Comparison

Simple Timetable vs Slate

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

Slate

Features
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Slate keeps your classes, exams and deadlines in one calm place and makes sure you actually show up. TODAY, AT A GLANCE See what's happening right now with a live card: how long is left, where it is, and a Join button for online classes. Mark attendance with one tap and keep a running tally per class. CLASSES THAT REPEAT Add a class once with its weekdays, time, room or meeting link, colour and icon. It shows up on the right days in Today, in the Day and Week schedule, and in the Up Next widget. EXAMS AND DEADLINES Exams get a countdown. Assignments, forum posts and anything with a due date become reminders. Upcoming groups everything by day so you always know what's next. REMINDERS THAT LAND Choose several reminders per event , 15 minutes before, at class time, a day before an exam. Class-time and exam-time alerts are Time Sensitive, so they can break through Focus. REAL ALARMS (iOS 26) Turn any class or exam into an alarm. It rings like the Clock app - through Silent mode and Focus - at the moments you pick: before, at, or even after the start. UNIVERSITY SYNC Connect your university's Moodle account once - elearning.org.bd is set up by default, and any other Moodle site works - and Slate pulls your assignments, quizzes and deadlines into your schedule with reminders, then keeps them in sync. It's read-only and your login lives only in the iOS Keychain. BUILT FOR IPHONE Home Screen widget, dark mode, a Liquid Glass tab bar on iOS 26, native pickers and haptics. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No cloud. No analytics, no ads, no trackers. Your data is stored on your iPhone and never sent to us. Delete the app, or use Delete All Data, and it's gone. Slate is an independent app and is not affiliated with any university or with Moodle.

Screenshots

Simple Timetable4 screens
Slate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Slate at none against Simple Timetable's shown. Slate also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Simple Timetable ships an update every 7 months, Slate daily. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Simple Timetable versus Slate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSimple TimetableSlate
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews72.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developergiseong kimMUSABBIR AL MOMIT

In-app purchases

None

Simple Timetable

No in-app purchases

None

Slate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Simple Timetable free?
Simple Timetable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Slate free?
Slate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Simple Timetable or Slate have ads?
Simple Timetable shows ads; Slate does not.
Which is updated more often, Simple Timetable or Slate?
Simple Timetable ships an update every 7 months, and Slate daily. Most recently, Simple Timetable was updated on November 2, 2026 and Slate on October 31, 2026.

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