School Assistant vs StudyLess
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
StudyLess
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The must-have study app for high school and college. Add your class material or record a lecture, and AI makes your summaries, flashcards, quizzes and practice tests. ADD WHAT YOU HAVE Photograph your notes or a handout, or add a PDF, slides, a class recording, a YouTube lecture or a blank note. Each one opens right away as its own material, and AI fills it in unit by unit. Keep related materials in a folder. Your PDF summarizer, quiz maker, test maker and lecture recorder in one app. AI SUMMARIES Each material gets a clear summary by unit: study notes with page chips back to the source. The summary is yours to edit, or ask for a rewrite, with Undo. AI PRACTICE TESTS Add last year's test and yours follows its sections, question types, marks and time, with new questions from your notes. Each written answer is marked against every point of its scoring guide, with what you left out and a model answer. Exam prep from your own material: every practice test comes as a real paper, with multiple choice, short answer and written questions, each with its points. No past test? Pick your exam (AP, SAT, IB or your school's own test) and the questions follow its question types. Build one test across several materials. RECORD A LECTURE, GET THE SUMMARY Record a lecture where recording is allowed. When it ends, it becomes a summary and flashcards. A YouTube lecture link works too. AI QUIZZES AI writes a quiz from each material, with new questions rather than your cards again. Retake it as often as you like. AI FLASHCARDS Every material gets key terms and flashcards from what's on the page. Press start, stop anytime and continue where you left off. Or play them as Blocks or Match. A word list becomes word cards with meanings and examples. AI TUTOR Ask anything. The AI tutor knows the material you're in, and any you attach. MISTAKES Missed questions from practice tests, quizzes and blurting gather in Mistakes. Retry them, or try new questions on the same points; two right answers on different days clear one. BLURTING Pick a unit and write what you remember, typed or on paper. It's checked against your summary, and what you left out is pointed out. PODCAST Two AI voices talk your material through. Full episodes are Pro; Free gets one short listen a week. SPACED REPETITION, IF YOU WANT IT Turn on spaced repetition for a material and FSRS brings each card back just before you'd forget it. Cards to review gather in Review, and you choose how many new cards a day. Add a test date and you get reminders 7, 3 and 1 days before. ALSO INCLUDED A streak, a class link classmates can study without an account, dark mode and data export. Works on iPhone and iPad, with Home Screen widgets. No ads. FREE AND PRO Free: 2 uploads a week (a batch of photos or a PDF, a recording or a YouTube lecture), 2 practice tests a week and 20 AI tutor messages a day; each material's quiz comes with it, retaken as often as you like; new rounds share the week's 2 practice tests. Studying everything you've made is free and unlimited. StudyLess Pro adds far more each month: 150 uploads, 100 practice tests, 1,500 AI tutor messages, 40 podcast episodes and 30 hours of recording a month, within the fair-use limits in our Terms (lower during a free trial). Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: in the US, $49.99 a year with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, or $9.99 a month. Prices vary by country; the App Store shows yours, in your currency, before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when the free trial ends, or at confirmation of purchase without a trial. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it anytime in your App Store account settings. StudyLess uses AI, which can make mistakes: check its work against your material. Terms of Use: https://www.studyless.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.studyless.app/privacy Support: support@studyless.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StudyLess at every 6 days against School Assistant's every 2 months. StudyLess also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). School Assistant's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 and StudyLess sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
School Assistant ships an update every 2 months, StudyLess every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Assistant | StudyLess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 538 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sun Apps, LLC | Mingeon Kim |
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
StudyLess
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
StudyLess
- StudyLess Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- StudyLess Pro Weekly$9.997 Days
- StudyLess Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year









