Comparison

Sherpa Study vs Syllabi

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

Head to head
About

Sherpa Study

This app helps GCSE students revise effectively by providing personalized study plans, practice questions, flashcards, and past papers. It aligns content with specific exam boards and tracks progress to focus on weaker topics.

Highlights
  • Personalized revision plans
  • Exam board-specific content
  • Thousands of practice questions
  • Flashcards with spaced repetition
  • Past papers and mark schemes
  • Confidence tracking
  • Study session timer
Features
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A plan, the questions, flashcards and the past papers - all matched to your exam board. Sherpa Study is GCSE revision without the guesswork about where to start. Free, no ads. 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. 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 TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Rate your confidence topic by topic and watch it climb • See where you're strongest — and where your next hour is best spent 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.

About

Syllabi

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Syllabi is the companion app for students and parents enrolled in Syllabi's online GCSE tuition. Built for GCSE success in Maths, English and Science, the app puts everything in one place: • See your weekly lesson schedule at a glance and join live classes • Catch up any time with full lesson recordings, workbooks and practice questions • Past papers, exam-technique guides and revision materials for every subject • View marked results, grades, topic breakdowns and teacher feedback • Follow attendance and improvement across all subjects • Get notified about new lessons, assessments and feedback Parents can switch between their children's accounts to follow each one's progress. Syllabi delivers live, teacher-led group lessons with the structure and accountability students need to reach top grades. The app is for existing Syllabi members.

Screenshots

Sherpa Study4 screens
Syllabi4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sherpa Study and Syllabi are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sherpa Study versus Syllabi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSherpa StudySyllabi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApplication Labs LtdSyllabi Limited

In-app purchases

None

Sherpa Study

No in-app purchases

None

Syllabi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sherpa Study free?
Sherpa Study is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Syllabi free?
Syllabi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sherpa Study or Syllabi have ads?
Neither Sherpa Study nor Syllabi shows ads.

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