Comparison

Smart Diary vs 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

Timetable+

Organize your school, college, or work schedule and track homework tasks. This app offers customizable weekly views, reminders, and detailed statistics on your time spent and free time. Easily manage events and share your schedule with others.

Highlights
  • Customizable weekly schedules
  • Task reminders
  • Schedule statistics
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Shareable schedules
  • Dark mode
Features
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Timetable+ is a schedule and task manager to help add, manage and track all of your upcoming events and homework tasks. Great for anyone at school, college, university or work to help with your daily activities. Timetable+ features: • Repeatable unique weeks (1,2,3,4,5 or 6) • Weekend Days (On/Off) • Custom week indices (1,2,3,4,5,6) or (A,B,C,D,E,F) • iCloud synchronisation • Task Reminders • Task statistics/information (Total/Complete/Incomplete) • Overview of entire schedule week • See schedule statistics/Information • 252 unique background colors to choose from • Share schedule with family & friends • Dark Mode compatible Clean and simple look to make adding, managing, viewing and deleting events and homework tasks easy. Multiple pages to help you navigate through and get an overview of upcoming events and tasks. Get a complete look at your entire weeks schedule on one page displaying all your events and useful information about your week including: • Total Events • Average Events per day • Total time spent in events • Total Free time • Busiest day • Amount of days with events Download now for free, only available on the iOS App Store!

Screenshots

Smart Diary4 screens
Timetable+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Smart Diary at 4.8 against Timetable+'s 3.0. Smart Diary also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (42 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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 Timetable+ sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. 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 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Smart Diary has 42 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Smart Diary's written reviews are positive against 63% of Timetable+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Smart Diary versus Timetable+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart DiaryTimetable+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (42 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews65.9% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings42 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatteo D'IgnazioEthan Williams

Customer experience

Smart Diary

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

Timetable+

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smart Diary

One-time1
  • Premium version$2.99
4 purchases

Timetable+

One-time4
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Colors Pack$0.99
  • Pro Upgrade$0.99
Show 1 more
  • Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Smart Diary free?
Smart Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Timetable+ free?
Timetable+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Diary or Timetable+?
Smart Diary is rated higher. Smart Diary averages 4.8 out of 5 from 42 ratings, while Timetable+ averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Smart Diary or Timetable+ have ads?
Timetable+ shows ads; Smart Diary does not.
Which is updated more often, Smart Diary or Timetable+?
Smart Diary ships an update every 2 months, and Timetable+ every 2 months. Most recently, Smart Diary was updated on October 19, 2026 and Timetable+ on October 18, 2026.

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