Planafy vs Roma Student
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planafy
This app helps tour leaders organize trips by creating itineraries, sending automated reconfirmation emails, and managing daily schedules and optional activities. Travelers can access daily events, receive city suggestions, and sign up for activities.
- Create tour itineraries
- Automated reconfirmation emails
- Daily schedule management
- Organize optional activities
- Traveler access to events
- City free time suggestions
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Every Tour Leader should use Planafy to organize their tours: create itinerary, automatically write reconfirmation emails, create daily schedule, organize optional activities, etc. Travelers will use this app to access daily events, access city free time suggestions and sign up for optional activities. That means, more free time for yourself!
Roma Student
Discover Rome through the eyes of local students. Find authentic recommendations for food, nightlife, and events, and connect with fellow students. Sign up with a university email for exclusive access.
- Student-written recommendations
- Filter by location and time
- Event listings
- Connect with people
- Exclusive university email access
- Curated 'mark' for special places
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Everyone reviewing Rome is here for four days. We're not. Roma Student is a city guide written by students who actually live here. John Cabot, AUR, Temple, Sapienza, Roma Tre, LUISS and twenty other institutions. Every place was put there by someone who goes, with a note that tells you what to order, when to turn up, and what to skip. WHERE TO GO Food, nightlife, coffee, markets, views, sport, date night. Filter by what's open now, what's near you, and what you actually feel like. Or hit "Can't decide" and let the wheel choose. WHAT'S ON Every week, in one list. What it costs, where it is, and who's already going. Make your own plans and invite people, or leave them open to anyone. WHO YOU MEET The hardest part of a new city isn't the language. Add the people you meet by scanning their code, see which friends are going to the same things, and message them without swapping numbers. THE MARK Some places carry a mark. It isn't a rating. It means somebody here would take you to that place personally, and there are only a few. WHY YOUR EMAIL Signing up needs a university email from a Rome institution. That's the whole point. It's why the recommendations are worth reading and why the people are real. Free. No ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Roma Student at none against Planafy's shown. Roma Student also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Planafy's advantage is ratings volume (171 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Planafy against 5.0 for Roma Student. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planafy has 171 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Planafy | Roma Student |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (171 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 171 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Alejandro Santa-Cruz | Jackson Lewis |
Customer experience
Planafy
Roma Student
In-app purchases
Planafy
No in-app purchases
Roma Student
No in-app purchases









