SchoolRoom vs Buchenwald
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SchoolRoom
Manage your school schedule with this powerful and flexible timetable app. Create unlimited timetables, customize lesson durations, and add notes with reminders. Easily share your schedule via various export options or print it out.
- Unlimited timetables
- Customizable lesson times
- Notes and reminders per subject
- Multiple sharing options (PDF, AirDrop)
- Printable schedules
- Today Widget and Siri integration
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You are looking for a clear school timetable, powerful and flexible, but not overloaded? Stop searching and give SchoolRoom a try! SchoolRoom offers the following features: • Unlimited number of timetables • Variable start / end days and period durations • Display time or start / end times of lessons as row headers • Up to four alternating weeks • Notes / tasks per subject with optional reminders • Many options to share timetables as graphics • Send timetables by email as PDF or export files • Export files can be used e.g. for web downloads • Share timetables with others by AirDrop • Print tables with a week per page via AirPrint • Today Widget displaying current and next lesson of the first timetable • Siri actions for current and next lesson, and upcoming subjects • Portrait and landscape mode on all devices • Designed for iPhone / iPod Touch and iPad, incl. Dark Mode • No ads, no registration, no hidden costs (donations welcome) Please leave a rating / review in the App Store and tell your friends if you like SchoolRoom!
Buchenwald
Explore the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp with this official app. It offers guided tours of the former camp grounds and the permanent exhibition, featuring historical sites, photographs, and personal accounts from former inmates. Use it as an interactive guide on-site or as a comprehensive source of information.
- Camp grounds tour
- Permanent exhibition tour
- 27 historically significant sites
- Photographs from archive
- Former inmate testimonies
- Interactive tour guide
- GPS function
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The official Buchenwald Memorial app In 1937, the Nazis had the Buchenwald concentration camp built on Ettersberg Mountain, just outside the city of Weimar. By the end of the war, the SS had held more than a quarter of a million persons from nearly all countries of Europe in custody here and in the many Buchenwald subcamps. Beginning in August 1945, the Soviet occupying power used parts of the former concentration camp as one of its special camps. After the dissolution of the special camp in early 1950, the German Democratic Republic established a national monument on the Ettersberg. Today the name "Buchenwald" stands like almost no other for the complexities of twentieth-century German and European history. The app offers a tour of the former camp grounds and a tour of the permanent exhibition on the history of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In both cases, you can design the tour according to your individual preferences. On the camp grounds, the app provides basic information on 27 historically significant sites, supplemented with photographs from the memorial's extensive photo archive. In addition, former inmates talk about their experiences. The tour of the permanent exhibition "Buchenwald: Ostracism and Violence 1937 to 1945" features the main exhibition texts and provides explanations of selected objects. Biographies shed light on the fates of the inmates. The app can be used both as an interactive tour guide at the memorial and as a general source of information on the history of the place. The app was developed by the Buchenwald Memorial in cooperation with itour city guide GmbH. For further information, see www.buchenwald.de and www.itour.de. Contents: • Tour of the camp grounds with stops at altogether 27 sites • Tour of the permanent exhibition • High-quality production with professional narrators • Convenient navigation map • Scrollable menu list offering direct selection of all sites • GPS function in outdoor area
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Buchenwald at 5.0 against SchoolRoom's 4.4. Buchenwald also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.5). SchoolRoom's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 50%) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. SchoolRoom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Buchenwald asks for nothing beyond the download.
Buchenwald holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolRoom has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of SchoolRoom's written reviews are positive against 50% of Buchenwald's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SchoolRoom ships an update every 2 months, Buchenwald every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SchoolRoom | Buchenwald |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.1% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthias Arndt | Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora |
Customer experience
SchoolRoom
Buchenwald
Bugs and requests
SchoolRoom
Reported bugs
13 issues- The 'Fertig' symbol turns grey after entering rooms and times.
- Widget does not work or shows incorrect times.
- App crashes when pressing the back button.
- Timetable is blank after inputting information.
- App glitches and closes when trying to add periods, classrooms, and subjects.
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- Cannot change time slots within a timetable.
- Widget does not update or shows wrong information.
- App is laggy and unresponsive.
- Cannot edit timetable entries.
- App crashes frequently.
- Widget does not show up to be added.
- Cannot add lessons to the actual timetable.
- Unclear how to add hours and subjects to the timetable.
Requested features
27 requests- Adapt app for university schedules
- Notifications or reminders
- Make days/periods different durations
- Allow individual time settings for modules/subjects
- Add Siri integration for timetable queries
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- Copy timetables feature
- Push notifications for lessons or daily brief
- Subscribe to external calendars or import from iPhone calendar
- MacBook version with sync
- Add teacher names or abbreviations
- Add to home screen as a widget
- Ability to share app contents directly (not just image)
- Add a To-Do list feature integrated with subjects
- Allow changing the starting week
- View future weeks and schedule accordingly
- Option for 12-hour AM/PM format
- Set half term and full term dates
- Allow setting a duration of time instead of start/end
- Display lesson number on the left edge
- Adapt display for iPhone X
- Ability to double book hours
- Allow reordering of timetables
- Show multiple timetables in home screen overview
- Widget customization for Week A/B
- Notifications on locked screen for lesson starts
- Configure second week similar to first for A/B schedules
- Sync timetable with MacBook
Buchenwald
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SchoolRoom
- Voluntary Donation$0.99
Buchenwald
No in-app purchases









