Smart Diary vs School Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
School Planner
Manage your academic life with this digital diary and schedule manager. Track classes, homework, grades, and teacher information. Stay organized with smart reminders and visual progress charts.
- Flexible schedule cycles (1 or 2 weeks)
- Customizable study days
- Smart grades and GPA tracking
- Teacher and subject database
- Live bell timer
- Advanced homework assignments (photos, audio)
- iCloud sync across devices
- Home screen widgets
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Class Timetable is your perfect digital diary and smart schedule manager. Forget about lost notes and forgotten homework. The app is designed for school and college students who want to keep their educational process under full control. Key Features: - Flexible Schedule: Supports both one-week and two-week class cycles. - Custom Setup: Choose your study days, and the schedule grid will automatically adjust to your routine. - Smart Grades & Statistics: Choose your grading system, log your marks, and track your academic performance. Visual charts, grade dynamics, and automatic GPA calculation will show you the real picture of your studies. - Teachers Database: Save names, contacts, classrooms, and subjects of your teachers. All important information is now always at your fingertips. - Live Bell Timer: A convenient countdown to the start or end of a lesson right on your screen. - Advanced Homework: Add not just text, but also whiteboard photos or quick audio notes to your assignments. - Handy Calendar: Navigate through dates with a couple of taps to view history or add homework for any day ahead. - iCloud Sync: Your data is always with you. Add a task on your iPhone, and it will instantly appear on your other devices. - Various Widgets: Keep track of the current lesson, time until the bell, and daily schedule right from your home screen without opening the app. The core features of the app are completely free. For users who want to get the most out of it, there is a Class Timetable PRO subscription. It removes limits on the number of homework assignments and grades you can add, and unlocks full access to all premium features for maximum productivity. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Smart Diary at none against School Planner's shown. Smart Diary also leads on review sentiment (66% vs 50%) and device support (4 vs 2). School Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Smart Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and School Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Smart Diary against 4.6 for School Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 42 and 21 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Smart Diary's written reviews are positive against 50% of School Planner's.
Smart Diary ships an update every 2 months, School Planner every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Diary | School Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (42 ratings) — better | 4.6 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matteo D'Ignazio | Oleksii Diachenko |
Customer experience
Smart Diary
School Planner
In-app purchases
Smart Diary
- Premium version$2.99
School Planner
- Monthly subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual subscription1 Month trial$9.991 Year
- Timetable PRO$4.99
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