Comparison

Planboard vs Classify

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

Head to head
About

Planboard

This app helps educators create, edit, and organize lesson plans with curriculum standards and attachments. It features a beautiful timetable view and syncs across devices, allowing teachers to plan on the go and reduce prep time.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and share lesson plans
  • Organize timetable, subjects, and semesters
  • Manage curriculum standards
  • Add attachments to lesson plans
  • Syncs with web version
  • Easy setup
Features
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Plan lessons on the go in an easy-to-use editor with curriculum standards and attachments. Planboard organizes your lessons, subjects, and semesters in a beautiful timetable that is with you everywhere. Join over 250,000 teachers around the world who are already using Planboard to cut down their classroom prep time and spend more time with students! —————————————————————————————— FEATURES • 100% free for teachers! • Create, edit, and share lesson plans • Organize your timetable, subjects, and semesters • Manage curriculum standards • Take photos and add files to lesson plans • Syncs with Planboard on the web • Fast and easy to get set up WHAT TEACHERS ARE SAYING “A fantastic app that has transformed my lesson planning...I have dumped my old paper planner for good. This is an excellent app.” - benjro “I love this program! I can create my lessons in a jiffy- dare I say lesson planning is almost *fun* now?! I can even do lesson planning while on the go because the program now syncs with the app- SCORE! I love being able to be out and about and not have to be tied to my computer, but if I think of something for a lesson, I can just plug it right in!...And all of this awesomeness is on the FREE version. I love this software!!!” - Tater and her tots “I have been looking for a planning and attendance app for so long! This app is absolutely perfect, whether you’re using it on your iPad, iPhone or using the online site on your computer it works flawlessly! Thank you so much!” - Ethie56 “This app is exactly what I was looking for! I have tried many digital planning options and this is by far the best. Being able to change my planner easily on my iPad or computer makes it so easy to change plans and have them there ready to go...Great app!” - J.Lee.17 “So much better than planning in a paper based planner. I like being able to check my lessons or add to them as ideas occur to me using my phone on the go.” - KT28363838 “Will render you pencil & paper daybook obsolete. It is fantastic for your day to day planning and makes printing off a paper copy for a supply teacher super easy” - Mr.Esss “I have been using it for three years now and love the planning/assessment tools. My principal asked me to inform the rest of the staff about this program. It has helped me make my teaching more organized.” - Stolenfeather “I feel as though I would not be as organized without Chalk! And the fact that it’s free makes it even more amazing! As we know as teachers we spend a lot of our own money on supplies for our students and having a program this amazing for free means I can spend more on my students so thank you!” - btpuggy “I wish I had found Planboard years ago! It has changed my entire approach to planning lessons! I cannot recommend this app enough” - BryarsMom SUPPORT The Chalk Team can be reached anytime by email at support@chalk.com, or during the day by live chat to assist you with getting the most out of Planboard.

About

Classify

This app helps students organize their academic life by managing homework, schedules, and events. It features collaborative class group chats for effortless information sharing and a focus mode with a Pomodoro timer to boost productivity. Track your progress with detailed statistics and stay on top of your commitments.

Highlights
  • Class group chats for homework and event sharing
  • Digital homework diary with reminders
  • Focus mode with Pomodoro timer and study playlists
  • Intuitive timetable with alternating schedule support
  • Event and club management with calendar view
  • Detailed statistics on task completion and study habits
Features
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Whether you are attending elementary school, high school or college, Classify is the only organization app you’ll ever need. Now with the ability to create class group chats, you can share information about homework, events and clubs in one click, so you can let your classmates and friends organize for you. Getting down your homework, managing your timetable, events and clubs, plus a distraction-free space to stay focused, all in one app. KEY FEATURES: LET OTHERS ORGANIZE FOR YOU Our new class group chat feature, Classroom, allows you to share your homework, clubs and events all in one click. When you’re in a classroom and a classmate shares one of these to the group chat, it will automatically be added to your planner, details and all! Organization without effort. Now complete with subchats to discuss specific homework and events within a Classroom that get automatically archived over time. WRITE IT DOWN. LEVEL UP. Our digital homework diary means you will never forget to do your homework. Add details including the type of homework, what teacher has set it, add files and images, set reminders to not miss the deadline and more! FOCUS LIKE A PRO Stay fully focused with help of our latest feature, Zone, which helps you stay concentrated and stop procrastinating, leaving more time to do the things you love most. With an integrated pomodoro timer, curated study playlists and to-do lists, you can get more work done, in less time. STAY AHEAD OF YOUR SCHEDULE Quick and easy to set up, our intuitively-designed timetable means you will know exactly where to be and at what time. With flexibility and personalisation at its core, the timetable helps you know exactly what your day looks like — so forget roaming around the corridors cluelessly on your first day of school. Now supports alternating timetables. EVENTS AND CLUBS School life is stressful. You have to balance curricular and extra-curricular activities, and it can get overwhelming. Classify helps keep stress out of your routine and is your companion to help you remember about all your events, commitments, and responsibilities to make sure you can plan out your day-to-day and succeed in achieving all your ambitions. Set reminders, specify the frequency of the event, and then view it at a glance on our calendar view to never miss a meeting again. DETAILED STATISTICS TO HELP YOU IMPROVE Ever wondered what teacher gave out the most homework? And how many hours of your life you’ve spent on studying? And how much time you spent doing chores and other tasks on your to-do list? Classify can now answer all those questions with our stats page – which dives deep into your tasks and homework completed, what teachers and subjects are most homework-heavy, and how many hours you spend working on the things you’ve added to Classify. Because improving your workflow starts by understanding your current study habits and knowing where to improve. KEEP TRACK OF DAILY TASKS AND HABITS Academic success is achieved through more than just studying and doing your homework – so we developed Tasks to help you keep track and get reminded of any chores and other tasks you have to do. Sort tasks based on urgency to compartmentalise everything on your to-do list. … and so much more! Download Classify today to make organization the easiest step in your academic success. We would love for you to join the Classify family and be a part of our growing community! - Follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @classifyapp - Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/EYSZ5QEEYC All legal information, including privacy policy and terms & conditions, are viewable here: https://classify.org.uk/legal

