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Twinkl gives you a library and leaves the planning to you. If what you actually need is someone to say teach this tomorrow — with Islamic Studies already in the week rather than arranged separately — that is a different kind of product.
Maths and everything for under-7s are free, forever.
Twinkl describes itself as a home of teacher-created materials, and advertises over a million resources. That is its strength, and it is a real one. If you know you want a Year 4 fractions worksheet on Tuesday afternoon, Twinkl will have several, and they will be well made.
The work it leaves you is the week itself. Which topic comes before which, how long to spend, what to do when your child doesn't get it, and when to check they've retained it. Teachers do that from training. A parent who decided to home-educate three months ago usually does not, and it is the part most people find hardest.
Sasta Basta starts from the other end. You choose a starting year group and the days you can teach. It builds the timetable, interleaves the subjects, and rolls the plan forward when a day gets missed — which it will. The worksheets exist, but they sit inside a sequence rather than in a search box.
| Twinkl | Sasta Basta | |
|---|---|---|
| What it fundamentally is | A searchable library of resources | A sequenced programme with a timetable |
| Breadth of printables | Over a million resources | One worksheet per chapter, 616 chapters |
| Tells you what to teach next | You decide | Yes — a plan built from your start year |
| Worksheets regenerate with new numbers | Fixed PDFs | Yes, on primary maths |
| Child works on screen | Some interactive resources | Lessons, quizzes and tests in the app |
| Marks the work and tracks progress | Learner logins, teacher-oriented | Yes, per child, with a parent report |
| Islamic Studies as a taught subject | RE, plus Ramadan and Hajj resources | 84 lessons, in the same timetable |
| Works offline | Download first | Installs as an app and keeps working |
| Free tier | Free account available | Maths and all under-7s, no account |
| Classroom display and admin material | Extensive | None — it isn't for classrooms |
Breadth, and it isn't close. A million resources against our 616 chapters is not a comparison we win, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. Twinkl also serves schools properly — display material, planning documents, assessment packs, things a classroom teacher needs and a home-educating parent does not.
If you are already happy planning your own week and simply want excellent printables to fill it, Twinkl is the better buy. Several families use both, and that is a perfectly sensible answer.
Twinkl covers Religious Education and has material for Ramadan and Hajj. That is a different thing from a sequenced Islamic Studies curriculum. Sasta Basta teaches 84 Islamic lessons — aqeedah, seerah, fiqh, Qur'an — built with the same structure as maths or science, and scheduled in the same week. Your child's deen is not an after-school extra.
Every home-educating family loses days to illness, travel and life. A library doesn't notice. The plan here rolls forward, so a missed Tuesday doesn't quietly become a month behind with nobody tracking it.
On primary maths, the worksheet generator produces fresh questions each time, with an answer key that always matches the sheet in your child's hand. A fixed PDF library cannot do that — the second print is the same sheet.
If you teach a classroom, use Twinkl. If you want resources in a language we don't publish in, use Twinkl. If you need a specific craft activity for a topic we don't cover — and there are many — use Twinkl. We cover 11 subjects properly rather than everything partially, and we would rather say so than pretend.
Twinkl's own description of its resource library and membership: twinkl.co.uk · membership page. Figures for Sasta Basta are counted from the app's own curriculum data. Twinkl is a trademark of Twinkl Ltd; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Last checked November 2026 — if anything here has gone out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
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