Comparison
Schedull vs aSc TimeTables
aSc TimeTables is the broadest product in this comparison. Alongside timetable generation it sells substitutions, a class register, a school calendar, room booking and a mobile app for staff, students and families, in more than eleven interface languages. Schedull is deliberately narrower: it covers timetable setup, generation, review, editing, publishing, absences and exports, in English and Spanish, at prices published on the site. The honest split is scope against focus, and aSc publishes no prices while Schedull does.
Last updated: August 25, 2026 ยท Reviewed by the Schedull product team
Best fit
aSc is a suite; Schedull is one workflow. The question is how much of the school day you want inside the same product.
| Need | Better fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Registers, attendance, a school calendar and a family app in one place | aSc TimeTables | aSc sells the class register, calendar, room booking and mobile app as part of the same platform. Schedull does none of these. |
| A price you can read before you talk to anyone | Schedull | Schedull publishes every plan and renewal price. aSc directs visitors to contact the company for pricing. |
| Substitutions that notify the covering teacher | aSc TimeTables | aSc publishes substitution changes to its website and mobile app and updates registers and the calendar automatically. Schedull assigns cover but sends no notifications. |
| Exporting a finished timetable without a watermark while still evaluating | Schedull | aSc's free trial performs every function except export and watermarks printouts. Schedull's free week of Premium includes exports. |
Feature comparison
Last checked: 25 August 2026. aSc TimeTables details come from its own public pages, listed under Sources. Recheck them before a purchase decision.
| Area | Schedull | aSc TimeTables |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Web app in the browser. Nothing to install and nothing to keep in sync between machines. | Windows program plus Timetables Online in the browser on Mac, Windows, Linux and ChromeOS. No Mac desktop app. |
| Interface languages | English and Spanish. | More than eleven, including Spanish, German, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian and French. |
| Setup and data entry | Guided setup with four starting points: from scratch, from a template, from a spreadsheet, or from last year's project. | Data entry described as fast to enter and easy to customise, in the desktop program or online. |
| Imports | Excel, OpenDocument, CSV and zip files, plus reverse import that rebuilds classes, subjects and teachers from a finished timetable grid. | Data moves between the desktop and online versions. Import detail is not published on the main pages. |
| Teacher availability | Six levels per period, from unavailable through neutral to strongly preferred, so part-time patterns and mere preferences are not the same input. | Teacher availability is part of the criteria the school defines before generation. |
| Mandatory rules and preferences | Mandatory rules and weighted preferences at subject, class and teacher level: avoid a period, avoid a day, cap lessons per day in periods or minutes, keep lessons consecutive, same break for every class, tutor obligations, reduce teacher gaps. | Criteria defined by the school; the generator is described as evaluating over five million possibilities. |
| Split groups and co-teaching | Split groups run in parallel with their own teacher and their own allowed rooms; a lesson can also require two or more teachers at once. | Not described as separate concepts on the public pages. |
| Classrooms and buildings | Allowed rooms per subject and per split group, room availability on the same six-level scale, and movement penalties between buildings. Professional and Premium. | Room booking is a separate module that combines the timetable with room availability. |
| Before generation | A feasibility check runs first and blocks a run that cannot succeed, naming the class, teacher or room that makes it impossible. | Not described as a separate pre-generation check on the public pages. |
| After generation | A run report lists every preference the timetable had to break, so the result can be judged instead of just accepted. | Reports on classroom utilisation and teacher workload. |
| Manual editing | Conflict-checked drag and drop, with edit sessions you can leave and resume before committing. | Drag and drop editing, plus an AI panel that applies changes described in words. |
| Daily substitutions | Absence workspace on top of the published timetable: record an absence over a date range, see the lessons it hits day by day, and resolve each one with cover, supervision, a merged class, a cancellation, or no action. Cover suggestions are ranked and say why. No notifications yet. | Substitutions module: online absence management, recommended cover teachers, custom substitution types and absence reasons, changes published to the website and mobile app, and registers and calendars updated automatically. |
| Sharing and publishing | Publish a timetable to a shared day, week and month calendar inside the app. There are no public links and no student or family portal. | Publishes timetables and changes to a website and a mobile app for staff, students and families. |
| Exports | Excel, OpenDocument, PowerPoint, PDF, PNG zip and CSV zip, by class and by teacher. Professional and Premium; Basic cannot export. | Export is the one function excluded from the free trial; printouts from the trial carry a watermark. Paid export formats are not listed on the main pages. |
| AI assistance | An assistant that turns a plain description into draft setup and rules, always as a change set you apply or discard. Metered at 5, 20 or unlimited messages a day by plan. | An AI panel that takes natural language requests for timetable modifications. |
Pricing comparison (last checked: 25 August 2026)
aSc does not publish prices on its site; the prices page directs visitors to contact the company. Third-party listings quote figures, but they disagree with each other and none of them is the vendor, so this page does not repeat them. Schedull's prices are published in full. Ask aSc for a written quote for your teacher count before comparing the two.
