Studious vs School Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Studious
Organize your student life with this app. It allows collaborative tracking of course assignments and individual progress monitoring. Features include schedule management, private study planning, and class-specific chat rooms.
- Collaborative course and assignment tracking
- Individual progress and grade monitoring
- Private study and activity planning
- Class-specific chat rooms
- Schedule management
- GPA tracking
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Track your course work collaboratively. Track your progress individually. Studious is an all-in-one app built to keep student life organized. Studious uses the cloud technology to allow collaborative tracking of your courses and course deliverables. You no longer need to enter every detail individually. Studious lets you - manage your course schedule - collaboratively track assignments, tests, labs, etc. Think Wikipedia as an example! Any assigned-work entered by one student can be seen by all students in the class, thus (i) reducing the data entry work, and (ii) giving you the ability to know precisely when/what is due. - privately track your progress in each class (scores, completion status, grades so far, etc.) - privately make study plans on when to work on what, even planning your extra-curricular activities (meetings, clubs, exercise/work-out) - a chat room for each class for those late night questions with fellow students - track your grades/GPA over the terms - know your daily schedule at a glance so you are always on top of your work - your schedule, scores, grades, study-plans, etc. remain completely private Designed exclusively for college and high-school students.
School Assistant
This app helps students organize their academic life by tracking homework, tests, and class schedules. It provides a dedicated space for class information, website links, and customizable reminders. The app offers seamless integration across Apple devices and a user-friendly interface.
- Homework and test tracking
- Class schedule management
- Class information storage
- Website link saving
- Customizable reminders
- Apple Watch app integration
- iCloud data syncing
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School Assistant by Sun Apps is a simple but powerful school planner app. It allows you to quickly and easily keep track of your homework and tests, manage your schedule, save all your class info, quickly access saved websites, and more. First, as a student myself, I know how hard it can be to pay for these types of apps. So, School Assistant is 100% free: no subscriptions, no paywalls, no premium features, and no ads! There is a tip jar if you feel like supporting, though (these are the in-app purchases the App Store shows). Schoolwork: - Manage your upcoming assignments and tests - Sort by due date, class, category, alphabetically, or manually - Add a related class, due date, links, and notes - Add Subtasks to your schoolwork to keep track of large assignments - Schedule reminders - Highlight upcoming and overdue schoolwork - Keep an entire archive of your completed schoolwork - View how many assignments/tests you have right from your Home Screen with Widgets Schedule: - Keep track of your classes for every day - Add associated teacher and room information (or, add a link for online classes) - Automatically switch days based on the day of the week - Automatically switch between two weeks (great for A/B week schedules) - Manually switch between up to ten weeks - See your current class and next class on the Dashboard and with Widgets Classes: - A dedicated place to manage all your class info - Store your teacher’s name and email - Store a title, class code, links, and notes for each class - Assign an icon to each class, which also shows in Schoolwork Apple Watch App: - Super quick access to your most important information - View your Schoolwork, automatically sorted into assignments and tests - View your Schedule for any day - View your current and next classes, and how long you have left - Set a custom theme color to match your Watch, band, or outfit - Designed for quick interactions Other features: - Save website bookmarks for quick and easy access right in the app - Set a custom accent color - Theme the entire app with a color of your choosing - Over 20 app icon choices - Liquid Glass design - Full and automatic data syncing over iCloud - Tight iOS and iPadOS integration with support for features like Slide Over and Split View, iPad cursor, keyboard shortcuts, system sidebars, Home Screen widgets, Dynamic Text, and multi-window support - Support for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro - Designed with quick and easy usability in mind - Full support for Dark, Tinted, and Clear Home Screen modes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: School Assistant at 88% against Studious's 0%. School Assistant also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.8) and ratings volume (4.7K vs 8). Studious's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price and ads 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. School Assistant sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Studious asks for nothing beyond the download.
School Assistant holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Assistant has 4.7K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Studious's written reviews are positive against 88% of School Assistant's.
Studious ships an update fortnightly, School Assistant every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studious | School Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (4.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 4.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 538 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anishu, Inc. | Sun Apps, LLC |
Customer experience
Studious
School Assistant
Bugs and requests
Studious
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
School Assistant
Reported bugs
3 issues- Schedule details disappearing when switching days
- App crashing on certain devices after updates
- Widgets not displaying information correctly
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar view for assignments and tests
- Ability to mark assignments as in-progress
- Syncing across multiple devices
- More customization options for widgets
- Integration with other school apps like Canvas
In-app purchases
Studious
No in-app purchases
School Assistant
- Tip Jar – $0.99$0.99
- Tip Jar – $1.99$1.99
- Tip Jar – $2.99$2.99
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- Tip Jar – $3.99$3.99
- Tip Jar – $4.99$4.99
- Tip Jar – $0.99$400.00
Questions
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