Brisk Teaching vs Diffit: pricing, features and which to choose

Brisk Teaching is an education software company focused on teacher and school workflows. Company announcements report more than one million educators across over 100 countries and partnerships with more than 2,000 schools in 2025. Brisk announced a $5 million seed round in September 2024 and a $15 million Series A on March 26, 2025, led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Owl Ventures, South Park Commons, and Springbank Collective participating. Arman Jaffer is identified as founder in March 2025 funding coverage. Current company announcements present Brisk Teaching as active. Its identity centers on placing creation, feedback, and classroom preparation tools within the applications educators already use, rather than asking them to rebuild their workflow in a separate destination.

Brisk Teaching works through Chrome and Edge extensions and a web platform. Teachers can open Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube pages, PDFs, web pages, Microsoft tools, or supported learning management environments, then invoke Brisk to create lessons, quizzes, slides, feedback, or reading-level changes. Supported environments include Canvas, Schoology, and Google Classroom. The product family includes Brisk Next for generating, refining, bundling, and sharing content; more than 35 tools; Glow & Grow feedback; Brisk Boost teacher-guided student activities; a student writing-feedback extension; and Curriculum Intelligence. The usual workflow is generation followed by teacher editing and classroom use. That arrangement keeps educators responsible for deciding whether an activity fits a class, a standard, or a particular student need.

Brisk is narrower than MagicSchool in publicly described student and teacher suite breadth, while its browser-based workflow reaches documents, slides, videos, PDFs, web pages, Microsoft tools, and LMS settings. SchoolAI is more centered on supervised student spaces and teacher-directed interactions, whereas Brisk emphasizes creation and feedback within existing teaching workflows. Microsoft Copilot is a broader workplace assistant, not a direct classroom specialist. MagicSchool publishes a $0 tier and a $12.99 monthly or $99.96 annual Plus plan, while Brisk uses custom pricing for paid plans. Brisk says teacher review remains necessary and does not promise model-specific accuracy guarantees. It best suits educators and districts seeking embedded content creation, feedback, and managed curriculum controls.

Diffit is an education software company founded in 2023 that creates materials for differentiated instruction. Its stated purpose is helping teachers adapt topics, articles, links, images, and reading material for students working at different levels. The product targets schools and districts, including English-language learner, special education, intervention, and MTSS instruction. Diffit is a for-profit company, and its school offering is intended for broad staff access rather than student accounts. The service runs as a web app and produces resources for printing or sharing. Its focus is narrower than an all-purpose teacher assistant: adapting instructional material is the central task, while related activities are generated around that source. This makes it most relevant when one lesson must serve learners with varied reading needs.

Diffit begins with a teacher-provided topic, question, article link, image, or pasted text. The teacher selects an approximate reading level and language, then generates materials that may include a leveled reading, summary, vocabulary, multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, and open-ended prompts. Each resource can be edited, scaffolded, extended, copied, printed, downloaded as a PDF, or shared with colleagues. The workflow creates several classroom components from one request, reducing the need to prepare every reading level and activity separately. Teachers can therefore start with existing instructional content instead of writing a full lesson from scratch. The free plan covers the central creation workflow, while paid access adds exports, alignment, history, reuse, refreshing, and graphic organizers for recurring planning.

Diffit is more focused on differentiated source material than MagicSchool, which covers a wider range of teacher tasks. Brisk Teaching is more closely connected to browser and document workflows, while Canva for Education is stronger for visual design and presentation production. Diffit’s main advantage is the short path from source material to leveled readings, questions, vocabulary, and printable activities. Its tradeoffs are narrower scope and limited public detail about technical operation and school pricing. Teachers who need fast differentiation around existing material should pick Diffit. Teams seeking an all-purpose teacher assistant, a design suite, or a public integration layer should consider MagicSchool, Brisk Teaching, or Canva for Education instead.