I try to use it everyday. I like the convenience of the app. Great app.”
Laura
“I just started using this last week and it's amazing!”
Melissa
“This app is genius and I can't wait to use this.”
Janet
“This is something I would pay for... And I think you certainly deserve something for all of the work you put into it.”
Jodi
“Not only is this app insanely helpful, but it's beautiful too. Everything is laid out so well, you don't have to search for anything. Easy to open during spontaneous activities track and move on. THANK YOU!”
Aurora
“Thank you so much for your reply, and this amazing resource you have created and are sharing with so many!! It's a game changer!”
Alicia
“I am really liking your app and site. I try to use it everyday. I like the convenience of the app. Great app.”
Laura
“I just started using this last week and it's amazing!”
Melissa
“This app is genius and I can't wait to use this.”
Janet
“This is something I would pay for... And I think you certainly deserve something for all of the work you put into it.”
Jodi
Pricing
One plan. Everything included.
HomeTrail Plus
Everything in Free, plus TrailGuide, Nest, Compass work review, grading, and more.
or $199/year Save 17%
Start your 10-day free trial10-day free trial, then $19.99/mo unless canceled Just need the basics? Start with HomeTrail Free →
Everything included
- TrailGuide SMS assistant
- Nest distraction-free kid app
- Compass work review; lesson prep coming to Compass
- Generated packs & worksheets
- Planner, Journey & reports
- Grading & transcripts
- Family & teacher access
- Priority support
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Questions & answers
TrailGuide (text-based planning, logging, and work review), Nest, Compass work review and lesson prep (coming to Compass), grading and transcripts, family and teacher access, priority support, and the full app for your planner, reports, and Journey.
Yes. HomeTrail Free keeps the core planner, attendance, session logs, journals, and portfolio reports. Plus is where TrailGuide, Nest, Compass, grading, and transcripts live. You can start on the free tier and upgrade to Plus whenever you’re ready.
Your homeschool assistant by text. TrailGuide works across HomeTrail to log sessions, check attendance, plan what’s next, send work to Nest, snap a photo of finished work for feedback, and more. You can do it all without opening the app.
No. Tell TrailGuide what was unfinished and ask it to move the specific session you choose. Schedule changes are parent-directed and require your confirmation; HomeTrail does not silently rewrite the rest of your plan.
Yes. Upload an authorized curriculum PDF in Compass, review the parsed lesson plan, and choose when to add it to your planner. The source PDF is deleted after parsing, and HomeTrail retains only sanitized planning metadata, not the curriculum file or extracted text.
Text TrailGuide a photo, or let Nest submit a completed worksheet. Compass reviews it with warm, specific feedback and logs it to their portfolio. Feedback is encouragement and next steps, not an official grade. See our Privacy Policy for how work review works.
No. You’re the one in the room. TrailGuide and Compass support you and keep kids on curated, parent-approved work instead of putting them in a chat interface. Compass reviews work and preps next steps; you do the teaching.
Yes. Cancel from your billing page whenever you want. You keep access through the end of the period, and your account stays on the free tier after that.
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