Schema vs Field Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Schema
This AI-powered learning companion helps you capture, summarize, and retain important ideas. It uses smart review intervals to ensure knowledge sticks, fostering deeper understanding for lifelong learners. Turn consumed information into lasting comprehension.
- Capture and organize key ideas
- AI summarization
- Spaced repetition reviews
- Smart practice for retention
- Build compounding mental leverage
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Schema is your AI-powered companion for lifelong learning. It helps you create, distill, and retain the ideas that matter — so you can think more clearly and remember more deeply. Schema helps you build lasting knowledge. Capture insights in your own words. Use AI to summarize what you’re learning. Then review each concept at just the right moment — before you forget — so it sticks. Schema isn’t built for test prep. It’s built for people who learn for life: founders, builders, readers, writers, thinkers. If you’re trying to understand the world more deeply and remember what matters, this app is for you. With Schema you can: • Capture and organize key ideas • Use AI to compress and summarize • Review just before you forget • Lock in knowledge with smart practice • Build mental leverage that compounds Whether you’re studying a book, learning from a podcast, preparing for a project, or simply thinking through hard problems — Schema helps you turn what you consume into real, lasting understanding. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Field Guide
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Most facts go in one ear and out the other. Field Guide is built so they don't. Each lesson takes two or three minutes and follows a simple loop proven to build memory: you predict an answer first, you get taught one clear idea, then you're quizzed on it. Guessing before you learn is the trick that makes it stick. Then spaced review brings each lesson back days later, right before you'd forget, so it moves into long-term memory instead of fading by tomorrow. WHAT'S INSIDE Hundreds of lessons across science, history, money, health, art, engineering and more A predict → teach → check loop that's actually fun Spaced review that schedules itself A streak to keep you honest Clean, calm, no-fluff design. No ads, no clutter. Browse by subject, get a fresh lesson each day, or hit Random and learn something new right now. Field Guide works fully offline, and new lessons arrive automatically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Field Guide at none against Schema's 2. Schema's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). 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
Both are free to download. Schema sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Field Guide asks for nothing beyond the download.
Schema ships an update every 9 days, Field Guide monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Schema | Field Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 165 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Infinity Labs AG | 4fives Entertainment, LLC |
In-app purchases
Schema
- Schema Pro Monthly$14.991 Month
- Schema Pro Yearly$149.991 Year
Field Guide
No in-app purchases









