Comparison

eSVShare vs SiYuan

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

Head to head
About

eSVShare

Easily share content, images, and videos across school communication channels. Connect with your school community through your app, social media, website, voice dial, text, or email.

Highlights
  • Share content, images, and video
  • Cross-channel communication
  • School and district integration
  • Voice dial, text, and email sharing
  • Connect with school community
Features
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With eSVShare by eSchoolView, you can make magic happen! With just a few clicks anytime and from anywhere, you can easily share content, images and video across all of your school or district's communication channels including your app by eSchoolView, social media, website and by voice dial, text or email. Connecting with your school community has never been easier! eSchoolView builds websites and creates educational management software for schools and school districts across the nation, including public, private, faith-based and charter systems. The company was founded in 2008 and has seen significant growth. Ranked for the second consecutive year on the Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies, eSchoolView (1907) also works with a number of educational organizations throughout the states in an effort to build meaningful partnerships and networks within the industry. Founded in Columbus, Ohio, eSchoolView has offices in Charlotte, North Carolina and Fountain Hills, Arizona. We also develop products on behalf of school systems across the country to improve efficiency and increase parent engagement. Our newest product OneView is the only solution available that integrates parent portal features, athletic forms, online enrollment for new student and forms for currently enrolled students in one complete package. eSchoolView provides a number of other solutions to help school districts generate revenue, manage facilities and send instant safety alert notifications.

About

SiYuan

A privacy-focused personal knowledge management system that allows offline use and encrypted data synchronization. It combines blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to help users organize and refine their thoughts.

Highlights
  • Privacy-first design
  • Offline data storage
  • End-to-end encrypted sync
  • Block-based organization
  • Outline structuring
  • Bidirectional linking
Features
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SiYuan is a privacy-first personal knowledge management system that supports complete offline use, as well as end-to-end encrypted data sync. Fuse blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to refactor your thinking.

Screenshots

eSVShare3 screens
SiYuan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SiYuan at 4.0 against eSVShare's 2.0. SiYuan also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 1). eSVShare's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. SiYuan sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. eSVShare asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SiYuan holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SiYuan has 29 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

eSVShare ships an update every 2 months, SiYuan weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
eSVShare versus SiYuan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereSVShareSiYuan
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (29 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings129 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB419 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperInfinite Cohesion, LTD.Yunnan Liandi Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

eSVShare

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

SiYuan

All ratings29 ratings
Positive75.9%
Neutral3.4%
Negative20.7%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative15.0%

In-app purchases

None

eSVShare

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

SiYuan

One-time2
  • PRO Features$79.99
  • Subscription$188.99

Questions

Is eSVShare free?
eSVShare is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SiYuan free?
SiYuan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, eSVShare or SiYuan?
SiYuan is rated higher. eSVShare averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while SiYuan averages 4.0 from 29 ratings.
Do eSVShare or SiYuan have ads?
Neither eSVShare nor SiYuan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eSVShare or SiYuan?
eSVShare ships an update every 2 months, and SiYuan weekly. Most recently, eSVShare was updated on October 2, 2026 and SiYuan on October 15, 2026.

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