My Classroom Economy is a free curriculum: lesson plans, printable money, and worksheets that walk a class through running its own economy on paper.
Fun Banking is an app — students sign in, accounts update in real time, and teachers manage everything from a dashboard. There's no printable money to laminate.
Choosing between them often isn't really a head-to-head — it's a question of whether you want a paper-based program or a digital tool. This page is based on each product's public materials at the time of writing.
Side by side
| Feature | Fun Banking | My Classroom Economy |
|---|---|---|
| Format | Web app + installable PWA | Printable PDFs and lesson plans |
| Cost | Free tier, with an optional paid plan | Free |
| Devices required | Internet-connected device for the teacher and students | None required for students |
| Student accounts and balances | Real-time, tracked automatically | Tracked on paper by students |
| Bills, payroll, store | built in | Driven by printable worksheets |
| Loans / credit cards / CDs | on the paid tier | Covered conceptually in lesson plans |
| Lesson plans + worksheets | Light | Comprehensive — that's the whole product |
| Time to set up | Minutes | Longer — requires printing and prep |
When Fun Banking is likely the better fit
- You want balances to update automatically instead of being tracked on paper.
- You teach with 1:1 devices or Chromebooks and want students logging in directly.
- You want a richer banking layer (loans, savings products, credit cards) without writing your own worksheets.
- You want to spend less of your prep time printing, cutting, and laminating.
When My Classroom Economy might be the better fit
We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. Here are honest reasons to choose them instead:
- You teach in a low-device classroom and want everything on paper.
- You specifically want a structured curriculum with discrete lessons and worksheets.
- You want a completely free program and don't need software.
Try Fun Banking free
No credit card required. You can have a classroom set up in a few minutes.
Get startedFun Banking and My Classroom Economy are unaffiliated. My Classroom Economy is a trademark of its respective owner; we use the name here only to identify the product being compared.
This page reflects our reading of publicly available information about My Classroom Economy as of June 2026. It isn't exhaustive, and product features, pricing, and policies change over time. For the most current details, please visit https://www.myclassroomeconomy.org.
If anything on this page is inaccurate, please let us know and we'll update it.