The short answer
- Choose Brisk if you want AI help inside the tools you already use, such as Google Docs and Slides, especially for feedback on student writing and for adapting resources you already trust.
- Choose Lesson Dino if you want to start from a topic and get a whole lesson: a plan, slides, a printable worksheet, video clips and numbered sources, all made together.
What Brisk is
Brisk Teaching describes itself as "AI that works where educators work". It's a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that adds AI tools to the websites, documents and videos you already use. Its site lists more than 30 creation tools, including lesson plan, presentation, quiz and rubric generators.
Brisk is known for feedback: it can give personalised feedback on student writing, one piece at a time or for a whole class. It can also change the reading level of a text and translate it into more than 50 languages. For students, Brisk Boost offers AI activities built for school. Brisk is free for teachers, with paid plans for schools and districts.
What Brisk does well
- Works where you already are. No new website to learn: the tools appear inside the documents and pages you use.
- Feedback on writing. Personalised comments on student work.
- Adapting what you have. Turn an article, website or video into a quiz, a presentation or a reading at a different level.
- Free for teachers. Its site lists a free plan for teachers.
What Lesson Dino does differently
Brisk is at its best when you already have a resource. Lesson Dino is at its best when you're starting from nothing but a topic.
- Starts from a topic. Type the subject, year group and topic. Lesson Dino finds the facts first, from sources it numbers, including your country's curriculum documents where it can find them.
- The whole lesson, together. Nine lesson ideas, a timed plan, video clips, slides and a printable worksheet, all from the same facts, so they match.
- Print-ready worksheets. A4 pages with an answer sheet, from more than 100 kinds of task. For maths, it draws diagrams from the numbers and checks the answers with code.
- Videos with timings. The best YouTube clips for the topic, the part of each one to play, and what to ask afterwards.
- PowerPoint and your school's template. Slides in 80 designs or your school's own template, ready to present or download.
At a glance
| Lesson Dino | Brisk | |
|---|---|---|
| How you use it | A website: type a topic | A browser extension inside your tools |
| Best at | Making a whole new lesson | Feedback, and adapting resources you have |
| Lesson plans | Yes, with timings, as Word or PDF | Yes, with its lesson plan generator |
| Slides | PowerPoint, in 80 designs or your school's template | Google Slides, with its presentation generator |
| Feedback on student work | No | Yes |
| Price | Free during the beta | Free for teachers; paid plans for schools |
Which should you choose?
If you mark a lot of writing, or you mostly adapt resources you already have, Brisk is very useful. If you need to build a lesson from scratch, with slides, a worksheet and a plan that fit together, try Lesson Dino. Since they do different jobs, many teachers could use both.
Lesson Dino is new and still in beta, and it's free while the beta lasts. Join the beta and we will send you an invite.
Questions teachers ask
Is Lesson Dino a free Brisk alternative?
Lesson Dino is free while it's in beta. Join the beta with your email address and we will send you an invite. Our prices will be published on the pricing page soon.
Can I use Lesson Dino and Brisk together?
Yes. They do different jobs. Brisk is strong on feedback and on adapting resources you already have; Lesson Dino makes new lessons from a topic.
Do I need to install anything for Lesson Dino?
No. Lesson Dino runs in your web browser. There's nothing to install.
We checked Brisk's website on 14 October 2026. Features and prices change, so check briskteaching.com for the latest. Brisk Teaching is a trademark of its owner. Lesson Dino isn't connected with Brisk.
