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Letters & Devotion vs Miacademy

We make one of these, so read this the way you would read any comparison written by a seller. What we can do is be specific about our own product, accurate about the shape of theirs, and honest about where they are the better answer. Their current price is on their site, not on this page, and the reason is at the bottom.

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What Miacademy is

Miacademy is an online curriculum for the elementary and middle grades, with a companion product for older students. It is known for being engaging: gamified progress, rewards, and moderated kid-safe social features that let children interact inside the platform. For a lot of younger children that is the difference between doing the work and not.

The pricing difference that actually decides it

Miacademy prices per child, with monthly, annual and multi-child options and periodic introductory offers. Your household total is their price multiplied by the number of children, less whatever the current family arrangement is, so check the current terms on their site.

Letters & Devotion is $29 a month for every child in the household, month to month, with no per-child seats and no course limits. That is $348 a year whether you have one child or four, or $290 a year on the annual plan. The first 30 days are free with no card, and when they end, lessons pause unless you choose to subscribe.

The comparison to run is the same either way: monthly price, times the number of children, times twelve.

Check Miacademy's current pricing on their own site →

When Miacademy is the better choice

  • You want moderated social features. Children can interact with other students inside Miacademy in a supervised way. There is nothing equivalent in Letters & Devotion, which is a single child working with a teacher.
  • Your children are all in the elementary years and you want something built specifically for that age, rather than a K-12 sequence that has to serve a kindergartener and an eleventh grader.

Where Letters & Devotion is different

One price for the household, K through 12

$29 a month covers every child in the family across the whole K-12 catalog, so the price does not change when the younger one starts or the older one reaches high school.

A full high school sequence, not just the early years

The upper courses are full-year courses. Grade 9 biology runs 11 units and 98 skills from molecules through genetics, evolution and ecology to a defended capstone argument, and the transcript prints in one click.

Read everything before you pay

All 84 courses are open in full with no account and no card, so you can compare the actual sequences rather than the marketing pages.

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Before your child starts: what we collect and why

We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Ticking the box below is how you, as the parent, give consent.

Read what we collect and why

Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic writes Clara's replies from the chat, the lesson and your child's first name. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies into the read-aloud voice. Spoken answers are turned into text on our own server and never sent anywhere. Our email provider sends you reports. Nobody sells your child's data or uses it for anything else.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailing our support address. If you refuse the sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
  • Safety: if your child writes something suggesting they may be hurt or in danger, we email you and the owner of Letters & Devotion the same day.

Ticking the box below is how you, as the parent, give that consent. Full details, including how long we keep each thing: Privacy Policy (version 2026-10-09).

Free for 30 days. No card. When the free days end, lessons pause unless you choose to subscribe, $29 a month for every child in the family. Nothing is ever charged without a card.

By continuing you agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy.

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Questions parents ask

Which is better for a young child who gets bored?

Probably Miacademy, honestly. It is built around rewards and gamified progress and it is good at holding a young child's attention. Letters & Devotion has none of that by design, which suits some children and not others.

Which is cheaper for three children?

Letters & Devotion is one price for the household, so three children cost $29 a month, or $348 a year. Miacademy prices per child with family options, so check their current terms and multiply by three.

Does Letters & Devotion have social features for children?

No. There is no student-to-student interaction of any kind. It is one child working with a teacher, and the parent can read every word of it afterwards.

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Why there is no price for Miacademy on this page

We checked in September 2026 and the sources contradicted each other, including the companies' own pages against the review sites. Publishing a competitor's price that turns out to be wrong is unfair to them and useless to you, and any figure here would be out of date within a month anyway. Ours is above, because it is ours and we can stand behind it. Theirs is one click away, on their site, where it is current.