Studyo vs Smash Education
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/
Smash Education
This app offers a comprehensive platform for language learning, designed to make the process enjoyable and effective. It aims to provide users with all the tools they need to master new languages.
- Complete language learning solution
- Learn and love languages
- Engaging learning experience
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The most complete solution to learn and love Languages
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Studyo at every 4 days against Smash Education's fortnightly. Studyo also leads on review sentiment (37% vs 21%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Studyo holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Studyo's written reviews are positive against 21% of Smash Education's.
Studyo ships an update every 4 days, Smash Education fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Studyo | Smash Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (17 ratings) — better | 2.6 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.7% of reviews — better | 21.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intuitic Inc. | My Spanish Software Inc. |
Customer experience
Studyo
Smash Education
User reviews
Studyo
From 17 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful for planning
- 👍 Good for organizing tasks
- 👍 Clear course layout
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Works on computers
Room to improve
- 🐛 Laggy animations
- 🐛 Frequent disconnections
- 🐛 Constant need to sign in
- 🐛 Crashing issues
- 🐛 Softlocks phone
Smash Education
From 10 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📚 Effective language learning outcomes
- 🎮 Engaging gamified learning experience
- 💬 Improved speaking and conversation skills
- 📱 Interactive activities and games
- ✨ Better than traditional textbooks
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing
- 🐢 Extremely slow and laggy performance
- 🎤 Broken speech recognition system
- ❌ Marks correct answers as wrong
- 🖼️ Poor quality AI-generated images
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
Smash Education
Reported bugs
14 issues- Speech recognition fails to recognize correct pronunciation
- Correct answers marked as incorrect
- App crashes and kicks users out
- Screen freezes during activities
- Questions skip without completion
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- Buttons unresponsive or non-functional
- Audio lags and glitches
- Duplicate answer choices appear
- Completed sections revert to incomplete
- Some questions have no correct answer options
- Memory game locks until audio finishes
- Microphone does not work properly
- App runs extremely slowly on browsers
- Hangman questions have unfillable gaps
Requested features
7 requests- Slowed-down voice button for audio clarity
- Ability to see answers when stuck
- Offline functionality
- Private student pricing options
- Studies/research on app efficacy
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- Better microphone sensitivity control
- Improved directions in native language
In-app purchases
Studyo
No in-app purchases
Smash Education
No in-app purchases
Questions
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