Comparison

Learn SQL vs Studiolo

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

Head to head
About

Learn SQL

Master SQL and database fundamentals with interactive lessons and AI-powered support. Practice with a live database and real-time query execution. Offers a free core curriculum and advanced features via subscription.

Highlights
  • AI-powered lessons
  • Real-time query execution
  • Built-in live database
  • Interactive SQL editor
  • Progress tracking
  • Notebook feature
  • Certificates of completion (Pro)
Features
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SQL Academy: Learn with AI is the ultimate mobile app for mastering SQL and database fundamentals. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced developer, this app offers a guided, interactive, and hands-on way to learn SQL. Structured Query Language (SQL) is the foundation of modern data systems. SQL Academy makes learning practical and enjoyable with real-time query execution, a built-in live database, personalized lessons, and smart AI-powered support. You can start learning the basics for free, including lessons on SELECT statements, filtering, ordering, and table manipulation. The app includes a free interactive SQL editor, notebook feature, and core curriculum to help you begin your journey. Some advanced features such as AI-generated SQL code, smart query assistance, real-time SQL challenges, and certificates of completion are available only with a Pro subscription. These Pro-only features are clearly marked within the app and can be unlocked with a subscription. The AI tutor explains complex concepts like JOINs, subqueries, and indexing in simple terms. When you make mistakes, it helps you understand why and how to fix them. You can also save your favorite queries, track your learning progress, and revisit key concepts using the built-in notebook and query library. From basic commands to advanced performance tuning, SQL Academy offers a complete learning experience. Whether you want to build dashboards, analyze data, or improve your development skills, this app has everything you need. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy Term of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy https://coddykit.com/terms/privacy-policy

About

Studiolo

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A course of study with no commencement. Fifteen shelves, seventy-six books, and one capstone for each shelf that a professor reads and grades against a fixed rubric. There is no schedule, no page target and no term. You mark a book when you finish it, and a shelf closes when its books are marked. It began over the course of about a year as one reader's private reading program — an MBA in everything but the tuition. What started as a curriculum turned into a habit, and more shelves are added as subjects become interesting. WHAT A STUDIOLO IS A small private study — one room, big enough for one person and a chair. The famous ones belonged to Federico da Montefeltro around 1476, and their walls were covered floor to ceiling in wood inlay: cupboards standing half open with books, an hourglass, an armillary sphere inside them. None of it real. All of it flat. A portrait of a mind, made permanent by the person who used it. Your wall works the same way. Every book you finish inlays one more object into it. That is the whole reward. There is no progress bar, because a bar measures what is left, and the argument of this program is that nothing is left. THE SHELVES Execution. Strategy. Innovation. New ventures. Consulting. Leadership. Communication. Financial fluency. Analytical thinking. Design. Sales. Recruiting. Generative AI. Coaching. Mergers and acquisitions. Each shelf holds three to eight books chosen because they disagree with each other. Every book arrives with an argument for why it is there, what it contributes, and one question you answer when you finish it — a question you could not answer from the jacket copy. THE PROFESSOR Write the capstone and it is read against that shelf's grading instrument: a document you never see, holding the concept inventory for every book on the shelf and the anchored standard for that module. Four dimensions are marked — rigor, clarity, integration, insight. The evaluator never proposes an overall grade. The aggregate is arithmetic from a fixed weighting, computed outside the evaluation, so two people who write the same capstone receive the same result. A second reader then checks every letter against the instrument's own written anchors and may move one. The feedback names something you did that a weaker writer would not have, states the central weakness in one sentence, and shows the connection that was available and missed — using the books you have just read. NOT A CREDENTIAL Nothing here is accredited and nothing transfers. The certificate reads Certificate of Continuous Study, because that is what it is. If you need a qualification, this is the wrong thing. WHAT IT COSTS The reading is free, all of it, permanently. Grading a capstone runs a large language model twice over a long grading instrument and costs real money, so credits are sold at roughly what that costs. A credit is spent only when a grade is saved — a run that fails costs nothing. BUILD YOUR OWN When the fifteen run out, commission a sixteenth. Studiolo writes the specification a shelf has to meet — books that genuinely argue with each other, an order that means something, a question per book, and the grading instrument that makes it markable — and you bring back the shelf. Sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac. No analytics, no tracking, no advertising.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Studiolo at none against Learn SQL's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Learn SQL sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Studiolo sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Learn SQL versus Studiolo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn SQLStudiolo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMEHMET CANKER (TR)David Hamm

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Learn SQL

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly Subscription$3.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Subscription$19.90
2 purchases

Studiolo

One-time2
  • 5 Gradings$1.99
  • 15 Gradings$5.99

Questions

Is Learn SQL free?
Learn SQL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Studiolo free?
Studiolo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Learn SQL or Studiolo have ads?
Learn SQL shows ads; Studiolo does not.

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