MyStudyLife vs Saturn

MyStudyLife

• School and university students with rotating or block timetables
• Keeping homework, exams and grades in one place
• Parents who want to follow a child's deadlines

Saturn

• High school students with rotating, block or A/B day schedules
• Friends who want to see when each other are free without swapping emails
• Clubs and teams that need a shared calendar members join by link

MyStudyLife

• The free plan holds up to 5 tasks at a time. Subtasks, repeating tasks, Calendar Sync and Activities need MSL+.
• On the free plan Scout is limited to the first timetable scan and a few chats.
• The vendor lists web, iPhone and Android versions only. There is no separate Mac or Windows app.
• Prices are from the US App Store description, which says they may vary by region. The vendor's MSL+ page lists no price.

Saturn

• Mobile apps only: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android. No web or desktop version is listed.
• The website still presents Saturn as the calendar built for high school, and the terms limit each school community to students of that school.
• Google Calendar is the only outside calendar the store listings name as a connection.
• The terms of use require users to be at least 13 years old.

MyStudyLife

Class timetable

Handles weekly, rotating, week A/B, block and custom schedules, with term and holiday dates. Classes pause during holidays so no reminders are sent for them.

Homework and task tracking

Tasks carry a due date and a reminder, and progress can be logged as partly complete. Subtasks, repeating tasks and the full set of task types are MSL+ features.

Exams and grades

Exams are stored with date, time, room and seat and shown with countdowns. Revision tasks can be tied to an exam, and grades are logged as results come in.

Scout AI study coach

Builds a timetable from a photo or screenshot, plans the week and drafts revision plans from exam dates. The first scan and a few chats are free; MSL+ removes the limits.

Pomodoro focus timer

A built-in timer for studying in set intervals with breaks, kept in the same app as the tasks being worked on.

Family Connect

A separate paid companion app that lets a parent or guardian see a linked student's schedule, homework, exams and grades, and add tasks or events to it.

Saturn

School schedule formats

Handles rotating periods, block schedules, A/B days, lunch waves, advisory and flex blocks. The listing says Saturn is in over 20,000 US high schools and can be carried on to college.

Compare calendars with friends

Shows when friends and family are free without needing their email address, so overlapping free time can be turned into a plan. Friends appear alongside your own calendar on the home tab.

Shared and group calendars

A shared calendar can be made for a trip, a household, a club or a team and joined through a link. Members get change and reminder notifications as events are updated.

Typed or spoken event entry

Typing or saying a phrase such as "Dinner with Dylan on Tuesday at 7" puts the event on the calendar. Events, to-dos and reminders can all be added by text or voice.

Google Calendar and Snapchat

Google Calendar can be connected so its events appear in Saturn. Connecting Snapchat brings in friends, birthdays and Bitmojis.

Apple Watch app and widgets

The Apple Watch app shows a countdown to the end of the current class or event, a schedule view of the day and watch face widgets, synced from the iPhone app.

MyStudyLife

• Free$0

  Timetable, calendar, exams with countdowns, subjects and reminders on every device, with up to 5 tasks at a time.

• MyStudyLife+ (Individual)$6.99

  per month, or $39.99 per year

  Unlimited tasks, subtasks and repeating tasks, unlimited Scout AI, Calendar Sync, Activities, every task and exam type, and personalization.

• Family Connect, 1 Student$9.99

  per month, or $59.99 per year

  Parent companion app linked to one student's planner. The vendor says the linked student also unlocks MSL+.

• Family Connect, 2 Students$14.99

  per month, or $89.99 per year

  The same parent view of schedules, homework, exams and grades for two linked students.

• Family Connect, 3-5 Students$19.99

  per month, or $119.99 per year

  Covers three to five linked students under one parent subscription, the largest size offered.

• MyStudyLife for SchoolsCustom

  Premium unlocked for a named cohort or every student on roll, with rollout guides and a named contact. Arranged through a demo.

Saturn

• Saturn Calendar$0

  The complete app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, listed as free with no in-app purchases on the US App Store.

MyStudyLife

• Annual discount

  About 52% less on the yearly MyStudyLife+ plan

  The US App Store description lists MyStudyLife+ at $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year, which it gives as the equivalent of $3.33 a month.

Saturn

No public discounts listed.