My Study Guide vs Ikiru
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Study Guide
Create and review custom study guides for any subject or exam. Easily add questions and answers to build your personal learning material. Access your guides on your Apple Watch for convenient on-the-go studying.
- Custom study guide creation
- Question and answer input
- On-the-go review
- Apple Watch integration
- Easy guide browsing
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My Study Guide helps you study for anything. From quizzes, tests, exams, certifications, etc. You just need to: * Give your study guide a name * Enter your questions and answers My Study Guide will help you review everything you entered into it. With new added ability to browse your study guides easily on your Apple Watch, you should have no problems studying on the go. Please contact us using the support link below for any errors/bugs/feature requests.
Ikiru
Organize your life with this versatile app for creating lists, taking notes, and setting reminders. It helps you focus on what's important with a beautiful, user-friendly design and powerful features like nested lists and due dates.
- Create nested lists
- Set due dates and reminders
- Add photos to list items
- Sort list items dynamically
- Sync data via iCloud
- Protect data with Touch ID/passcode
- View items on Apple Watch
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Ikiru is a simple but powerful app for making lists, keeping notes and setting reminders. It aims to help you live a productive and meaningful life, by enabling you to focus on the things that are most important to you. IKIRU IS VERSATILE Use it to create to do lists, shopping lists, take notes, store contact information, keep track of books to read, or movies to watch... or anything else you'd want to make a list for. IKIRU IS BEAUTIFUL With a clean and easy to use design, choose from over 2000 icons to assign to your lists. IKIRU IS POWERFUL - create lists within lists - assign a due date and reminder to list items - view all items with a due date in one convenient timeline - add a photo to list items - drag and drop to sort list items, or automatically keep a list sorted alphabetically, by modification date, completion date, and more - easily copy or move items from one list to another - mark items incomplete to return them to their original position in the list (this makes lists easy to reuse) - send a list via email, and the receiver can import your list into their copy of Ikiru - view items with due dates on your Apple Watch IKIRU KEEPS YOUR DATA SAFE - automatically back up and sync lists between iOS devices using iCloud - use Touch ID or a custom passcode to protect your information IKIRU HAS PURPOSE The word "ikiru" (ee-kee-roo) means "to live" in Japanese. It's also the title of an Akira Kurosawa film about a man who decides to do something meaningful with his life. Ikiru (the app) is my attempt at doing something meaningful with my life, and hopefully help others live meaningful and productive lives. IKIRU HAS HISTORY In 2010 I released a list-making app called "Paperless". From busy moms to airplane pilots to people who needed a little help remembering things after suffering a brain injury, Paperless has been used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Ikiru is built upon that legacy - incorporating the best ideas from Paperless, greatly improving upon them, and adding big features that people have requested. IKIRU NEEDS LOVE If you find Ikiru useful, please rate and review it in the App Store. Thank you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: My Study Guide at Free against Ikiru's $4.99. Ikiru's advantage is rating (3.9 vs 2.3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
My Study Guide is free to download; Ikiru costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ikiru holds the better App Store score, 3.9 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ikiru has 101 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
My Study Guide ships an update every 3 months, Ikiru every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Study Guide | Ikiru |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 3.9 (101 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 54.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 101 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pablo Arista | James Rhoades |
Customer experience
My Study Guide
Ikiru
Bugs and requests
My Study Guide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ikiru
Reported bugs
4 issues- Reminders not working properly
- Syncing issues causing data loss
- Crashes after iOS updates
- Inability to disable Face ID lock
Requested features
5 requests- Add more formatting options (bold, italic, etc.)
- Improve search to allow searching within sublists
- Provide more customization options for themes and icons
- Add location-based reminders
- Implement better backup and restore functionality
In-app purchases
My Study Guide
No in-app purchases
Ikiru
No in-app purchases









