StundenPilot
StundenPilot turns a subject, topic and year group into a complete lesson plan, printable worksheet and answer key in under a minute, built around the Austrian Mittelschule curriculum for years 5 to 8.
What is StundenPilot?
StundenPilot is an Austrian web application that turns four inputs — subject, topic, year group and lesson length — into a complete, teachable lesson. Its homepage pitch is Drei Angaben. Eine fertige Stunde.: three entries, one finished lesson. What comes back in under a minute is a structured lesson flow with phases, learning objectives and a blackboard sketch, a print-ready A4 worksheet, its answer key, and differentiated versions of the same tasks.
The claim that separates it from a general chatbot is specific and checkable: the Austrian Lehrplan is built into the engine rather than looked up, so the learning objectives quote the competence area for that subject and year group word for word. Each phase also comes with the questions a teacher would ask and the answers pupils typically give. The scope is deliberately narrow — the Austrian Mittelschule, lower secondary, years 5 to 8 — but it spans the usual subjects: maths, German, English, history, geography, biology, physics, chemistry, music, art and sport.
Output is a document, not a block of text to reformat. Worksheets arrive as A4 sheets with a name field, numbered exercises and writing lines, downloadable as print-ready HTML. They stay editable in the browser: teachers can rephrase, reorder or delete tasks and insert their own images, and those edits persist in a saved library rather than disappearing into a chat history. Eight kinds of supplementary material can be generated on demand, and images or PDFs can be uploaded as source inspiration for a topic.
A second module, the Wochenplaner, is free and works without an account: a weekly timetable with classes and notes, from which any slot can generate a lesson. Pupil names, marks and attendance stay in the browser and never reach the servers. The generation engine is Anthropic's Claude, named in the privacy notice. Five complete sample lessons can be read without signing up. The site and its output are in German, and the publisher is a sole trader based in Upper Austria.
What it does
- Generate a full lesson flow with phases, learning objectives and a blackboard sketch from subject, topic, year group and lesson length
- Produce a print-ready A4 worksheet with eight exercise types, and its answer key automatically
- Differentiate the same lesson across three ability levels in a single click
- Create eight kinds of supporting material: memory games, quizzes, dominoes, text puzzles, role cards, moderation cards, info sheets and case studies
- Edit exercises in the browser — rephrase, reorder, delete, insert your own images — and keep the changes
- Export the lesson flow on its own, for a lesson observation or a teaching portfolio
- Plan the week in the free timetable planner and generate a lesson straight from a slot
When to use StundenPilot / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if StundenPilot is the right fit.
When to use StundenPilot
- Austrian Mittelschule teachers working across years 5 to 8, the curriculum the tool is actually built on
- Teachers of mixed-ability classes who need the same lesson at three difficulty levels without writing it three times
- Teachers juggling several classes or subjects, which is precisely what the Pro tier is pitched at
- Trainee teachers and anyone preparing for a lesson observation, thanks to the standalone lesson-flow export
- German-speaking teachers in Germany and Switzerland willing to adapt the output to their own curriculum
When not to use StundenPilot
- Primary and upper-secondary teachers outside years 5 to 8, where nothing has been curriculum-optimised
- Universities and corporate training teams, for whom the tool holds no material at all
- Schools that want the tool wired into their LMS or student information system: there is no API and no connector
- Institutions buying centrally, as there is no school licence, no seat-based tier and no data processing agreement to sign
- Teachers outside the German-speaking world, since both the interface and the generated material are in German
How to use StundenPilot
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Read one of the five published sample lessons first — no account is needed to open them
- Create an account with an email address and password, or in one click with Google, then confirm by email
- Enter the subject, the topic, the year group and the lesson length
- Optionally upload an image or a PDF for the AI to draw on as inspiration
- Run the generation and wait: the site claims under sixty seconds per lesson draft
- Read the lesson flow and correct the worksheet in the browser editor, rephrasing, reordering or deleting tasks
- Ask for the three differentiated levels if the class needs them
- Generate whichever supporting materials suit the lesson, from memory games to role cards
