A free study planner with no sign-up: timetable, exams and a revision plan
If you want a free alternative to MyStudyLife that keeps your timetable, homework and exams in one place, open Study Planner. It runs in your browser, needs no account, and does one thing most planners leave to you: it builds a day-by-day revision plan from today to each exam date, using only the study time you say you have.
Step by step
- Open Study Planner. On the first visit you can press Try with an example to see a filled-in term, or Add your first subject to start with your own.
- In Subjects, add each subject you take this term with a colour, the teacher and the room.
- In Timetable, press Add class (or the small + on a day) and pick the subject, day, start and end time, type (lecture, lab, tutorial, seminar) and room. Your week appears as columns, one per day.
- In Tasks, add homework, assignments, reading or projects with a due date. Tick them off when they are done. Late ones are marked as overdue.
- In Exams, press Add exam. Choose the subject, give it a name such as "Midterm", set the date, time and room, choose how hard it is for you, and list the topics to revise, one per line.
- Open Revision plan. Under Your study time, set how many minutes you can revise on each day of the week and how long one session is. The plan below updates straight away.
- Each day, open Today: it shows today's classes, the revision sessions planned for today, tasks due in the next 7 days and your upcoming exams. Tick sessions as you finish them. The Focus timer button opens a separate Pomodoro-style timer.
- Missed a day? The planner shows how many sessions you missed. Press Re-plan and the work moves to the days ahead. Sessions you already ticked stay where they are.
- In Settings, press Save backup file now and then, and use Save .ics file if you want your classes, exams and sessions in your phone's calendar.
Who it helps
- University students before midterms. Three exams in two weeks is where planning by hand breaks down. The planner does the nearest exam first, puts a final review as close to each exam as your study time allows, and warns you when a subject does not fit in the time you gave it.
- School students with a two-week timetable. Turn on week rotation and mark classes as week A or week B. The Today page and the calendar file follow the right week.
- Arabic-speaking students. The whole planner switches to Arabic with right-to-left layout, and the week can start on Saturday or Sunday.
- Anyone who just wants a list. If you only need homework with due dates and a simple weekly timetable, you can ignore the revision plan entirely.
Why it's private
Study Planner is a static page. Your subjects, classes, exams and tasks are saved in your own browser's storage on your device and are never uploaded. The page's security policy blocks it from sending data to other websites, and it works offline after the first visit. Clearing your browser data deletes the planner, so keep a backup file.
Tips and limits
- How many sessions an exam gets: by default, 1 session per topic for an easy subject, 1.5 for medium and 2 for hard, plus a final review. If you list no topics, it plans 3, 5 or 8 sessions plus the review. You can type your own number in the exam's Revision sessions field.
- Sessions are not fixed to a clock time. The plan says which day and for how long; you choose when. In the calendar file they appear as all-day items.
- No sync and no notifications. Unlike apps with an account, it cannot remind you when the page is closed and it does not copy your data between devices. Use the backup file or the .ics export instead.
- Keyboard shortcuts: keys 1 to 7 switch sections, N adds an item in the current section, and ? shows the list.
- Printing: the Timetable and Revision plan pages have a Print button for a paper copy.
- It does not track grades. For that, use the GPA calculator.
FAQ
Is Study Planner really free?
Yes. There is no paid plan, no account and no limit on subjects, tasks or exams. It is a static web page that runs in your browser.
How does the automatic revision plan work?
For each upcoming exam it works out how many sessions you need from the number of topics and how hard the subject is for you, then spreads them over the days between today and the exam, never using more minutes than you set for that weekday. The last session before each exam is a final review. The nearest exam is planned first.
Does it sync between my phone and laptop?
No. Your planner is saved in the browser you use. To move it, save a backup file in Settings and open it on the other device. You can also save an .ics calendar file and import it into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook.
Does my school timetable with week A and week B work?
Yes. Turn on week rotation in Settings, say whether this week is week A or week B, and mark each class as every week, week A or week B.
Is it available in Arabic?
Yes. Press the language button at the top of the planner to switch the whole planner to Arabic, right to left. Press it again to go back to English.
Related tools
- Focus Timer: Pomodoro-style timer for your revision sessions.
- Flashcards: turn your topics into cards to test yourself.
- GPA Calc: work out your grade point average.
- Todo List: a plain list for everything that isn't schoolwork.
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