Studyo vs Boreal Tales
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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/
Boreal Tales
This educational game encourages K-8 students to write and be creative by building fantastical worlds and telling interactive stories. Teachers manage student accounts, create challenges, and review student work through a dedicated website.
- World building with over 1000 objects
- Themed object collections
- Cloud saving for cross-device access
- Teacher-managed accounts and challenges
- Interactive storytelling and text annotation
- Classroom sharing of student work
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Boreal Tales is an educational game which motivates your K-8 students to write and stimulates their creativity. All while they’re creating fantastical worlds, filled to the brim with life, color, and personality. The game is principally designed to be used in class. The teacher manages the game through a website where they will create accounts for their students to login to the game. There they will also be able to create challenges, which the students will use to guide their creations in the game. Once they’ve been assigned a challenge, the students will use their imagination to create stories; placing buildings, objects and people on their worlds and annotating them with dialogues, descriptions, and other text. The website allows the teacher to correct the text that their student’s have written, and when the students have finished their work, the teacher can share a student’s work with the rest of the class. Main Features: - The players have the choice of over 1000 different objects and characters to construct their worlds. New objects are being added all the time! - These items are grouped by themes: Medieval-Fantasy, Miniature World, Western, History, Space and more! No matter your taste, there are objects which will inspire your creativity. - The student’s creations are securely saved on the cloud. Worlds can be accessed from any device the game is installed on, just login and continue your creation where you left off. Boreal Tales is an ecosystem which stimulates literary and artistic creation, it offers students an environment where they can build worlds and tell interactive stories. Through writing and exploration, they can practice the writing skills they’ve learnt in class. Note: This game cannot be played without the creation of a user account by a teacher responsible for the class. Consult our site www.borealtales.info for more information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boreal Tales at 100% against Studyo's 36%. Boreal Tales also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). Studyo's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Studyo ships an update every 4 days, Boreal Tales every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studyo | Boreal Tales |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 35.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intuitic Inc. | Nanomonx Inc. |
Customer experience
Studyo
Boreal Tales
Bugs and 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
Boreal Tales
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Studyo
No in-app purchases
Boreal Tales
No in-app purchases









