Comparison

Cinch vs Syllabus Planner

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

Head to head
About

Cinch

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 โ€ข Imports assignments and due dates from your school's LMS โ€ข Posts each assignment as a [DUE] event on Google Calendar โ€ข Adds [STUDY] blocks with time set aside for each assignment โ€ข Works around the classes, work shifts, and events already on your calendar โ€ข Reschedules any study block you miss, automatically, overnight WHAT YOU CONTROL โ€ข Review every imported assignment so you can confirm nothing was missed โ€ข Add any assignments that aren't on your LMS or syllabi โ€ข 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 โ€ข Cinch reads your existing Google Calendar events only to show your schedule in the app and to find open time for study blocks โ€ข Cinch never changes or deletes calendar events it didn't create โ€ข Cinch never sells, rents, or shares your data โ€ข Delete your account and all your data is permanently deleted โ€ข 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 โ†’ 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/

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Syllabus Planner

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Not another planner. A plan that rebuilds itself. Tell it which exams you have, which books they cover, and how many hours a week you actually get. Syllabus Planner works backwards from your exam dates and tells you what to study today: which pages, from which subject, for how long. Skip a day? The plan redraws. Move faster than expected? It redraws too. You never start over because life got in the way. UPLOAD THE SYLLABUS, DON'T RETYPE IT A photo or a PDF of the course outline: it picks out subjects, exam dates, credits and chapters. Then it asks you to confirm each one โ€” nothing is created behind your back. The reading happens on your device, and the document never leaves it. WHEN YOU FALL BEHIND IT SAYS SO, AND OFFERS THREE WAYS BACK Spread the backlog across every day left, clear it in the next few days, or keep your days as they are. Each with the real before-and-after numbers, not a pep talk. FOCUS A timer for the study session, with pause. On stop it logs the minutes you actually spent โ€” and that is what teaches the app your real pace, instead of trusting the estimates you gave it on day one. THE DAY, NOT THE SEMESTER Today's screen answers one question: what do I do now. The calendar and the countdown for every exam are there, one step behind. A TUTOR THAT KNOWS YOUR PLAN Connect an AI model with your own key and it can quiz you, explain a topic, or reshape your day when you only have an hour. If it proposes a change to the plan, you apply it with one tap: it never touches anything on its own. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC The same app, shaped for each screen โ€” and the same plan. What you tick off on the Mac in the morning is already there on your phone in the afternoon. WHERE YOUR DATA LIVES On your device, and in your own iCloud. Exams, material and logged hours follow you across iPhone, iPad and Mac: they stay under your Apple Account, never pass through a server of ours, and we cannot read them. No account to create, no ads, no tracking. The tutor stays off until you connect a model yourself, and notifications and calendar stay off until you switch them on. Syllabus Planner is free for one exam. For as many as you like, the full plan unlocks by semester, by year, or once, for good. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nicolomarinangeli.github.io/syllabusplanner/privacy/

Screenshots

Cinch4 screens
Syllabus Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cinch at 15.0 against Syllabus Planner's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Cinch sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Syllabus Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Cinch versus Syllabus Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCinchSyllabus Planner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” better
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size101 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCinch Planner LLCNicolo Marinangeli

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Cinch

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Annual Premium Subscription7 Days trial$24.991 Year
3 purchases

Syllabus Planner

Subscriptions2
  • Six months$8.996 Months
  • Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Forever$34.99

Questions

Is Cinch free?
Cinch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Syllabus Planner free?
Syllabus Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cinch or Syllabus Planner have ads?
Neither Cinch nor Syllabus Planner shows ads.

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