School Days vs BitLife
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
School Days
Experience school life in a challenging environment where survival and academic success are key. Navigate classes, answer questions, and manage your popularity among students. Explore an interactive city and master various in-game controls to achieve your goals.
- Real-time school simulation
- Interactive city exploration
- Academic challenges and subjects
- Popularity contest mechanics
- Diverse in-game controls
- Customization options
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The prison has closed down and re-opened as a school, but the challenge to survive and thrive remains the same! Live every hour of every day in real-time - from getting out of bed in the morning to attending a timetable full of classes, as you explore a city filled with interactive props. Picking up knowledge from each class helps you answer real questions in 10 different subjects, as you work towards the grades you need to graduate. But with over 100 fellow students walking the halls, an equally important popularity contest decides whether your days are filled with fun or fear. Although the game is mostly free to play, you can upgrade to a "Private" education to remove ads and make the school your own - starting with a student of your own creation and saving your changes to all 10 classes as well as the teachers and civilians. Private students also benefit from a more continuous experience that never ends until you want it to. BASIC CONTROLS: In-game tutorials explain in more depth, but the basic controls are as follows: A = Attack (on its own to kick, with a direction to punch) G = Grapple / Throw R = Run P = Pick-Up / Drop (with a direction to prioritize objects, without to prioritize furniture) T = Taunt (interact with props) OTHER CONTROLS - Press ATTACK and RUN together to launch a powerful attack. - Press any button with any direction (or none) in a grapple to trigger different moves. - Press RUN and PICK-UP together to set fire to a small object (which can then be used to set fire to a large object). - Touch the clock or health meter to pause the game for more options. - Tap the speech bubbles to speed through conversations. PERFORMANCE - If you find your device struggles to display lots of characters, considering keeping the "Population" option low. - Head to the "Display" options to tone down other features. To learn more about this and other games, join the debate at: www.facebook.com/MDickieFans @MDickieDotcom
BitLife
This text-based life simulator allows you to make choices that shape your virtual life from birth to death. You can pursue a path of good deeds or embrace a life of crime and chaos. Every decision impacts your story, leading to unique outcomes.
- Text-based life simulation
- Choice-driven narrative
- Career and education paths
- Relationship and family simulation
- Crime and consequence system
- Multiple life outcomes
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How will you live your BitLife? Will you try to make all the right choices in an attempt to become a model citizen sometime before you die? You could marry the love of your life, have kids, and pick up a good job along the way. Or will you make choices that horrify your parents? You could descend into a life of crime, start trouble in prison, smuggle goods across country lines, and rob banks. It's all up to you... BitLife is the original text-based life simulator that lets you roleplay your life, your way. Create your story in this choice-driven simulation game. Build a perfect life, chase success, or embrace chaos. In this life simulation, every tap is a choice that changes what happens next in your story. Play a full roleplaying life from start to finish and shape your own life story. Choose your path through love, romance, relationships, and marriage or drama, betrayal, and scandal. Shape your life through careers, education, and risky choices, then watch your story unfold through the consequences of every decision. Virtual life is calling… CREATE YOUR STORY: - Live your BitLife as a model citizen… or a total wild card. - Build a dream life story: love, family, career, and success. - Or chase chaos: fame, scandal, and bad choices with big outcomes. - Your life, your identity, your story, your roleplay. LIFE SIMULATOR: - A text-based life simulator where choices stack up, year after year in a true simulation. - Shape your life through education, careers, and relationships. - Every decision changes your path, your story, and your ending. - No two lives, and no two stories, play out the same. DRAMA & CONSEQUENCES: - Break the rules: crime, prison trouble, smuggling, and bank robberies. - Cheat, betray, or stay loyal: your choices decide the fallout. - Take risks, face consequences, and deal with the chaos your story creates. - An interactive story and simulation where choices actually matter. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY: TikTok: @bitlifeapp X: @BitLifeApp Instagram: bitlifeapp This game is free to play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BitLife at 4.8 against School Days's 4.1. BitLife also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (1.8M vs 3.3K). School Days's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (67% vs 51%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. School Days sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BitLife sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BitLife holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BitLife has 1.8M ratings behind it against 3.3K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of School Days's written reviews are positive against 51% of BitLife's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
School Days ships an update every 3 months, BitLife every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | School Days | BitLife |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (3.3K ratings) | 4.8 (1.8M ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.3% of reviews — better | 51.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K | 1.8M — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #13 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 385 MB |
| Age rating | +17 | 17+ |
| Developer | MDickie Limited | Candywriter, LLC |
Customer experience
School Days
BitLife
Bugs and requests
School Days
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BitLife
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent behavior when adopting children
- Losing Bitizenship status after updates
- Certain jobs/careers not functioning properly
Requested features
6 requests- More family-related features (grandparents, aunts/uncles, etc.)
- Ability to start own business or company
- More crime-related activities and scenarios
- Expanded education and career options
- Deeper relationships with friends and coworkers
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- Randomized world events and news updates
In-app purchases
School Days
- Private Education$2.99
BitLife
- Time Machine Use$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Bitizenship$7.99
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- Investor Expansion Pack$7.99
- Landlord Expansion Pack$7.99
- C.U.L.T. Expansion Pack$7.99
- God Mode$9.99
- Bitizenship$9.99
- Bitizenship + God Mode$15.99
- Boss Mode$20.99









