Comparison

Simple Timetable vs School Timetable

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

School Timetable

Easily manage your school, college, or university schedule with this versatile app. Track classes, homework, exams, and events with customizable reminders and a beautiful interface. Includes Apple Watch and home screen widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Color-coded classes
  • Add class details (room, professor, notes)
  • Multiple week timetable support
  • Customizable reminder notifications
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Home screen and lock screen widgets
  • iCloud Backup and Restore
Features
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School Timetable is the most easy to use, yet versatile scheduling app for students of school, college or university. Easily keep track of your weekly school schedule and events like homework assignments, exams and quizzes in this beautiful tracker accompanied by an Apple Watch app. Check out the following features which makes School Timetable the most complete schedule organizer app for students: - Free version lets you use all features! - Simply swipe left and right to see all weekdays - Color coded classes - Add room and location, professor name, phone number, email and other information for each class with notes - Classes show break times and conflict time to next class - Multiple week timetable - If you have a very mixed up schedule with the same class at different times on different days, no need to add the same class multiple times. Simply add a variation and choose the days and time. Variations can be given a name too! - Reminder notifications can be set to remind you X minutes before the class where X can be set as 5, 10, 15...55 minutes. - Support for Apple Watch app and many complications - Interactive large widget for home screen for iOS 17+ devices. Legacy widget is still supported on older devices which can be added using steps described at the bottom. - Setup reminders for upcoming events, exams and homework assignments. These reminders will remind you a week before, 2 days before, 1 day before and the morning of the event to keep you on top of your game! - Beautiful landscape view of the entire week at once (Just tap the fullscreen landscape button on top) - Accent theme color settings - No need to unlock your phone as it comes with a lockscreen widget for all your classes and tasks - Force touch the Apple Watch app to change weeks and Tasks - Ability to customize the number of weeks between 1-4 and auto-switch weeks - Ability to customize reminder ringtone - Save timetable as image in photos. Tap the full screen button on top right and there you will see the button to save as image. - Export timetable - Search classes, tasks, professor, room, notes etc. Search screen can also be used to edit reminders of all classes and tasks at a common place. - App detects emails, sites, phone numbers and addresses in the notes and opens them in respective apps - multiple email and maps clients are supported - iCloud Backup and Restore! Tap the hamburger menu button on top left and tap "Backup to iCloud" from side menu. On another device signed in with same iCloud account, tap the "Restore from iCloud" button. Steps for legacy widget for older devices: - Now you can strikethrough your tasks when they are done by either tapping the done button next to the task name or swiping horizontally on it. Tasks marked Done won't receive notifications. - The app now supports importing timetable which has been exported from the app. - Updated the UI for selecting colors for classes and themes. Also added many new colors. - NOTE regarding widget on iOS 14+: 1. Unlock phone 2. Swipe left to the widget screen 3. Scroll all the way to the bottom 4. Tap the "Edit" button 5. Don't search for the widget. Scroll to the bottom again. 6. Tap "Customize" at the bottom. 7. Look for "School Timetable" in the list and add it. This should give you the widget. Reviews: "This is dope **2 clapping emojis**" - Sarah "It looks good" - Tom "That's dope dude!!" - Rachel "So clean man, nice **thumbs up emoji**" - Nathan If you find this app useful, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. You can use all features including unlimited classes and tasks for free! Yes, free version lets you use all features. However, I am a small indie developer and your one-time-only purchase helps pay for yearly development fee and lets me keep supporting the app. No subscriptions! Thank you for your support. If you have any feature suggestions, bug reports or just wanna say good job, email me at: pran@pranapps.com

Screenshots

Simple Timetable4 screens
School Timetable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: School Timetable at 4.5 against Simple Timetable's 2.8. School Timetable also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months). Simple Timetable's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price and review sentiment 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. School Timetable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Simple Timetable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

School Timetable holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Timetable has 438 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Simple Timetable's written reviews are positive against 68% of School Timetable's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Timetable ships an update every 7 months, School Timetable weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Simple Timetable versus School Timetable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple TimetableSchool Timetable
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (10 ratings)4.5 (438 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.1% of reviews — better68.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10438 — better
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developergiseong kimPranoy Chowdhury

Customer experience

Simple Timetable

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

School Timetable

All ratings438 ratings
Positive88.4%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative24.0%

Bugs and requests

Simple Timetable

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

School Timetable

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Inconsistent behavior when adding/editing classes
  • Notifications not always working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add widgets for better visibility
  • Improve notification system and reminders
  • Allow more flexibility in setting class schedules
  • Integrate with other calendar/productivity apps
  • Add support for macOS and iPad

In-app purchases

None

Simple Timetable

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

School Timetable

One-time1
  • School Timetable Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Simple Timetable free?
Simple Timetable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is School Timetable free?
School Timetable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Simple Timetable or School Timetable?
School Timetable is rated higher. Simple Timetable averages 2.8 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while School Timetable averages 4.5 from 438 ratings.
Do Simple Timetable or School Timetable have ads?
Simple Timetable shows ads; School Timetable does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Timetable or School Timetable?
Simple Timetable ships an update every 7 months, and School Timetable weekly. Most recently, Simple Timetable was updated on October 4, 2026 and School Timetable on September 26, 2026.

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