Comparison

Simple Timetable vs SchoolOrganizer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Simple Timetable

Instantly view your daily schedule on your Lock Screen or home screen with customizable widgets. Personalize your timetable with unique colors and designs. Set custom notifications for class alerts, including subject, time, and location.

Highlights
  • Lock Screen widgets
  • Home screen widgets
  • Customizable widget design
  • Customizable notification messages
  • Class alerts
  • Subject, time, and location details
Features
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Simple yet powerful timetable widgets. Even without opening the app, you can instantly check today’s schedule on your Lock Screen, Small, and Large widgets. Customize the widget design—background, text, alignment—and decorate your timetable neatly with your own colors. You can also edit notification messages to receive class alerts in your preferred style, including subject, time, and location.

About

SchoolOrganizer

Streamline your academic life with a comprehensive tool for managing timetables, homework, exams, and grades. This app helps you stay organized with customizable notifications and iCloud synchronization. It's designed to simplify school management for students and can share information with parents.

Highlights
  • Multiple timetable management
  • Automatic homework assignment
  • Exam date and location tracking
  • Grade calculation and filtering
  • Holiday tracking and auto-adjustment
  • iCloud data synchronization
  • Parental sharing options
Features
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The idea behind this app is to make the school life easier as it is. Do you know this problems about managing your time and tasks for school? Did not you forgot any dates one time? This app is the best solution! Timetable: • Managing more than one timetable at the same time • Support for mixed lesson lengths (single and double) • Two different timetables for even and odd weeks • Copy the timetable of the even week to the odd week • Individual period times • Detect current lesson • Widgets Homework: • Automatically adding homework for the current lesson based on the timetable • Save image with task • Great Notifications with direct interactions • Shows and updates the number of homework on the home screen automatically Exams: • Adding exam date, time, place and notes to the iOS calendar • Custom notifications with actions Grades: • Connecting grades with exams • Calculating the average of all grades or just by every subject • Filtering of grades • Different grade systems for different school types (Mainly adapted for German school systems) • Export grades so you can store them somewhere else Holidays: • Add holidays to know when you don't need to go to school • Calculations for homework and lessons are automatically adjust • Autoimport a set of holidays based on your state (only for Germany and Austria) Settings: • Customisable settings • Synchronise all your data through iCloud (iOS 13 only) • Restrict the app access with a custom passcode Parents: • Students can share their timetable and homework with parents • Build with privacy in mind: Nothings leaves the device or your iCloud The App: • Simple to use • iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Vision Pro support • Drag images and text from other apps into the app to add them as notes • Application shortcuts for fast adding homework to the current lesson Apple Watch: • See your timetable • Know which lessons you have today • Add new homework directly from your wrist with speak recognition This application is mainly designed for the German school system. If you are interested in purchasing this app via the business manager or school manager, please consider the app SchoolOrganizer (School Ed.). It will be great if I get a short feedback or functions which you want to have in the next version. Privacy: https://alexsteiner.de/schoolorganizer/PrivacyPolicy.html Terms: https://schulplaner-app.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Simple Timetable4 screens
SchoolOrganizer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SchoolOrganizer at 4.9 against Simple Timetable's 2.8. SchoolOrganizer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months). Simple Timetable's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. SchoolOrganizer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Simple Timetable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SchoolOrganizer holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SchoolOrganizer has 67 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Simple Timetable's written reviews are positive against 92% of SchoolOrganizer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Timetable ships an update every 7 months, SchoolOrganizer every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Simple Timetable versus SchoolOrganizer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple TimetableSchoolOrganizer
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (10 ratings)4.9 (67 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.1% of reviews91.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1067 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developergiseong kimAlexander Steiner

Customer experience

Simple Timetable

All ratings10 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive72.1%
Neutral9.8%
Negative18.0%

SchoolOrganizer

All ratings67 ratings
Positive98.5%
Neutral1.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive91.8%
Neutral4.9%
Negative3.3%

In-app purchases

None

Simple Timetable

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

SchoolOrganizer

Subscriptions2
  • SchoolOrganizer Pro (Monthly)$1.991 Month
  • SchoolOrganizer Pro (annual)7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time3
  • Parent Mode Plus$6.00
  • Family Package$9.99
  • SchoolOrganizer Pro (Lifetime)$19.99

Questions

Is Simple Timetable free?
Simple Timetable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SchoolOrganizer free?
SchoolOrganizer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Timetable or SchoolOrganizer?
SchoolOrganizer is rated higher. Simple Timetable averages 2.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while SchoolOrganizer averages 4.9 from 67 ratings.
Do Simple Timetable or SchoolOrganizer have ads?
Simple Timetable shows ads; SchoolOrganizer does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Timetable or SchoolOrganizer?
Simple Timetable ships an update every 7 months, and SchoolOrganizer every 10 days. Most recently, Simple Timetable was updated on October 14, 2026 and SchoolOrganizer on October 16, 2026.

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