Comparison

Cinch vs Atlas

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

Head to head
About

Cinch

Automate your academic life by syncing assignments from your learning management system to your Google Calendar. It intelligently schedules dedicated study time around your existing commitments and automatically reschedules missed blocks.

Highlights
  • Syncs assignments from LMS to Google Calendar
  • Creates automatic study blocks
  • Reschedules missed study sessions
  • Works around existing calendar events
  • Allows manual adjustment of study blocks
  • Imports assignments not on LMS
Features
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Cinch pulls your assignments and syllabi from Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace (D2L), or Google Classroom and posts them to your Google Calendar in about five minutes. Then it builds a study schedule: a block of time for each assignment, placed around the classes and events already on your calendar. If you miss a study block, Cinch moves it. A block you skipped on Sunday shows up again on Tuesday. You don't have to replan anything. WHAT CINCH DOES • Imports assignments and due dates from your school's LMS • Posts each assignment as a [DUE] event on Google Calendar • Adds [STUDY] blocks with time set aside for each assignment • Works around the classes, work shifts, and events already on your calendar • Reschedules any study block you miss, automatically, overnight WHAT YOU CONTROL • Review every imported assignment so you can confirm nothing was missed • Add any assignments that aren't on your LMS or syllabi • Move, shorten, or delete any study block. They're normal Google Calendar events. Cinch adjusts the rest of your schedule around your changes. YOUR DATA • Cinch reads your existing Google Calendar events only to show your schedule in the app and to find open time for study blocks • Cinch never changes or deletes calendar events it didn't create • Cinch never sells, rents, or shares your data • Delete your account and all your data is permanently deleted • Full policy: https://www.cinchplanner.com/privacy-policy WORKS WITH Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace (D2L), Google Classroom, and Google Calendar. Cinch is for college and university students in the US and Canada. A Google Calendar account is required. Cinch is a subscription with a free trial. Billing is handled by Apple. Cancel any time in the app (Settings → Manage Subscription) or in your App Store subscriptions. Questions? support@cinchplanner.com Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Atlas

This app helps students manage their academic life by organizing classes, assignments, and deadlines in one place. It intelligently captures tasks and events, syncs with external calendars, and provides customizable notifications. Keep all your lecture notes and semester details organized for easy access.

Highlights
  • Intelligent task and event capture
  • Semester and class organization
  • Syllabus scanning
  • Calendar syncing (Google, Apple)
  • Overdue item highlighting
  • Class-specific note-taking
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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Atlas is a planner for students that keeps your calendar, your classes, and everything you owe in one place. CAPTURE, DON'T ORGANIZE Type or say what's on your mind — "chem lab writeup due friday, gym at 5" — and Atlas sorts it out: what's an event, what's a task, which class it belongs to, when it's due. Fix anything it got wrong with a tap on a chip. Your draft is saved as you type, so nothing is lost if you get interrupted. BUILT AROUND YOUR SEMESTER Set up a term once and your classes hang off it, with meeting times, rooms, assignments and notes in one place per class. Scan a syllabus from your camera roll and Atlas reads the dates, the grade weights and the late policy off it. If your school publishes a calendar link, connect it and your classes fill themselves in. ONE CALENDAR, NOT FOUR Connect Google Calendar and your events sync both ways. Add Apple Calendar to see everything side by side. Deadlines are shown as deadlines, not as blocks that pretend the work is done — and anything late is pinned, in amber, until you actually handle it. NOTES THAT KNOW WHERE THEY BELONG Keep lecture notes with the class they came from, so what you wrote in week three is still one tap from the exam in week ten. WIDGETS AND NOTIFICATIONS See what's next on your home screen or lock screen, or your whole week at a glance. Get a daily digest, event reminders, and nudges for what's overdue — each one switchable. Atlas is free while we're building it. Your data is yours: never sold, never used for advertising, and deletable from Settings at any time.

Screenshots

Cinch4 screens
Atlas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Atlas at none against Cinch's 2. Cinch's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Cinch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Atlas asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cinch against 5.0 for Atlas. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Cinch versus Atlas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCinchAtlas
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCinch Planner LLCANDREW ALEX KHALIL

Customer experience

Cinch

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Atlas

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cinch

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual Premium Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
None

Atlas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cinch free?
Cinch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Atlas free?
Atlas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cinch or Atlas?
Cinch and Atlas are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Cinch or Atlas have ads?
Neither Cinch nor Atlas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cinch or Atlas?
Cinch ships an update weekly, and Atlas weekly. Most recently, Cinch was updated on October 31, 2026 and Atlas on October 31, 2026.

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