Byju's alternatives for parents who want worksheets

If you want your child practising on paper instead of watching another video, the honest Byju's alternatives fall into three groups: free national content such as DIKSHA and Khan Academy, printable worksheet libraries you buy by the pack, and tools that build practice from your own child's syllabus and then mark it. Here is what changed, and how to choose without repeating the mistake.

What happened to Byju's, and is the app still running?

The app is still running. The company behind it is in insolvency. Both things are true at once, and parents keep being told only one of them.

Think and Learn Private Limited, Byju's parent, is the corporate debtor in a corporate insolvency resolution process. The National Company Law Tribunal in Bengaluru admitted the Board of Control for Cricket in India's petition on 16 July 2024 over an operational debt of about ₹158 crore, appointed an interim resolution professional, and imposed a moratorium under Section 14 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. The Supreme Court put that process back on foot on 23 October 2024 in GLAS Trust Company LLC v. BYJU Raveendran and others, 2024 INSC 811. As of September 2026 the process is still open, with the founders challenging the largest creditor claim and further hearings listed through the month (ANI, 24 July 2026).

Meanwhile byjus.com is live and still selling. As of September 2026 the site lists the Learning App and Live Classes for Classes 4 to 10, an Early Learn programme for LKG to Class 3, and Aakash BYJU'S programmes above that. The main button says "Book your Free Session". No price appears anywhere on the page.

None of this is a reason to cheer. There are good teachers and a great deal of parents' money inside that process. It is a reason to be careful about how you buy the next thing.

What do I do about a subscription or an EMI I am still paying?

Untangle three things that get discussed as one.

The course. Money owed by a company inside an insolvency process is dealt with inside that process, because of the Section 14 moratorium above, rather than as an ordinary refund request. If a significant sum is involved, that is a conversation with a consumer lawyer.

The loan. An education EMI is usually a separate contract with a lending partner, not with the education company. It does not lapse because the course did. Find the lender's name on your bank statement or credit report and deal with that entity directly, in writing.

The complaint. The National Consumer Helpline, run by the Department of Consumer Affairs, takes grievances on 1915 between 8am and 8pm, on WhatsApp and SMS at +91 88000 01915, through the NCH and UMANG apps, and at consumerhelpline.gov.in, in 17 languages. Under the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020, a company's grievance officer has to acknowledge a complaint within 48 hours and redress it within one month.

Keep the dates, put it in writing rather than on a call, and save the acknowledgement. None of the above is legal advice.

What does the government tell parents to check before paying?

The Ministry of Education published an advisory to citizens about ed-tech companies on 23 December 2021. Five years on, it reads like it was written for this exact moment.

It has come to the notice of the Department of School Education and Literacy that some ed-tech companies are luring parents in the garb of offering free services and getting the Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) mandate signed or activating the Auto-debit feature, especially targeting the vulnerable families.

Ministry of Education, "Advisory to citizens regarding use of caution against Ed-tech Companies", 23 December 2021

Four of its points are worth copying onto a sticky note before you buy anything, from us or from anyone else:

• Avoid the automatic debit option for a subscription fee.
• Do not sign up for any loans of which you are not aware.
• Do not trust the success stories a company publishes without checking them, because "they might be a trap to gather more audience".
• Verify the content is in line with the syllabus your child is actually studying.

The last one is the point parents skip, and it is the one that decides whether the money bought anything.

Which Byju's alternative actually gives you worksheets?

It depends which of three different problems you are solving. All facts below verified as of September 2026.

If your child needs someone to explain a topic, the first two columns are where to look. If your child has been taught it and nobody can tell you which bits landed, that is the third column.

Where a free content library is the better choice

Often, and you should hear this plainly before spending anything.

DIKSHA is run by the Ministry of Education with NCERT, costs nothing, covers CBSE, NIOS and 36 state and union territory boards from pre-primary to Grade 12, and its QR codes are printed inside the textbook your child already carries. Khan Academy is free and its India courses are built on the NCERT chapters themselves: the Class 5 maths course runs through "Smart charts", "How big? How heavy?" and "Area and its boundary" because that is what the book calls them.

If money is tight, start with those two. Nothing we sell replaces free instruction from a well-made library, and a household that is short of cash and short of teaching should spend neither on us.

Two more honest cases. If your child needs a person to sit down and re-teach a topic, they need a teacher, and our guide on whether tuition is necessary in Classes 1 to 8 is a better read than any product page. And if you simply want a stack of printable sheets by topic, a worksheet library sold by the pack is a cheaper answer than a subscription, as long as you have already worked out which topic to buy.

What does a marked worksheet tell you that a video course cannot?

Which specific skill your own child is missing. That is the thing free content does not hand you, and it is the reason more content rarely fixes the problem.

The scale of the gap is measured every year. The Annual Status of Education Report 2024, a rural household survey of 649,491 children in 17,997 villages, found that 30.7% of Std V children could do a three-digit-by-one-digit division problem, up from 25.6% in 2022, and that 33.7% of Std III children could do a two-digit subtraction with borrowing, up from 25.9%. Enrolment in the 6 to 14 age group has sat above 95% for close to twenty years. So the children are in school, the free content has never been better, and fewer than one in three Class 5 children can divide.

The number no national survey can give you is your own child's. That is a per-child question, and it is answered by watching them do the questions and sorting the mistakes, not by adding another library.

Progress labels are the other half of it. Khan Academy marks a skill Mastered, Proficient, Familiar, Attempted or Not started, as of September 2026. Those words are useful inside Khan Academy. They are not the words on a CBSE report card, which is why what "mastered" and "developing" mean is a question parents keep having to ask.

LearnAlice is built for that gap and nothing else. You pick a topic, or photograph the page of the textbook your child is on, and it prints a worksheet aligned to your board and class, from Class 6 maths through the rest of Grades 1 to 8. The graded answers build a skill-by-skill picture in the vocabulary your report card already uses. LearnAlice does not teach your child, has no videos and no tutors, and will never claim otherwise. It tells you where your child actually stands, and the price is on the page.

FAQ

Is Byju's shutting down?

Not as of September 2026. Byju's parent company, Think and Learn Private Limited, has been in a corporate insolvency resolution process since the tribunal admitted the BCCI's petition on 16 July 2024, and that process is still open. The consumer app and website are meanwhile live and still selling courses.

What is the best Byju's alternative for CBSE worksheets?

There is no single best one, because parents want two different things. For free lessons and exercises mapped to NCERT, DIKSHA and Khan Academy are the strongest options and cost nothing. For printed worksheets aligned to your child's class that come back marked skill by skill, you are looking at a paid worksheet tool.

Can I get a refund from Byju's?

Refunds involving a company in insolvency are handled inside that process rather than as a normal cancellation, because of the moratorium imposed when the process was admitted. Register the grievance with the National Consumer Helpline on 1915, keep everything in writing, and take real money to a consumer lawyer rather than to a helpline.

Is there a Byju's alternative with no salesperson and no EMI?

Yes, and it is worth insisting on. The Ministry of Education's 2021 advisory tells parents to avoid auto-debit mandates and never to sign up for loans they are not aware of. Any product that shows its price on the page and lets you cancel in the account settings meets that bar. Ask before booking a session.

Want to know which skills are missing before you spend on anything else? Start a 14-day free trial, print a worksheet tonight, and see the picture on paper. No card, cancel anytime.