Comparison

School Assistant vs Heftig

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Homework and test tracking
  • Class schedule management
  • Class information storage
  • Website link saving
  • Customizable reminders
  • Apple Watch app integration
  • iCloud data syncing
Features
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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

About

Heftig

Features
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Heftig keeps your school life together – homework, exam dates, timetable and notes in one place, clear and without the clutter. HOMEWORK & EXAMS • Homework with subject, note and due date – picked straight from your timetable instead of typed out • Exams with a study plan: Heftig spreads the study days and shows when it gets tight • "Today" and "Week" show what's coming without any searching TIMETABLE • Set up to your rhythm: single periods or double blocks • Optional weekly switch between two plans (A/B weeks) • Teacher and room right at each lesson, including exceptions for single lessons • Share your plan as a link – your class imports it with one tap SCHOOL HOLIDAYS • Just pick your federal state: holidays and public holidays appear in the plan • Heftig fills in the start and end of your term itself • Days off show up as a block – a fully free week tells you why WEATHER • The daily forecast above each column of the week, discreetly • One tap opens the detailed report for the way there and back ACHIEVEMENTS • XP for completed tasks and study days kept, with a weekly history NOTES • Your own notes per subject, with a history across weeks ACCOUNT & SYNC (OPTIONAL) • Without an account not a single record leaves your device – everything stays local • Optional account with a one-time sign-in code by email, no password at all • Syncs your content across devices if you want, including your state and term dates YOUR DATA IS YOURS • No name, no school, no class – we never ask • No full date of birth, only month and year (we only need to know whether you are 16 or older) • No ads, no tracking or analytics services, nothing passed on to third parties • If you are under 16, we ask a parent for consent before anything syncs (Art. 8 GDPR) • You can delete your account in the app at any time, including the data stored on our server Heftig is free to use, for students who want to organise their school life themselves. By default your data stays local on your device – cloud features only apply once you sign in. School holidays come from openholidaysapi.org, the weather from Germany's national weather service via Bright Sky.

Screenshots

School Assistant4 screens
Heftig4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Heftig at none against School Assistant's 6. Heftig also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). School Assistant's advantage is device support (5 vs 3). On price and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. School Assistant sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Heftig asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Assistant ships an update every 2 months, Heftig every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
School Assistant versus Heftig: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool AssistantHeftig
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size538 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSun Apps, LLCSven Carsten Nickel

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

Heftig

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

School Assistant

One-time6
  • 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
None

Heftig

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Assistant free?
School Assistant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heftig free?
Heftig is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do School Assistant or Heftig have ads?
Neither School Assistant nor Heftig shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Assistant or Heftig?
School Assistant ships an update every 2 months, and Heftig every 3 days. Most recently, School Assistant was updated on October 25, 2026 and Heftig on October 24, 2026.

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