Comparison

myHomework Student Planner vs Planboard

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

Head to head
About

myHomework Student Planner

This app helps students organize their academic life by tracking classes, homework, tests, and assignments. It offers a beautiful, simple interface and works offline, with cross-platform syncing and reminders available through an optional account.

Highlights
  • Track classes, homework, tests, and assignments
  • Beautiful calendar display
  • Supports various schedule types
  • Offline functionality
  • Cross-platform syncing
  • Homework reminders
Features
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What makes myHomework the best student planner? * Beauty, Simplicity, and Reliability - myHomework has a gorgeous appearance and simple interface making it easy for anyone to use. Our apps fill their role as a planner without network connectivity. * Amazing Anywhere - With highly rated cross-platform apps, and a wonderful website, it's the most complete on the go planner experience anywhere. * Price - The account is FREE everywhere and an ads-free premium experience is available. * Experience - myHomework has been around since 2009 and continually improving the experience based on the feedback of our users. But don't listen to us, check out just some of the coverage we've received: 2014: USA Today Best Back to School Apps 2013: Edudemic The 16 Apps And Tools Worth Trying This Year 2012: HLNTV Top 4 Back to School Apps 2012: Yahoo News 10 Helpful Apps for Students 2012: The Street 10 Best Back-to-School Apps 2011: Main Street Back-to-School: The Best Smartphone Apps 2010: Mashable Top 10 Back to School Apps 2009: Time's Top 10 Back To School Apps 2009: Business Insider The Top 10 Back-To-School iPhone Apps The free app includes: - Track your classes, homework, tests and assignments - Beautiful calendar display - Supports time, block and period-based schedules - Universal (both iPhone, iPad and iPod touch) - Compatibility for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus With the optional myHomework account, you also get: - Sync across other platforms - Access to our website - Receive homework reminders - Facebook Single Sign-On - Join your teacher's Teachers.io class and automatically download their class information, assignments, files and announcements Are you looking for a replacement to that paper student planner, school diary, or academic agenda? myHomework is just what you're looking for. The clean interface and design make this app great for college, high school, or middle school. This homework helper contains additional features that make it easy to use for high school students with a block class schedule. Keeping track of assignments has never been better! The myHomework student agenda is today's students favorite way to focus and reduce anxiety. With this school tracker, the information normally hidden in the academic planner is now available everywhere. Using myHomework as a school organizer makes keeping track of what assignments to do easier than ever before. Download Today!

About

Planboard

This app helps educators create, edit, and organize lesson plans with curriculum standards and attachments. It features a beautiful timetable view and syncs across devices, allowing teachers to plan on the go and reduce prep time.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and share lesson plans
  • Organize timetable, subjects, and semesters
  • Manage curriculum standards
  • Add attachments to lesson plans
  • Syncs with web version
  • Easy setup
Features
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Plan lessons on the go in an easy-to-use editor with curriculum standards and attachments. Planboard organizes your lessons, subjects, and semesters in a beautiful timetable that is with you everywhere. Join over 250,000 teachers around the world who are already using Planboard to cut down their classroom prep time and spend more time with students! —————————————————————————————— FEATURES • 100% free for teachers! • Create, edit, and share lesson plans • Organize your timetable, subjects, and semesters • Manage curriculum standards • Take photos and add files to lesson plans • Syncs with Planboard on the web • Fast and easy to get set up WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING “A fantastic app that has transformed my lesson planning...I have dumped my old paper planner for good. This is an excellent app.” - benjro “I love this program! I can create my lessons in a jiffy- dare I say lesson planning is almost *fun* now?! I can even do lesson planning while on the go because the program now syncs with the app- SCORE! I love being able to be out and about and not have to be tied to my computer, but if I think of something for a lesson, I can just plug it right in!...And all of this awesomeness is on the FREE version. I love this software!!!” - Tater and her tots “I have been looking for a planning and attendance app for so long! This app is absolutely perfect, whether you’re using it on your iPad, iPhone or using the online site on your computer it works flawlessly! Thank you so much!” - Ethie56 “This app is exactly what I was looking for! I have tried many digital planning options and this is by far the best. Being able to change my planner easily on my iPad or computer makes it so easy to change plans and have them there ready to go...Great app!” - J.Lee.17 “So much better than planning in a paper based planner. I like being able to check my lessons or add to them as ideas occur to me using my phone on the go.” - KT28363838 “Will render you pencil & paper daybook obsolete. It is fantastic for your day to day planning and makes printing off a paper copy for a supply teacher super easy” - Mr.Esss “I have been using it for three years now and love the planning/assessment tools. My principal asked me to inform the rest of the staff about this program. It has helped me make my teaching more organized.” - Stolenfeather “I feel as though I would not be as organized without Chalk! And the fact that it’s free makes it even more amazing! As we know as teachers we spend a lot of our own money on supplies for our students and having a program this amazing for free means I can spend more on my students so thank you!” - btpuggy “I wish I had found Planboard years ago! It has changed my entire approach to planning lessons! I cannot recommend this app enough” - BryarsMom SUPPORT The Chalk Team can be reached anytime by email at support@chalk.com, or during the day by live chat to assist you with getting the most out of Planboard.

