SMU360 Campus Engagement vs ProPlan Scholar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SMU360 Campus Engagement
This app serves as a central hub for campus life, helping students discover organizations, find events, and connect with the university community. It also provides access to essential SMU account management tools.
- Discover student organizations
- Find upcoming campus events
- Connect with students, faculty, and staff
- Access SMU account management tools
- Centralized campus community platform
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The SMU360 app is a centralized campus community platform where students can easily get involved in organizations, learn about upcoming events, and connect with students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, students can link to multiple SMU account management tools. This app makes it easy to feel at home on the Hilltop!
ProPlan Scholar
This AI-powered academic planner transforms a chaotic semester into a clear, personalized schedule. Upload your syllabus to automatically extract course details and assignments, then receive a smart study plan that integrates with your existing commitments. It offers tools like AI flashcards and a study assistant to help you manage your academic workload.
- AI syllabus import
- Personalized study schedule
- Assignment and deadline tracking
- Calendar synchronization
- AI flashcards and study guides
- AI study assistant
- Grade tracking
- Focus timer and reminders
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ProPlan Scholar is the AI-powered academic planner that turns a chaotic semester into a clear, personalized plan — built for every kind of college student. Upload your syllabus (PDF, Word, or even a photo) and ProPlan Scholar's AI instantly pulls out your courses, professors, class times, and every assignment and exam with its due date. From there it builds a personalized study schedule that fits around your real life — work shifts, practices, club meetings, and travel included. WHO IT'S FOR Whether you're a first-year undergrad, a student-athlete juggling practice and travel, a working professional taking night classes, or a doctoral candidate managing a dissertation — ProPlan Scholar adapts to how you study. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Import any syllabus with AI — no manual data entry - Get a smart study schedule that works around your commitments - Track every assignment, exam, and deadline in one place - Sync to your Apple, Google, or Outlook calendar automatically - Generate AI flashcards and study guides from your course materials - Ask the AI study assistant for help, anytime - Track your grades and see where you stand - Stay on pace with a focus timer, study streaks, and reminders BUILT FOR FOCUS No ads. No clutter. Just the tools you need to plan smarter and stress less. ProPlan Scholar is free to use. Sign in with email, Apple, or Google and start planning your best semester yet. Questions? Reach us at hello@proplanscholar.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ProPlan Scholar at 5.0 against SMU360 Campus Engagement's 3.1. ProPlan Scholar also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). SMU360 Campus Engagement's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads 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.
ProPlan Scholar holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SMU360 Campus Engagement has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SMU360 Campus Engagement ships an update every 3 weeks, ProPlan Scholar fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SMU360 Campus Engagement | ProPlan Scholar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Southern Methodist University | ProPlan Scholar, LLC |
Customer experience
SMU360 Campus Engagement
ProPlan Scholar
In-app purchases
SMU360 Campus Engagement
No in-app purchases
ProPlan Scholar
No in-app purchases
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