Screenshots

Planboard4 screens
Classify4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Classify at free against Planboard's free with in-app purchases. Classify also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 62%). Planboard's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 223). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Planboard against 4.6 for Classify. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planboard has 1.9K ratings behind it against 223, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Planboard's written reviews are positive against 76% of Classify's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planboard ships an update every 6 weeks, Classify every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Planboard versus Classify: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanboardClassify
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.9K ratings) — better4.6 (223 ratings)
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews75.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.9K — better223
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB181 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPowerSchool Group LLCPrincipal Technologies Ltd

Customer experience

Planboard

All ratings1,863 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral2.0%
Negative3.7%
Written reviews187 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative31.6%

Classify

All ratings221 ratings
Positive91.0%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews98 reviews
Positive75.5%
Neutral11.2%
Negative13.3%

User reviews

Planboard

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient for planning on the go
  • 💡 Customizable templates
  • 🚀 Flexible scheduling
  • 👍 Helpful for organization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and glitches
  • 🐛 Scheduling issues
  • 🐛 Inability to add classes or subjects
  • 🐛 Incompatibility with Apple Pencil
  • 🐛 Lack of offline functionality

Classify

From 223 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • 💰 Completely free with no in-app purchases
  • 📚 Comprehensive homework and task management
  • 🎨 Sleek, visually appealing design
  • ⏱️ Pomodoro study session feature

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing
  • 🐛 Data loss and disappearing tasks/homework
  • 🐛 Login and signup screen issues
  • 🐛 Homework/task page fails to load
  • 🐛 Unable to add tasks or events

Bugs and requests

Planboard

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when adding classes
  • Scheduling issues with non-standard time slots
  • Inability to log in or create account
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Lesson plan data loss

Requested features

7 requests
  • Month view option
  • Unit planning view
  • Ability to add events/meetings
  • Google Calendar integration
  • Behavior tracking/logging
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  • More curriculum standard options
  • Offline access

Classify

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Blank screen after signup
  • Username page stuck, cannot proceed past signup
  • App fails to open on multiple devices
  • Cannot add tasks or events
  • Homework/task page fails to load regularly
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  • Homework data deletes itself after marking complete
  • Homework data disappears after updates
  • Glitches erase entered homework/test information
  • Cannot save edited timetable times
  • Homework type duplicates when creating assignments
  • Classes switch around and times change automatically
  • Homework duplicates when added
  • Users logged out unexpectedly
  • Teacher names not saving
  • Add subject feature not working
  • Timetable screen completely blank
  • Add subject screen extremely glitchy

Requested features

20 requests
  • Widget support for home screen
  • Custom color themes and personalization
  • Two-week timetable (Week A/B) support
  • Ability to edit homework after creation
  • Custom time slots for lessons
Show 15 more
  • Recurring homework/events feature
  • Teacher name auto-save functionality
  • Link integration in homework details
  • Ability to add custom task types
  • Scan papers/projects into app
  • Holiday scheduling feature
  • Custom profile picture option
  • Apple Calendar integration
  • Bar graphs instead of line graphs for statistics
  • Ability to customize number of periods per day
  • Custom day names for timetables
  • Month overview on app opening
  • Larger font size for tasks
  • Upload custom songs for music
  • Block school time from study timetable

In-app purchases

None

Planboard

No in-app purchases

None

Classify

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planboard free?
Planboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Classify free?
Classify is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Planboard or Classify?
Planboard is rated higher. Planboard averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Classify averages 4.6 from 223 ratings.
Do Planboard or Classify have ads?
Neither Planboard nor Classify shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Planboard or Classify?
Planboard ships an update every 6 weeks, and Classify every 2 months. Most recently, Planboard was updated on September 19, 2026 and Classify on September 1, 2026.

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