School Assistant vs CBEST Master Prep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
CBEST Master Prep
Prepare for the California Basic Educational Skills Test with a comprehensive study tool. Access hundreds of practice questions with detailed explanations, build custom exams, and utilize advanced test-taking strategies. This app offers offline access and lifetime updates for continuous learning.
- Hundreds of practice questions
- Detailed rationales for answers
- Custom exam builder
- Advanced test-taking strategies
- Offline access
- Progress reports
- Free lifetime updates
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CBEST (LATEST VERSION) California Basic Educational Skills Test --- The California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) was developed to meet requirements of laws relating to credentialing and employment. This test requirement does not replace any of the other requirements of subject matter knowledge, professional preparation, and practice teaching or field experience applicable to the issuance of credentials. The CBEST is designed to test basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills found to be important for the job of an educator; the test is not designed to measure the ability to teach those skills. App Features: - Hundreds of questions and detailed rationales for each Q&A - Multi Learning Options (Virtual, Actual and Training Options) - Custom exam builder (Create your own practice sessions) - Advanced test taking strategy - No Internet required - No In-App-Purchases - No In-App Downloads, except updates! - No Signup or sing-in, just download and start learning - FREE LIFETIME UPDATES - Detailed history and progress reports -- © All rights reserved. We are not affiliated with nor endorsed by any testing agency
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: School Assistant at Free against CBEST Master Prep's $19.99. School Assistant also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (4.6K vs 1). CBEST Master Prep's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On 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
School Assistant is free to download; CBEST Master Prep costs $19.99 up front. School Assistant sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. CBEST Master Prep asks for nothing beyond the download.
School Assistant holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Assistant has 4.6K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | School Assistant | CBEST Master Prep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 538 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sun Apps, LLC | OVERTECHS |
Customer experience
School Assistant
CBEST Master Prep
Bugs and 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
CBEST Master Prep
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
CBEST Master Prep
No in-app purchases








