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.
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.
- Visual timetable
- Color-coded schedule
- Assignment tracking
- Due date reminders
- Recurring class setup
- Task sorting and searching
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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/
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.
- Circular and timetable daily schedule views
- Home screen widgets
- Reusable daily templates
- Apple Calendar import
- Customizable reminders
- JSON backup export
- iCloud CloudKit sync
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Class Schedule | DayByDay Circular Life Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Armchair Engineering | Zrindy LLC |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Class Schedule
- Timetable Pad Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
- Timetable Pad Plus Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
DayByDay Circular Life Planner
- 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
- Starlit Castle$1.99
- Lifetime Purchase$8.99
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