Staffroom vs Teachmate
Teachmate is the biggest AI toolkit for UK teachers. If you want one place for worksheets, slides and quick generators across every phase, it is a strong choice. Staffroom is narrower on purpose: it is built around one job, your primary report season, and the notes that make each report about the child rather than the year group.
At a glance
What it is
Teachmate
A broad toolkit of AI tools for planning, resources, slides, worksheets and reports
Staffroom
A running record of each pupil through the year that drafts your reports
Number of tools
Teachmate
Around 160
Staffroom
A focused set: reports, Sparks, lesson planning and SEN tools
Who it's for
Teachmate
Teachers across phases, primary and secondary
Staffroom
UK primary teachers and schools, Reception to Year 6
Free option
Teachmate
A free tier with a set of free tools
Staffroom
A Free plan that keeps your classes, pupils, Sparks and reports, with 5 report drafts a month. Free tools need no account.
Individual price
Teachmate
£6.99 a month, or £72 a year (£59.88 for the first year with their offer code)
Staffroom
£6.99 a month, or £72 a year. 14-day trial with no card.
Whole-school price
Teachmate
From £2 per educator per month, billed annually
Staffroom
£330 a year for up to 10 teachers, £749 for up to 30, £1,190 for unlimited staff
Teachmate details are taken from teachmate.com/pricing and their homepage on 4 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check their site for the latest. Teachmate is a trademark of its owner. Staffroom is not affiliated with Teachmate.
What Staffroom does differently
Reports built on what you noticed
Through the year you log Sparks: one sentence about something a pupil did. At report time every draft is built on those moments, and the coverage view shows which children you haven't noted anything about yet, while there is still time.
The whole class in one go
Paste your class list once. When reports are due, press one button and every pupil gets a draft that follows up last term's targets and sets the next ones. You read, edit and sign off.
Pupil names never reach the AI
Names are swapped for pseudonyms before anything is sent to an AI model, in the app and in the free tools, and put back afterwards. This is how the system is built, not a setting.
Sign-off for senior leaders
On school plans, leaders see report progress across every class, approve reports before they go home, and get warnings for the wrong name, mismatched pronouns and copied paragraphs.
When Teachmate is the better choice
- You teach secondary, or across phases.
- You want worksheets, slideshows, images and a wide range of quick generators in one place.
- Your school already has a Teachmate licence and its report writer covers what you need.
Using both
Plenty of teachers keep a general toolkit for resources and a specialist tool for reports. Staffroom's Free plan has no time limit, so you can add your class, log Sparks through the term and see what your reports look like before you decide anything.
See your own class's reports drafted
Free plan, plus a 14-day Pro trial with no card.