School Assistant vs School Schedules App
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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~ Featured by Apple, 9to5Mac, and Macrumors ~ ~ “A+ Apps for Students”, “Apps We Love Right Now”, “23 Apps for 2023”, and more from Apple 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 your upcoming schoolwork and classes right from your Home Screen / Desktop 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 Siri AI and Shortcuts: – Ask Siri about your schoolwork and classes – Create and modify your schoolwork with Siri – Ask Siri about on-screen content in the app – Access, create, and modify your schoolwork and classes from the Shortcuts app 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, multi-window support, and full iPhone Duo 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
School Schedules App
This app helps students know if school is in session, what class period it is, and how much time is left. It offers widgets for various Apple devices, including Apple Watch and macOS, to display schedule information and countdowns.
- Determine if school is in session
- Identify current class period
- Show time remaining in class
- Display passing period status
- Home screen and lock screen widgets
- Apple Watch and macOS support
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The School Schedules App provides an simple way to determine if school is still in session and what class period it currently is as well if it is passing period. It displays a countdown with how much is remaining so you know exactly what class period you should be in on your schedule. You can this in the app or you can use one the widgets. The widgets can displayed on your iPad home screen, iPad lock screen, iPhone home screen, iPhone lock screen, Apple Watch Faces, Apple Watch Smart Stack, macOS Desktop and macOS Notification Center. NOTE: With this version, only Porter Township School Corporation schedules are supported, but there is a plan to add support for custom school schedules in the future
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: School Schedules App at none against School Assistant's 5. School Schedules App also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). School Assistant's advantage is ratings volume (4.8K vs 1). 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
Both are free to download. School Assistant sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. School Schedules App asks for nothing beyond the download.
School Schedules App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: School Assistant has 4.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
School Assistant ships an update every 2 months, School Schedules App every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Assistant | School Schedules App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 538 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sun Apps, LLC | Porter Township Schools Corp. |
Customer experience
School Assistant
School Schedules App
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
School Schedules App
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
School Schedules App
No in-app purchases
Questions
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