Comparison

Smart Diary 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

Smart Diary

This student planner helps organize your academic life by tracking homework, tests, and absences. It includes tools for time management, grade tracking, and setting academic goals. Customize your experience with themes and access advanced features through an in-app purchase.

Highlights
  • Add homework, tests, and notes
  • Manage absences and count by type
  • Time management organizer
  • Track and manage grades
  • Set academic goals
  • Customizable timetable
  • Notes with text formatting
Features
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Smart Diary is a complete student planner / school diary, with this application you can: • add homework, tests and free notes on the Diary • manage your absences • use the Organizer, a tool that help you managing the time dedicated to tasks Upgrading to the Premium version (through in-app purchase) you will be able to: • manage your weekly timetable • manage your grades, set goals • customize the app appearance with themes Here are all the functions. 1. Subjects and Timetable • For every subject you can choose a color, add the Professor, and other notes • Set the timetable selecting the subject and the lesson type. You can customize the timetable changing the maximum hours, the end of the week, set the hour in the 'hour:minute' format • Multiple Timetables • Print your weekly timetable 2. Tasks and Absences • Mark a task as important or done, set the required time, set a reminder, associate an emoji • View your tasks in different ways; classic diary with pages or list grouped by day • Reorder the tasks to better organize the Diary, just tap and hold on a task • Mark absences. Count absences by type and period • Memos section 3. Time Management • Organizer - a powerful but simple tool to schedule tasks, it allow you to specify the required time and schedule the task over multiple days. Calculation of the daily work, swipe and consult the days with the bar chart • Time - a pure time management tool. Create work session with customized countdowns 4. Grades Management • Multiple evaluation systems supported (numeric 0 - 10, alphabetical A - F, etc) • Grades chart and filter by grade type / period • Check your general average 5. Goals • Set a grade as a goal, by subject and grade type • Calculate the required grade to reach your goal or the sufficiency 6. Notes • Dedicated editor to write notes • Text formatting in bold, italic, highlighted • History of the previous text reviews 7. General features and customization • Set a reminder notification for tasks, you can select a rapid reminder or a specific date • 3D Touch Shortcut by pressing deeply on the app icon • Customize the appereance of the Diary section with themes 8. Widget and backup • Widget with tasks overview for the following day, timetable widget • Data and Preferences Backup on iCloud 9. Apple Watch • Add new tasks dictating in natural language • View tasks and timetable • Mark a task as done The app is free with limitations, you can unlock all the features through in-app purchase.

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: - 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. Trial version lets you track up to 3 classes and 3 tasks. A one-time-only purchase lets you track unlimited classes and tasks. It also helps pay for yearly development fee and lets me keep supporting the app while keeping it ad-free. No subscriptions. Thank you for your support. 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. If you have any feature suggestions, bug reports or just wanna say good job, email me at: pran@pranapps.com

Screenshots

Smart Diary4 screens
School Timetable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: School Timetable at weekly against Smart Diary's every 2 months. School Timetable also leads on ratings volume (439 vs 43). Smart Diary's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Smart Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and School Timetable sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Timetable has 439 ratings behind it against 43, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Smart Diary'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

Smart Diary ships an update every 2 months, School Timetable weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Smart Diary versus School Timetable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart DiarySchool Timetable
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (43 ratings) — better4.5 (439 ratings)
Positive reviews65.9% of reviews68.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43439 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatteo D'IgnazioPranoy Chowdhury

Customer experience

Smart Diary

All ratings42 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.4%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive65.9%
Neutral18.2%
Negative15.9%

School Timetable

All ratings439 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative8.4%
Written reviews100 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative24.0%

Bugs and requests

Smart Diary

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

1 purchases

Smart Diary

One-time1
  • Premium version$2.99
1 purchases

School Timetable

One-time1
  • School Timetable Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Smart Diary free?
Smart Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is School Timetable free?
School Timetable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Diary or School Timetable?
Smart Diary is rated higher. Smart Diary averages 4.8 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while School Timetable averages 4.5 from 439 ratings.
Do Smart Diary or School Timetable have ads?
Neither Smart Diary nor School Timetable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Diary or School Timetable?
Smart Diary ships an update every 2 months, and School Timetable weekly. Most recently, Smart Diary was updated on November 2, 2026 and School Timetable on November 6, 2026.

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