About Time vs. Homeschool Tracker

Where the difference shows up for your family

The places a single-purpose tool leaves a gap — and About Time fills it.

Bottom line

Homeschool Tracker is a record-keeper you feed. About Time keeps the records as a by-product of the day — and adds the state, funding, and field-trip layers it doesn't have.

Staying on the right side of your state's rules — the part most planners leave entirely to you.

When the rules change, you hear about it — automatically, for your state.

Education Savings Account money is real and growing. About Time is building first-class ESA support — capture, categorize, and keep it audit-ready — and no other tool here is even attempting it.

Tens of thousands of real, curriculum-classified destinations — not a blank calendar.

Help choosing what to teach — not just a place to type in what you already chose.

Who builds it, on what, and how long the trial runs before a card is required.

The daily workhorse — planning lessons, logging what got done, tracking hours.

The records that prove the year happened — transcripts, portfolios, clean exports.

What the software actually does for you with AI — not a checkbox, a capability.

How it feels to live in every day — on the couch, on the phone, mid-school-morning.

Running more than one student without doing the work more than once.

Finding other families — safely — for group trips and shared days.

Whose data it is, and whether it's the product.

How much hand-holding you get when you're new and it's August.