Comparison

Class Schedule vs DayByDay Circular Life Planner

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

Head to head
About

Class Schedule

Organize your academic life with a visual planner for classes, assignments, and deadlines. See your week at a glance with a color-coded timetable and manage tasks with due dates and reminders. Get alerts for upcoming classes and assignments.

Highlights
  • Visual timetable
  • Color-coded schedule
  • Assignment tracking
  • Due date reminders
  • Recurring class setup
  • Task sorting and searching
Features
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Plan your school week with Timetable Pad, a visual student planner for classes, assignments, and deadlines. See your week at a glance on a clean, color-coded timetable. Switch between week and day views, hide weekends for a weekday layout, and jump to any date. Set up recurring classes weekly, fortnightly, or on longer rotations, with an optional end date for the semester. Give each subject its own color and icon so your schedule is easy to scan. Stay on top of homework and assignments with built-in tasks. Add due dates, set reminders, organize work by subject, and sort, search, or reorder your list. Timetable Pad can alert you before a class starts or an assignment is due. Support: https://armchairengineering.com/support/ Privacy Policy: https://armchairengineering.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://armchairengineering.com/terms/

About

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

Visualize your day with a unique circular schedule that makes time flow easy to understand. Manage tasks, set reminders, and import calendars. Offers customizable themes and local data storage with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Circular and timetable daily schedule views
  • Home screen widgets
  • Reusable daily templates
  • Apple Calendar import
  • Customizable reminders
  • JSON backup export
  • iCloud CloudKit sync
Features
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DayByDay is a personal schedule app built to make one day easier to read. Instead of keeping every plan in a long list, DayByDay lays out your 24-hour day as a circular schedule so you can understand the flow of your time at a glance. Switch between the circular view and timetable view, check today's schedule, and keep reminders focused on the events that matter. Key Features - View your day as a circular schedule or timetable - Home Screen widgets for today's schedule, current event, time left, and daily overview - Add, edit, and delete events - Save reusable daily templates and apply them to any day - Premium read-only Apple Calendar import with an automatic backup before sync - 10-minute, 5-minute, and start-time reminders - Turn reminders on or off for each event - Alarm screen that keeps ringing until stopped - Theme styles, fonts, guide rings, and label rotation settings - Localized language options with RTL and LTR layout direction support - SwiftData storage with iCloud CloudKit sync - JSON backup export - In-app email drafts for bug reports and feature requests DayByDay is not trying to replace every calendar workflow. It focuses on helping you read the shape of a single day, understand the space between events, and keep a lighter daily plan. Your schedule data is stored on device. When you are signed in to iCloud, app data can sync through your private CloudKit database across devices using the same Apple ID. This app uses the Apple Standard End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Class Schedule4 screens
DayByDay Circular Life Planner1 screens

Verdict

The call

Class Schedule and DayByDay Circular Life Planner both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of DayByDay Circular Life Planner's written reviews are positive against 63% of Class Schedule's. DayByDay Circular Life Planner also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Class Schedule's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Class Schedule sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and DayByDay Circular Life Planner sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Class Schedule against 5.0 for DayByDay Circular Life Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Class Schedule's written reviews are positive against 100% of DayByDay Circular Life Planner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Class Schedule ships an update every 5 months, DayByDay Circular Life Planner every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Class Schedule versus DayByDay Circular Life Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClass ScheduleDayByDay Circular Life Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArmchair EngineeringZrindy LLC

Customer experience

Class Schedule

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative12.5%

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Class Schedule

Subscriptions2
  • Timetable Pad Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Timetable Pad Plus Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
6 purchases

DayByDay Circular Life Planner

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Premium$0.991 Month
  • Monthly Premium 2026$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Premium$1.991 Year
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  • Yearly Premium 20267 Days trial$2.991 Year
One-time2
  • Starlit Castle$1.99
  • Lifetime Purchase$8.99

Questions

Is Class Schedule free?
Class Schedule is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DayByDay Circular Life Planner free?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Class Schedule or DayByDay Circular Life Planner?
Class Schedule and DayByDay Circular Life Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Class Schedule or DayByDay Circular Life Planner have ads?
DayByDay Circular Life Planner shows ads; Class Schedule does not.
Which is updated more often, Class Schedule or DayByDay Circular Life Planner?
Class Schedule ships an update every 5 months, and DayByDay Circular Life Planner every 5 days. Most recently, Class Schedule was updated on November 1, 2026 and DayByDay Circular Life Planner on November 12, 2026.

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