Comparison

smart_r vs Sherpa Study

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

Head to head
About

smart_r

Features
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smart_r is a fun, interactive GCSE Maths revision app built for UK secondary school students in Year 10 and 11. Designed to make revision feel like a game, smart_r helps students stay. Privacy policy: https://smartr.education/privacy-policy/ Terms of use: https://smartr.education/terms/

About

Sherpa Study

This app helps students prepare for GCSE exams with personalized revision plans, confidence tracking, practice questions, flashcards, and past papers. It aligns content with specific exam boards and specifications for targeted learning.

Highlights
  • Personalized revision plans
  • Confidence tracking per topic
  • Practice questions with mark schemes
  • Flashcards with spaced repetition
  • Past papers and mark schemes
  • Exam board specific content
Features
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Sherpa Study is GCSE revision without the guesswork about where to start. Free, no ads. Confidence tracking, practice questions, flashcards and past papers - all matched to your exam board. YOUR SUBJECTS, YOUR SPECIFICATION • Pick your subjects by exam board and tier - AQA, Edexcel, OCR and more • You get the real specification, broken into modules and topics. Not a generic list. TRACK YOUR CONFIDENCE IN EACH TOPIC - Use our reflective revision plan approach - Aim to get each topic to a 3+ confidence level - Focus on your weakest topics until you get there - Then, try to get all confidence levels to 4+... BUILD A REVISION PLAN • Set your revision goal for each week, and move sessions between days in the calendar • Create focused study sessions and set a timer • Log your confidence in each topic and leave notes for next time • Work on your weakest topics, and watch them stop being your weakest topics PRACTICE WITH REAL QUESTIONS • Thousands of practice questions across your subjects • Check your answers against the real mark scheme • Save your score and come back to the tricky ones later • Filter by easy, medium and hard LEARN FROM FLASHCARDS • Work through thousands of flashcards • Mark how easily you recalled the answer, and we'll show it again right before you'd have forgotten it PAST PAPERS WITHOUT THE HUNT • Real past papers and mark schemes for your specification, in one place • Log your score and see it improve paper by paper BUILT BY SHERPA TUTORS Built by the team behind Sherpa Tutors - a leading UK tuition platform with a focus on qualified UK teachers. We want every student to get access to the planning, revision and learning tools that our tutored students get for free - and this is part of our work towards that.

Screenshots

smart_r4 screens
Sherpa Study4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sherpa Study at none against smart_r's 10. smart_r's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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. smart_r sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Sherpa Study asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

smart_r ships an update every 4 weeks, Sherpa Study every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
smart_r versus Sherpa Study: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametersmart_rSherpa Study
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSMART-R TECHNOLOGY LIMITEDApplication Labs Ltd

In-app purchases

10 purchases

smart_r

One-time10
  • all topic discount 4Free
  • all topic discount 3$0.99
  • geometry topic$2.99
Show 7 more
  • number topic$2.99
  • probability topic$2.99
  • ratio topic$2.99
  • stats topic$2.99
  • all topic discount 2$3.99
  • all topic discount 1$6.99
  • all topics$10.00
None

Sherpa Study

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is smart_r free?
smart_r is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sherpa Study free?
Sherpa Study is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do smart_r or Sherpa Study have ads?
Neither smart_r nor Sherpa Study shows ads.
Which is updated more often, smart_r or Sherpa Study?
smart_r ships an update every 4 weeks, and Sherpa Study every 2 months. Most recently, smart_r was updated on November 8, 2026 and Sherpa Study on November 12, 2026.

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