Comparison

School Timetable Planner vs NihonGO Manabi

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

School Timetable Planner

Organize your academic week with a customizable timetable and smart alerts. View your schedule at a glance with home and lock screen widgets, ensuring you never miss a class. Designed for students to efficiently manage their school and college commitments.

Highlights
  • Customizable weekly timetable
  • Color-coded periods
  • Smart class alerts
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Support for alternating weeks
  • Fast subject and teacher setup
Features
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Plan your week, stay on time, and keep every class visible at a glance. Create a clear school timetable, color-code lessons, add rooms and teachers, and turn on reminders before class starts. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show what is happening now and what comes next without opening the app. WHY STUDENTS USE IT • Fast setup for subjects, rooms, teachers, and colors • Flexible alternating weeks for rotating schedules • Widgets for current and upcoming classes • Reminders before lessons begin • Quick edits for times, notes, and rooms • Private by design: your timetable stays on your device Made for school, college, and study routines. Information about the auto-renewable nature of the subscription - The price of the subscription is $4.99 per week or $14.99 per year. Every month/year your subscription is auto-renewed. - Subscription automatically renews if automatic renewal is not turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period - Charging for renewal of subscription takes place within 24 hours before the end of the current period. - After the end of the trial period, the monthly subscription will begin with the price accepted in your country - Update, manage and unsubscribe according to Apple's rules in your iTunes account settings - You can cancel your subscription via this URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202039 - Privacy Policy: https://lykovstudio.io/privacy - Terms of Use: https://lykovstudio.io/terms

About

NihonGO Manabi

Features
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NihonGO Manabi is the intermediate Japanese textbook: the book that gets you over the hardest wall in the language, from a finished beginner course to reading real Japanese. Beginner textbooks are everywhere; intermediate ones are rare, and a complete free one did not exist. This is it. Two full books are in the app today, 学び I and 学び II, and the third is on its way as a free update. ONE CONTINUING STORY Follow a young reporter through her first two years on the job: twenty-four chapters of authentic native Japanese. Year one at a small newspaper in Kamakura, year two at a national daily in Tokyo. In every chapter, the first text is her reporting, the second the article she files. Furigana is one tap away, and an English line sits under every sentence on a switch you control. EVERY WORD IS A LIVE CARD Tap any underlined word and its card opens: meaning, reading, the kanji it is built from, an example sentence you can hear. Conjugated forms find their own dictionary form, so 歩いていた and 遅れたら open just like anything else. WHAT THE TWO BOOKS TEACH · Grammar: 194 N3 patterns in Book I and 175 more in Book II, which finishes N3 and covers every N2 pattern. Taught as families rather than scattered points, so you learn which one to reach for. · Kanji: 254 N3 kanji in Book I, 247 in Book II, which completes the N3 set and opens N2. Each is introduced by the chapter that needs it and can be written by hand. · Words: about 1,580 new words across the two books, most useful first, each one a card. Each book opens with a plain statement of what you will have learned and where that leaves you for the JLPT. SIX ROOMS IN EVERY CHAPTER ① an overview · ② the words you are about to meet, as tappable tiles · ③ the text, with audio · ④ the grammar behind it, in contrast tables · ⑤ a workbook where you write the Japanese yourself · ⑥ the chapter's kanji, written by hand. A WORKBOOK THAT ASKS YOU TO WRITE 4,299 exercises across the twenty-four chapters. You write the sentence, then see how it should have been written. Free, as often as you like. HANDWRITING, CORRECTED STROKE BY STROKE Write a kanji with your finger or an Apple Pencil and it is checked for shape, stroke order, direction and missing strokes, and you are told which part went wrong. Entirely on your device. IT COMES BACK A word or kanji you keep peeking at, a grammar pattern you keep getting wrong: all of it returns in a spaced review queue that schedules itself, and the writing pad keeps its own list of the kanji you miss. AN APPENDIX THAT IS ACTUALLY USEFUL Reference tables for conjugation, a grammar index from N5 to N1, counters, keigo, transitive pairs, kana and radicals; printable word and kanji indexes for each book; and a dictionary with three scopes: this book, every card in the system, and a full Japanese–English dictionary of 218,000 entries. ONE CARD REPOSITORY, THREE APPS The cards come from the repository that also powers NihonGO Dominos (the drill) and NihonGO Dokusho (the reader). Each app carries its own selection, but a card is the same card wherever it appears. BUILT FOR iPHONE AND iPAD On an iPhone it goes everywhere and the writing pad works with a finger; on an iPad, text, cards and contents sit side by side and a Pencil turns the pad into a desk. Also on Apple silicon Macs, better for reading than writing. WORKS COMPLETELY OFFLINE Every chapter, card and audio clip is on your device the moment you install it. Both books work with no connection at all. COMPLETELY FREE No price, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account, no tracking. Book III arrives as a free update. Your progress stays on your device and follows you to your other devices through your own private iCloud. OPTIONAL: YOUR OWN AI TUTOR Connect your own Anthropic account and the workbook will mark what you wrote, explain why, and repair it into natural Japanese. Entirely optional, needs an internet connection, and clearly marked wherever it costs anything. Everything else works without it.

Screenshots

School Timetable Planner4 screens
NihonGO Manabi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NihonGO Manabi at none against School Timetable Planner's 4. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. School Timetable Planner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. NihonGO Manabi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
School Timetable Planner versus NihonGO Manabi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool Timetable PlannerNihonGO Manabi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB1.3 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLYKOV STUDIO LTDJUERGEN WOLFGANG HAMMER

In-app purchases

4 purchases

School Timetable Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Отключить рекламу$0.99
  • Премиум навсегда$34.99
None

NihonGO Manabi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Timetable Planner free?
School Timetable Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NihonGO Manabi free?
NihonGO Manabi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do School Timetable Planner or NihonGO Manabi have ads?
Neither School Timetable Planner nor NihonGO Manabi shows ads.

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