A comparison written by one of the two

Letters & Devotion vs Monarch (Alpha Omega Publications)

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.

Skip to signing up ↓

What Monarch (Alpha Omega Publications) is

Monarch is the online curriculum from Alpha Omega Publications, the publisher of the LIFEPAC and Horizons print curricula that a great many Christian homeschools have used for decades. It covers grades 3 through 12 in Bible, history and geography, language arts, math, science and a long list of electives, with lessons, quizzes and tests graded automatically and a parent dashboard for assigning and reporting. Alpha Omega also runs Ignite Christian Academy, an accredited online school that is a separate product from the curriculum. Its science is taught from a biblical creation position.

The pricing difference that actually decides it

Monarch is priced per student. Their catalog sells it two ways: one course at a time, bought per year, or a Full Access subscription per student that opens every subject, also priced by the year, with a free trial to start. The household total is that per-student figure times the children enrolled, and it starts at third grade, so younger children need something else. Read the current figures on aop.com rather than on any review site, including this one.

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 Monarch (Alpha Omega Publications)'s current pricing on their own site →

When Monarch (Alpha Omega Publications) is the better choice

You want science written from a recent-creation position by a publisher that has done it for decades. Monarch's science courses are. Letters & Devotion holds the same position in Creation units new in October 2026, so the track record is theirs.
You want a publisher with a long record in Christian homeschooling and print sisters you may already own. Alpha Omega has been at this for decades, and a family moving from LIFEPAC or Horizons will find the same scope. Letters & Devotion launched recently, and that should count against us if a track record matters to you.
You need an elective we do not have. Their elective list is long and covers subjects outside our 84 courses.
You want the option of an accredited enrolment from the same publisher. Alpha Omega runs Ignite Christian Academy; Letters & Devotion is a curriculum and issues no diploma.

Where Letters & Devotion is different

Kindergarten through twelfth, not third through twelfth

Letters & Devotion starts at kindergarten with systematic phonics and a Bible year in Genesis, so a family with a five-year-old and a fourteen-year-old is on one product. Monarch begins at third grade.

A teacher that answers the mistake, not a grader

Clara reads the actual wrong answer and explains what went wrong in it, in conversation, before the child moves on. Auto-grading marks the answer right or wrong; the explanation is the parent's job. Every conversation is readable from the parent side afterward.

Creation taught, and the choice left with you

Monarch teaches a recent creation and presents nothing else. Letters & Devotion teaches six-day creation alongside a King James Bible course every year, and lets each family choose at signup whether evolution is taught alongside it as what mainstream science says, and how far sex education goes.

One price for the household

$29 a month covers every child in the family across all 84 courses, and all of them are readable in full before you pay, with no account and no card.

Start 30 days free

Or read all 84 courses first and compare the actual sequences. That door needs nothing from you at all.

Look inside all 84 courses firstEvery unit, every skill, every objective. No account, no card.

or start now

What grade(s)? (so their first lesson is ready)

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).

I am this child's parent or guardian, and I agree to the above.

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.

Rather see it first? Try a full lesson free

Questions parents ask

Does Monarch teach the same view of origins as Letters & Devotion?

Yes on creation. Monarch's science is written from a biblical creation position and so are Letters & Devotion's Creation units. Both teach a recent, literal creation. The difference is the choice: Letters & Devotion lets each family decide at signup whether evolution is taught alongside creation as what mainstream science says, and how far sex education goes, and a lesson you turn off is never shown.

Which covers the early grades?

Letters & Devotion runs from kindergarten. Monarch starts at third grade, and Alpha Omega offers print curricula for the younger years.

Is Letters & Devotion cheaper?

For one child taking every subject, compare their Full Access price for a year to $348. For several children the gap opens, because Letters & Devotion is one price for the household and Monarch is priced per student. Their current figures are on aop.com.

Other comparisons

Letters & Devotion vs Time4Learning →Letters & Devotion vs Miacademy →Letters & Devotion vs Power Homeschool →Letters & Devotion vs Khan Academy →Letters & Devotion vs Abeka →Letters & Devotion vs Sonlight →Letters & Devotion vs BJU Press →Letters & Devotion vs The Good and the Beautiful →Letters & Devotion vs Master Books →Letters & Devotion vs Classical Conversations →Letters & Devotion vs My Father's World →

Why there is no price for Monarch (Alpha Omega Publications) 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.