Grade Control vs School planner (Diary)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grade Control
Easily track your school courses, assignments, and GPA. This app automatically calculates your GPA and helps you set and achieve grade goals by showing you what you need on future assignments. Manage your academic progress with customizable grade scales and assignment tracking.
- Automatic GPA calculation
- Set and track grade goals
- Course and assignment tracking
- Customizable grade scales
- Assignment due date notifications
- Weighted and non-weighted courses
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The Grade Control app is a convenient way to track school assignments, courses, and your GPA. GPA is calculated for you, so you'll always know what your grade is and what grade you need to reach your goal. GPA Know where you stand with automatic GPA calculation. Goals Set goal course grades and let Grade Control tell you what grade you need on future assignments. Courses Track courses and watch as both your overall GPA and semester GPA is automatically calculated. Assignments Track assignments or syllabus items. Get notifications or set calendar events when specific assignments are due and more. Customization Enter custom overall grade scales, course grade scales, schedules, weighted and non weighted courses, extra credit assignments and more. Privacy We believe privacy is a human right and do not collect any user data. And so much more... Terms of Service: https://kangostudios.com/#/terms Privacy Policy: https://kangostudios.com/#/privacy
School planner (Diary)
This app serves as an electronic school diary to help students track their grades and subjects. It automatically calculates averages and visually represents subject performance with color-coding. The app also includes a school timetable, agenda, and calendar for comprehensive organization.
- Subject and grade management
- Immediate average calculation
- School timetable
- Agenda
- Calendar
- Color-coded subject performance
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You will not longer have to be afraid to forget to check your school grades! Your electronic diary for the school! Enter the grades and get the arithmetic average instantly, it has never been so easy! The user interface is extremely simple and intuitive, subjects will be colored based on your average to help you better understand what you are doing well and in what are you having trouble! What are you waiting for? Go to try this application and let us know what you think! MAIN FUNCTIONS - Management of subjects and grades - Immediate calculation of the average - School timetable - Agenda - Calendar Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: School planner (Diary) at 4.7 against Grade Control's 4.2. School planner (Diary) also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Grade Control's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (495 vs 3). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Grade Control sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and School planner (Diary) sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
School planner (Diary) holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grade Control has 495 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Grade Control ships an update monthly, School planner (Diary) every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grade Control | School planner (Diary) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (495 ratings) | 4.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 495 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kango Studios LLC | Thomas Sambugaro |
Customer experience
Grade Control
School planner (Diary)
Bugs and requests
Grade Control
Reported bugs
3 issues- Assignments not saving properly
- Grades and progress resetting unexpectedly
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Add support for weighted grades and AP/advanced classes
- Improve syncing between devices
- Provide more detailed analytics and grade forecasting
School planner (Diary)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Grade Control
- Grade Control Pro Yearly$4.991 Year
- Grade Control Premium 6/Mo$5.996 Months
- Grade Control Premium 12/Mo$9.991 Year
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- Ultra - Yearly$9.991 Year
- Premium - Unlimited Grades$4.99
- GC Unlimited - Tip Large$19.99
School planner (Diary)
- Pro version$2.991 Year
- Pro Version$3.99
Questions
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