| Plan or aspect | Schedull | aSc TimeTables |
|---|---|---|
| Prices published on the vendor site | Yes, every plan and every renewal price. | No. The prices page directs visitors to a contact form. |
| Billing model | Annual subscription per school, 40% off the first year. | Licence purchase with optional add-on modules. Regional distributors describe bundled years of updates. |
| Evaluating for free | A free week of Premium, card required, with exports included. Institutional trials can be requested. | A trial with no time limit that performs every function except export, and watermarks printouts. |
| What the price covers | Timetabling, substitutions and the shared calendar, on one plan. | Timetabling, with substitutions, register, calendar, room booking and the mobile app presented as further modules. |
Strengths and limitations
Where aSc TimeTables is stronger: it covers far more of the school day, with registers, a calendar, room booking and an app for families; its substitutions module publishes changes and updates registers automatically rather than leaving the school to pass the message on; it runs in more than eleven languages; it offers a desktop program for schools that want to work offline; and its trial has no time limit.
Where Schedull is stronger: prices are published, so a school can budget without a sales conversation; exports run to six formats on any paid plan with no watermark; teacher availability is a six-level scale rather than a yes-or-no box; a feasibility check refuses an impossible run and names the cause; a run report lists every preference the timetable broke; and there is nothing to install on any machine.
Which should you choose?
Choose aSc TimeTables if the timetable is one part of a wider system you want from one vendor, if attendance registers and a family app matter as much as generation, if you need an interface language other than English or Spanish, or if your substitutions process depends on the covering teacher being notified automatically.
Choose Schedull if the timetable is the problem you are solving, if you want to see the price before you talk to anyone, if you want exports in six formats without watermark restrictions, or if you would rather be told a timetable is impossible before a run than find out afterwards.
FAQ
How much does aSc TimeTables cost?
aSc does not publish prices on its site; its prices page sends visitors to a contact form. Several review sites quote starting figures, but they disagree and none is the vendor, so ask aSc for a written quote for your teacher count. Schedull publishes every plan price and every renewal price. Checked 25 August 2026.
Which product handles substitutions better?
aSc, today. Both record absences and recommend a cover teacher, but aSc publishes the change to its website and mobile app and updates class registers and the calendar automatically. Schedull shows the coordinator every affected lesson and a ranked list of free teachers with the reason for each suggestion, but it sends no notifications, so someone still has to tell the covering teacher.
Does Schedull work on a Mac?
Yes. Schedull runs in the browser, so the machine does not matter. aSc has no Mac desktop application; Mac users are directed to its online version.
Is a narrower product a disadvantage?
It depends on what your school already runs. If you have a management system you are happy with, a suite adds overlap and migration work. If you do not, a suite saves you buying several products. Schedull assumes the school already has its administration covered and only needs the timetable to work.