Rosetta Stone Homeschool edition is targeted specifically to homeschooled students and their parents. This includes primary, secondary and even college-aged students. Rosetta Stone Personal is targeted towards older learners, but can be used by young learners as well.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool edition is meant to provide a complete curriculum solution for homeschooled students and their parents. This includes lesson planning, testing, guides for parent educators, progress-tracking tools for parent educators and alternative "learning paths" that allow parents to customize their curriculum to fit their child's needs. Rosetta Stone Personal edition is not designed to be a curriculum and therefore includes none of those features.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool edition offers a software-based solution with the choice of up to five levels per language. Parents can purchase one or all five levels, separately or as a software package. Rosetta Stone Personal edition offers the same software choices, but also has an online option. Instead of purchasing software for a one-time fee, learners can opt for a three- or six-month online subscription in which they have unrestricted access to all the levels of available software for their desired language.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool edition gives parents easier access to the software by offering a payment plan of five payments on every homeschool order. Parents still have the option of paying for their purchase in one payment. Rosetta Stone Personal edition only allows payment plans on select orders, namely on software combining three or more levels.