Screenshots

myHomework Student Planner4 screens
Planboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Planboard at none against myHomework Student Planner's 10. Planboard also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). myHomework Student Planner's advantage is review sentiment (81% vs 62%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and monetization model 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. myHomework Student Planner sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Planboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Planboard holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.3K and 1.9K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of myHomework Student Planner's written reviews are positive against 62% of Planboard's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

myHomework Student Planner ships an update monthly, Planboard every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
myHomework Student Planner versus Planboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametermyHomework Student PlannerPlanboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4.3K ratings)4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews — better62.0% of reviews
Number of ratings4.3K — better1.9K
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRodrigo NeriPowerSchool Group LLC

Customer experience

myHomework Student Planner

All ratings4,307 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral3.3%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews622 reviews
Positive81.4%
Neutral8.4%
Negative10.3%

Planboard

All ratings1,863 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews187 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative31.6%

User reviews

myHomework Student Planner

From 4.3K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 💻 Syncs across devices
  • 📆 Helps stay organized
  • 🔔 Useful reminders
  • 🎨 Customizable themes
  • 🆓 Free version has good functionality

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 🔍 Difficult to set up class schedules
  • 🔒 Premium features behind paywall
  • 📱 Compatibility issues on mobile
  • 🕰️ Slow performance

Planboard

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient for planning on the go
  • 💡 Customizable templates
  • 🚀 Flexible scheduling
  • 👍 Helpful for organization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and glitches
  • 🐛 Scheduling issues
  • 🐛 Inability to add classes or subjects
  • 🐛 Incompatibility with Apple Pencil
  • 🐛 Lack of offline functionality

Bugs and requests

myHomework Student Planner

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when trying to add assignments
  • Due dates automatically change
  • Syncing issues between devices
  • Keyboard blocks input fields
  • Calendar view not working properly

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add multiple reminders per assignment
  • Implement a daily to-do list
  • Allow more flexibility in class scheduling
  • Integrate with other calendar apps
  • Add widgets for easy access

Planboard

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when adding classes
  • Scheduling issues with non-standard time slots
  • Inability to log in or create account
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Lesson plan data loss

Requested features

7 requests
  • Month view option
  • Unit planning view
  • Ability to add events/meetings
  • Google Calendar integration
  • Behavior tracking/logging
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  • More curriculum standard options
  • Offline access

In-app purchases

10 purchases

myHomework Student Planner

One-time10
  • Blue & Pink Theme$0.99
  • Aqua Theme$0.99
  • Purple Theme$0.99
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  • Baseball Theme$0.99
  • Beach Theme$0.99
  • Sunset Theme$0.99
  • City Theme$0.99
  • City Lights Theme$0.99
  • Puppy Theme$0.99
  • myHomework Premium$4.99
None

Planboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is myHomework Student Planner free?
myHomework Student Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Planboard free?
Planboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, myHomework Student Planner or Planboard?
Planboard is rated higher. myHomework Student Planner averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4.3K ratings, while Planboard averages 4.7 from 1.9K ratings.
Do myHomework Student Planner or Planboard have ads?
myHomework Student Planner shows ads; Planboard does not.
Which is updated more often, myHomework Student Planner or Planboard?
myHomework Student Planner ships an update monthly, and Planboard every 6 weeks. Most recently, myHomework Student Planner was updated on September 23, 2026 and Planboard on September 19, 2026.

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