Comparison

Smart Diary vs School Planner, Class Schedule

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 Planner, Class Schedule

Organize your academic life with this app. Manage classes, assignments, and exams with intuitive tracking and timely notifications. Stay on top of your studies and never miss a deadline.

Highlights
  • Organize classes, assignments, and exams
  • Track assignments by date, course, or priority
  • Daily agenda view
  • Customizable notifications for classes and assignments
  • Mark assignments as completed or incomplete
Features
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Sunday night, you set up your timetable once. From then on School Planner already knows your week — which classes, in which rooms, what's due, what's next — and it tells you before each one, not after. For middle school, high school, college and university. YOUR WEEK, THE WAY IT ACTUALLY RUNS • A real timetable grid — full week, weekdays only, or two days at a time • Classes that repeat weekly, or every two weeks on odd and even weeks • Lectures, labs, seminars, practicals, study groups and online classes, kept apart • Drop a single session when it's called off, and undo it if you change your mind • Add your holidays once and the classes on those days drop out of your week, every year • A colour, a room and a teacher for every subject HOMEWORK, EXAMS AND EVERYTHING ELSE • Homework with due dates, notes, and a star for the ones that actually matter • Exams kept separate from homework, grouped by date, with an Upcoming filter • Tasks for the things that aren't schoolwork • Sorted by done and not done — anything overdue is flagged so it can't hide REMINDERS THAT SAY WHEN, AND LET YOU ACT • 10 minutes before every class. 30 minutes before every exam • On the morning something is due, plus any earlier reminder you choose • Mark homework done straight from the notification — or push it back an hour, or to tomorrow • Online class? Open the link straight from the notification ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • An Agenda widget in three sizes: what's left today, what's coming tomorrow • Press and hold the app icon to add homework, an exam or a task in one step • A calendar strip that marks every day with something scheduled THE TERM, AND YOUR TEACHERS • Set your term dates and see the percent done and the days left • Office hours, rooms and contact details for every teacher — import them from Contacts • Sign in and your week follows you to your other devices and to the web planner Built for iPhone and iPad. Works offline. Undoes anything you delete by mistake. School Planner is free, with ads. Premium removes the ads and unlocks the timetable grid, the larger widgets and the web planner — monthly or yearly, with a free trial on the yearly plan. Everything else is free, within limits on how much you can add. Privacy Policy: https://schoolplanner.me/privacy Terms & Conditions: https://schoolplanner.me/terms

Screenshots

Smart Diary4 screens
School Planner, Class Schedule4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Smart Diary at none against School Planner, Class Schedule's shown. Smart Diary also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (42 vs 5). School Planner, Class Schedule's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (78% vs 66%). On price, 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 School Planner, Class Schedule sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 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 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Diary has 42 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 66% of Smart Diary's written reviews are positive against 78% of School Planner, Class Schedule'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 Planner, Class Schedule every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Smart Diary versus School Planner, Class Schedule: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart DiarySchool Planner, Class Schedule
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (42 ratings) — better4.4 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews65.9% of reviews77.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings42 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — 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 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatteo D'IgnazioSwazer Ltd.

Customer experience

Smart Diary

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

School Planner, Class Schedule

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive77.8%
Neutral7.4%
Negative14.8%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smart Diary

One-time1
  • Premium version$2.99
16 purchases

School Planner, Class Schedule

Subscriptions8
  • Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
Show 5 more
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$6.991 Year
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Yearly$59.991 Year
One-time8
  • 1 Year$3.99
  • College Life$12.99
  • Lifetime$19.99
Show 5 more
  • Lifetime$32.99
  • Lifetime$39.99
  • Lifetime$49.99
  • Lifetime$79.99
  • Lifetime$119.99

Questions

Is Smart Diary free?
Smart Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is School Planner, Class Schedule free?
School Planner, Class Schedule is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Diary or School Planner, Class Schedule?
Smart Diary is rated higher. Smart Diary averages 4.8 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while School Planner, Class Schedule averages 4.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Smart Diary or School Planner, Class Schedule have ads?
School Planner, Class Schedule shows ads; Smart Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Diary or School Planner, Class Schedule?
Smart Diary ships an update every 2 months, and School Planner, Class Schedule every 2 weeks. Most recently, Smart Diary was updated on October 24, 2026 and School Planner, Class Schedule on October 20, 2026.

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