Helium vs School Planner

Helium is a free planner for organizing classes, homework, grades, notes, and academic workload. Its grade tools calculate results in real time, let students test hypothetical scores, and estimate what is needed on a final to reach a target grade. Scheduling offers Month, Week, 3-Day, Day, and Agenda views with color coding, filters, search, and drag-and-drop. Push notifications on iOS, Android, and web, or email reminders, can cover assignments, classes, exams, and events. Helium supports two-way syncing with Google, Apple, other calendars, and iCal sources. Notes can include headings, lists, quotes, links, and search, and can connect to classes or assignments. The open-source service provides a public REST API for actions available in its apps, though it does not maintain official tooling or pre-built integrations. Users can access, export, or delete their data, and full schedules can be exported as JSON. Data is stored and processed on servers in the United States. Helium says it suits middle school, high school, college, university, graduate school, and homeschool students.

School Planner is a student planner for keeping timetables, homework, exams, grades, and attendance in one place. It also covers notes, holidays, reminders, instructors, semesters, classes, courses, events, and tasks. Class schedules can repeat weekly or every two weeks on odd or even weeks, appear as one-off lessons, or be marked canceled. Grades can be connected to a subject and type, weighted, and recorded using one of 15 grading systems. Attendance can be tracked by day or subject, with configurable limits for absences and lateness and separate handling for excused absences. The service is available on the web, iOS, Android, and macOS, with one account across browser and mobile. Parents can view upcoming classes, assignments, exams, and reminders. The Free plan costs nothing; the web app has no ads, while the mobile apps show ads. The web app requires an internet connection to load and save changes.