Comparison

Smart Diary vs Schooly

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

Schooly

Manage your academic life with this planner app. Organize schedules, timetables, to-dos, and assignments. Features include deadline reminders, attendance tracking, and customizable themes for students of all levels.

Highlights
  • Multiple schedule support
  • Color-coded classes
  • To-do, assignment, and exam management
  • Deadline reminders
  • Attendance rate calculation
  • Customizable themes
  • Widgets for upcoming classes and tasks
Features
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Enrich your academic life with our sleek and functional school planner app!! You'll get everything you need to manage school schedules, timetables, to-dos and assignments. We designed Schooly based on research with actual students in middle school, high school and university. Schooly supports you in all stages of academic life! KEY FEATURES ・Support for multiple schedules ・Color-coded classes ・To-do, assignment and exam management ・Deadline reminders ・Attendance rate calculation ・Attendance record ・Notes ・Easy-to-use class registration ・Beautiful and colorful themes ・Upcoming Classes Widget ・Upcoming Tasks Widget NEW: ・iCloud sync across all your devices (premium) ・Whole-week & lock screen widgets ・Class-start reminders ・Custom class colors Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://schooly.rocks/en/privacy_policy.html

Screenshots

Smart Diary4 screens
Schooly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Smart Diary at none against Schooly's shown. Smart Diary also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and device support (4 vs 2). Schooly's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (406 vs 43). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Schooly sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 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: Schooly has 406 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 74% of Schooly'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, Schooly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Smart Diary versus Schooly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart DiarySchooly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (43 ratings) — better4.5 (406 ratings)
Positive reviews65.9% of reviews73.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings43406 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatteo D'IgnazioArtefact Inc.

Customer experience

Smart Diary

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

Schooly

All ratings399 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews121 reviews
Positive73.6%
Neutral17.4%
Negative9.1%

Bugs and requests

Smart Diary

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Schooly

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Issues with saving and loading class schedules
  • Problems with marking tasks as complete

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add support for 12-hour time format
  • Implement a multi-week schedule option
  • Allow customization of class durations
  • Introduce a dark mode and larger widgets
  • Add iCloud sync and sharing capabilities

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smart Diary

One-time1
  • Premium version$2.99
4 purchases

Schooly

Subscriptions2
  • Schooly Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Schooly Premium Annual$11.991 Year
One-time2
  • Schooly Premium$2.99
  • Schooly Premium Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Smart Diary free?
Smart Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Schooly free?
Schooly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Diary or Schooly?
Smart Diary is rated higher. Smart Diary averages 4.8 out of 5 from 43 ratings, while Schooly averages 4.5 from 406 ratings.
Do Smart Diary or Schooly have ads?
Schooly shows ads; Smart Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Diary or Schooly?
Smart Diary ships an update every 2 months, and Schooly every 5 days. Most recently, Smart Diary was updated on November 2, 2026 and Schooly on November 11, 2026.

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