Study Planner vs Cursus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Study Planner
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Syllabus Planner is a study planner for college and university exams: it tells you what to study today, page by page, and an AI tutor quizzes you. Not another calendar: 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 β 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 β 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 On devices with Apple Intelligence it runs on Apple's model, right on the device: free, no keys. It quizzes you on your notebook and grades the answers, or explains a topic. Otherwise, or for better answers, connect a service with your own key, which can also 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. LECTURES, SPACED REVIEW AND MOCK EXAMS Add your lecture timetable and study moves around it, without losing any hours. What you study comes back in short reviews after 1, 3, 7 and 14 days. A mock exam a few days before the real one, Focus in 25 and 5-minute cycles that stays on the Lock Screen, and a notebook that quizzes you. ON IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC The same app, shaped for each screen β 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. You choose whether to turn the tutor on, 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/
Cursus
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No more "I'll write it down later." No more homework discovered the night before, forgotten tests, or photos of the whiteboard lost in your camera roll. With Cursus, you add homework in three seconds, and Cursus remembers it for you: the right reminder at the right time and your exams always in plain sight. YOUR DAY AT A GLANCE Open Cursus and you instantly see what's overdue, what's left to do today (with your progress) and the exams coming up, with a countdown. Swipe along the week strip to move between days, or switch to List view to see everything ahead, day by day, with the planned study time. HOMEWORK, EXAMS AND REMINDERS Three kinds of items, easy to tell apart: homework, exams (clearly flagged) and reminders (a form to hand in, a book to bring, a school trip). ADDED IN THREE SECONDS A title and a date, that's it. Your subject is remembered and suggested next time. Add a time, study time, notes or a notification if you like. A FORM THAT FITS YOU Pick the fields you need, in the order you want, separately for homework, exams and reminders. Create your own fields (text, number, checkbox, date, choice list, linkβ¦): pages to read, chapters to revise, room, weight, grade received. And choose what shows under each item's title. NOTIFICATIONS AT THE RIGHT TIME One reminder per item, whenever you want: the day before at 6 PM, the same day, an hour beforeβ¦ With defaults for each kind (for example, exams always the day before). And every evening, if you like, a summary of what's left and what's due tomorrow. A REAL CALENDAR In Month view, your homework is written right in the cells, readable without opening anything. In Days view, up to 7 columns side by side to plan your week. Drag an item to another day, or reorder your day. IN YOUR CALENDAR TOO If you like, your homework shows up in your phone's calendar (Apple, Google, Outlookβ¦) with every detail: subject, duration, notes. Finished items disappear on their own. SIMPLE GESTURES Swipe to tick off or delete, long-press to edit, postpone or duplicate. Made a mistake? There's always Undo. A ticked item stays visible until the next day, so you see what you've done. HISTORY Everything in the past, done or not, sorted by month, with a filter to find what was missed. USEFUL WIDGETS On your Home Screen, tick off homework without opening the app and add one in a tap. IPHONE, IPAD, MAC AND APPLE WATCH On iPad and Mac, Cursus makes the most of the big screen (sidebar, upcoming days alongside). On Apple Watch, tick off homework and add new items by dictation. Sign in with Apple and everything syncs across your devices, privately. Large widgets show the next days, and there are Lock Screen widgets too. SIMPLE AND PRIVATE No ads, no tracking. Dark mode, 10 languages, an app built for speed. SUBSCRIPTION Cursus is used with a monthly or yearly subscription (7-day free trial) or a lifetime purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage it in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://boulosnoah-droid.github.io/cursus/en/terms.html Privacy: https://boulosnoah-droid.github.io/cursus/en/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Study Planner at daily against Cursus's every 4 days. Cursus's advantage is device support (5 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Study Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 6 months and Cursus sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Study Planner ships an update daily, Cursus every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Study Planner | Cursus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily β better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple Watch β better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 β better |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicolo Marinangeli | Kareem Boulos |
In-app purchases
Study Planner
- Unlimited exams for a semester$8.996 Months
- Unlimited exams for a year7 Days trial$12.991 Year
- Unlimited exams, forever$34.99
Cursus
- Cursus monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Cursus yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Cursus lifetime$39.99