- Download everything as print-ready HTML, or export the lesson flow on its own
- Save the plan to the library so it can be reopened and reworked later
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The output is a finished document rather than text to reformat: A4 sheets with a name field, numbered exercises, writing lines and an answer key
- The Austrian curriculum is quoted literally in the learning objectives, which is the one thing a general chatbot cannot claim
- Three-level differentiation in a single click addresses a genuine daily problem in mixed-ability classes
- Pricing is low and legible: €8.99 per month, cancellable monthly, with no minimum term and no hidden extras
- The free plan is permanent and honest — the FAQ states plainly that there is no separate trial period and no card is required
- Pupil data is protected by design: names, marks and attendance stay in the browser and never reach the servers
- Four processors are named one by one with purpose and location, which is rare from a publisher this size
Cons
- The scope is narrow: only the Austrian Mittelschule, years 5 to 8, is genuinely curriculum-optimised
- German only — there is no English interface, and the /en and /de paths both return 404
- Quotas are tight: five drafts in total on the free plan, ten generations a month on Basic, twenty on Pro
- There is no API and no connector to any school system, so nothing integrates with an LMS or timetable software
- No school or institutional offer exists: billing is individual through Stripe, with no seat-based tier and no DPA
- The site contradicts itself twice — the FAQ promises EU-only servers while the privacy notice places Anthropic in the United States, and the legal notice declares the publisher exempt from VAT while the pricing page advertises prices including VAT
- The terms are dated April 2025 while the privacy notice is dated August 2026, so the contract lags well behind the product it describes
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available at €0, covering five complete lesson drafts in total as a one-off allowance rather than a monthly reset. The cheapest paid tier is Basic at €8.99 per month, raising the allowance to ten generations of one to four lessons each, and Pro costs €13.99 per month for twenty. All paid tiers are billed monthly through Stripe and may be cancelled at any time, with no minimum term. There is no separate free trial: the free plan is the trial, and no card is asked for.
- Gratis — €0
- permanent — up to 5 lesson drafts in total (5 generations of 1 lesson each) as a one-off allowance with no monthly reset
- worksheet and answer key
- in-browser editor
- lesson-flow export
- one free trial each of differentiation and supplementary material
- community support
- Basic — €8.99 per month
- marked as the recommended tier — up to 40 lesson drafts per month (10 generations of 1 to 4 lessons each)
- renewed monthly
- sequences of one to four lessons in a single plan
- three-level differentiation
- all eight supplementary material types
- saved plans
- email support
- Pro — €13.99 per month — up to 80 lesson drafts per month (20 generations of 1 to 4 lessons each)
- everything in Basic
- unlimited saved plans
- early access to new features
- priority support
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how StundenPilot handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is unusually detailed for a one-person business. The privacy notice, last updated August 2026, names Tobias Schott as controller with a postal address, cites its legal bases article by article (Art. 6(1)(a), (b), (c) and (f)), lists data subject rights with their articles, and names the Austrian supervisory authority, the Datenschutzbehörde in Vienna. Four processors are named individually with purpose and location: Supabase, Stripe, Anthropic and Vercel, with standard contractual clauses covering transfers outside the EU. Only technical session cookies are used, with no tracking and no consent banner. No DPO is appointed, no data processing agreement is offered, and no Article 27 representative exists — none is required, the publisher being established in Austria. One inconsistency: the homepage FAQ states that all data is processed on EU servers, while the privacy notice itself places Anthropic in the United States.
Who owns the data?
The terms grant teachers unlimited use of everything they generate — lesson plans, worksheets, answer keys — for their own teaching, with no permission needed. Reselling, commercial transfer and mass distribution are forbidden without express consent, and the platform itself, code and design included, stays under the publisher's copyright. Tobias Schott is the named data controller. Prompts, meaning subject, topic and year group, travel to Anthropic's Claude API and are not stored long-term; pupil names, marks and attendance never reach the servers at all and remain in the browser. The publisher explicitly disclaims any warranty on the pedagogical accuracy of what the AI produces, and requires the teacher to check it before use.
