Comparison

BookWidgets vs Studyo

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

Head to head
About

BookWidgets

Easily create interactive lessons, quizzes, and games for students on iPads and iPhones. Share engaging activities privately or embed them in learning platforms. Track student progress with built-in analytics.

Highlights
  • Create worksheets, quizzes, games, maps, and timelines
  • Add custom text, images, and questions
  • Share activities via private links or LMS embedding
  • Works on any device
  • Track learner activity and grade student work
  • Integrates with other educational apps
Features
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Create engaging exercises for iPads and iPhones in minutes: Worksheets, Games, Quizzes, Maps, Timelines, and much more. Easily share a wide variety of beautiful and fun activities with your classroom, even if you're not a tech wizard. Choose from a broad range of activity types, and add your own text, images, questions and imagination. Your “widget” can be shared privately with a simple link, or embedded in any learning management system, and works on any device. BookWidgets is great for blended learning, flipped classrooms, as well as more traditional classrooms. Our analytics can track learner activity, so teachers can easily review and grade student work. BookWidgets works seamlessly with other educational apps like Showbie, iTunes U, iBooks Author, Explain Everything, Book Creator and many others. -------- “With BookWidgets, teachers don't have to force the kids to work on their exercises. They can fill in gaps and practice lessons as many times as they wish. This makes good students better and average students achieve levels they hadn't even aspired to before.” - Brian Dawson, 1:1 iPad Coordinator “If you aren't using BookWidgets in your 1:1 classroom, you are missing out on one of the best educational tools available.” - Harry Dickens, Instructional Technology Consultant “Using BookWidgets is just brilliant, I'm only limited by my own creativity now.” - Frans Ittmann, Apple Distinguished Educator “My pupils were cheering in class today, because they got BookWidgets for homework. Feeling motivated!“ - Martin Ringenaldus, Language teacher

About

Studyo

This app helps students get organized for college and life by managing tasks and schedules. Its timeline view displays ongoing and upcoming tasks, integrating with existing calendars and adapting to complex schedules. It functions as a project management system for academic planning.

Highlights
  • Innovative timeline view for tasks
  • Individual tasks displayed as icons
  • Project management system for academics
  • Share configurations or tasks
  • Integrates with iPad calendars
  • Cloud-enabled accounts
  • Adapts to complex schedules
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Get ready for college and the world by learning to get organized. Students absolutely love Studyo and use it many times a day. Schools have adopted Studyo to better prepare students for College and for life, replacing paper planners and other solutions, complementing their admin systems and LMS. Never forget anything again with the innovative timeline view which shows ongoing and upcoming tasks. Including personal tasks. With individual tasks displayed as icons within course periods, this is not a calendar or todo app but a whole Project Management System! Share your configuration or tasks with others. Great for teachers. And so much more: Display and interact with the iPad's built-in calendars Cloud-enabled accounts so you never lose data Adapts to any schedule, as complex as it may be, including rotating day schedules, and including ped days, holidays or events. Tasks are displayed both on their entry date and due date in day view. Terms of service: https://studyo.co/terms-of-service/

Screenshots

BookWidgets4 screens
Studyo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Studyo at 2.8 against BookWidgets's 1.7. Studyo also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (36% vs 12%). BookWidgets's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Studyo holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 12% of BookWidgets's written reviews are positive against 36% of Studyo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BookWidgets ships an update monthly, Studyo every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
BookWidgets versus Studyo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBookWidgetsStudyo
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (30 ratings)2.8 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.8% of reviews36.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better17
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKidimediaIntuitic Inc.

Customer experience

BookWidgets

All ratings30 ratings
Positive13.3%
Neutral3.3%
Negative83.3%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive11.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative82.4%

Studyo

All ratings17 ratings
Positive47.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative52.9%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive36.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative59.3%

Bugs and requests

BookWidgets

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Studyo

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Animations are sloppy and sluggish on iOS
  • Constantly getting disconnected from account
  • Softlocked phone by opening 1200 tabs in Safari
  • Opened hundreds of Chrome pages, phone was bugging
  • Notifications not working (button doesn't save)
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  • Classroom link not working
  • Files link not working
  • Login window disappears before identification
  • App crashes constantly
  • App won't open on phone
  • Cannot login, always says loading
  • App stopped working suddenly
  • Sends user out when clicked
  • Cracked whole iPad, had to pay for a new one
  • Cannot open after update
  • Kept 'loading' after entering info
  • Lost account 3 times
  • Login screen has a loading circle that never goes away
  • Newest update claimed to fix crashes, but didn't
  • Cannot get past schedule creation page, froze iPad

Requested features

7 requests
  • Bring back the old version
  • Allow connection with Google
  • Make it compatible for Mac
  • Add a night/black background
  • Add widget bar functionality
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  • Allow independent individuals to use it
  • Bring back personal use option

In-app purchases

None

BookWidgets

No in-app purchases

None

Studyo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BookWidgets free?
BookWidgets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Studyo free?
Studyo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BookWidgets or Studyo?
Studyo is rated higher. BookWidgets averages 1.7 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Studyo averages 2.8 from 17 ratings.
Do BookWidgets or Studyo have ads?
Neither BookWidgets nor Studyo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BookWidgets or Studyo?
BookWidgets ships an update monthly, and Studyo every 4 days. Most recently, BookWidgets was updated on October 6, 2026 and Studyo on October 7, 2026.

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