Reuse rights
Teachers may reuse the generated lesson plans and worksheets freely in their own classroom without asking permission: printing, handing out to pupils, editing and adapting are all covered. Saved plans stay editable in the account library and download as print-ready HTML, with the lesson flow exportable as a separate document for an observation or a teaching portfolio. The limit is commercial rather than practical: § 7 of the terms prohibits reselling, commercial redistribution and mass dissemination without express permission, so circulating a worksheet well beyond one's own classes sits outside what the licence allows.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Austrian law applies and the competent supervisory authority is the Datenschutzbehörde in Vienna. The privacy notice names four processors with their locations. Supabase handles authentication, user data and the database in the EU, specifically Frankfurt on AWS eu-central-1. Stripe processes payments and subscriptions across the United States and the EU under standard contractual clauses. Anthropic's Claude API performs the AI generation in the United States, again under standard contractual clauses, with inputs stated not to be used for training. Vercel hosts and delivers the application across the EU and the United States. The most sensitive data never moves at all: pupil names, marks and attendance from the weekly planner are held only in the browser. One caveat, and it matters: the homepage FAQ asserts that all data is processed and stored on EU servers, which the privacy notice itself contradicts. The domain resolves to a United States IP address, but that is an anycast edge node and says nothing about where data rests.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting StundenPilot.
- The publisher disclaims all warranty on the pedagogical accuracy of the generated content: checking it before class is a contractual obligation, not merely good practice
- The tool sells time saved, not thinking done — leaning on it too heavily quietly outsources the didactic design of a lesson
- Several teachers prompting the same topic will converge on similar lessons, flattening the variety pupils experience
- Prompts travel to Anthropic in the United States under standard contractual clauses, which is worth knowing before typing anything sensitive into the topic field
- Planner data lives only in the browser: clearing the cache or switching device loses the timetable, classes and notes, because nothing is backed up server-side
- The FAQ's promise that all data stays on EU servers is contradicted by the privacy notice, so it should not be repeated to a head teacher as a compliance argument
- Quotas count generations rather than hours, so ten Basic generations can mean anything between ten and forty lessons depending on what is asked for
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. There is nothing to install: it is a web application, and the weekly planner works without even creating an account. Signing up takes an email address and a password, or one click with Google. Generating a lesson means filling four fields — subject, topic, year group and length — with no prompt writing and no AI knowledge required. Nothing has to be configured or connected, since there is no API, no single sign-on and no school system integration to set up. The only mild friction is that documents come out as HTML, so printing goes through the browser.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind StundenPilot
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement StundenPilot.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly counts as one generation?
Is there a free plan, and is there a free trial?
What does it cost once the free drafts run out?
Which school system and which subjects does it cover?
Are pupil names and marks sent anywhere?
Which AI model is behind it, and is my input used for training?
Can I edit what the AI produces, and may I reuse it?
Is there an API, a mobile app, or an integration with school software?
Who is behind StundenPilot?
Should you pick StundenPilot?
StundenPilot is a narrow tool, and that is the point of it. One school system, one cycle, one language: the Austrian Mittelschule from years 5 to 8, in German. Within that boundary it does something a general assistant does not, quoting the official curriculum's competence areas verbatim in its learning objectives and returning a finished A4 worksheet with an answer key rather than text to reformat. The three-level differentiation and the eight kinds of supplementary material address the parts of lesson preparation that actually consume evenings.
The commercial terms are refreshingly plain: a permanent free plan of five drafts with no card and no countdown, then €8.99 or €13.99 a month, cancellable monthly. The data hygiene is better than the size of the operation would suggest — pupil names, marks and attendance never leave the browser, four processors are named individually with their locations, and there are no tracking cookies.
The reservations are structural. The publisher is one person trading as a Kleinunternehmer, with no company behind him, no data processing agreement to sign and no institutional offer, which makes this a tool a teacher buys personally rather than one a school adopts. There is no API and nothing connects to school software. And the site contradicts itself in two places worth knowing about: the FAQ promises that all data is processed on EU servers while its own privacy notice places Anthropic in the United States, and the legal notice declares the publisher exempt from VAT while the pricing page advertises prices as including it. The terms of service are also more than a year older than the privacy notice and do not mention the newer planner module. For an Austrian secondary teacher working alone, the offer is convincing; for a school, the paperwork is not there yet.
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