Planr.ai — everything school, in one place

What Planr.ai does

Planr.ai is a study and organisation app for students. It does three jobs that are normally split across three separate subscriptions: it tracks what you have to do and when it is due, it turns your own course material into things you can actually study from, and it records lectures and writes them up as organised notes.

It is built for high-school and early-university students carrying five or six subjects at once — people with limited time, several deadlines landing on the same days, and no interest in maintaining a system for its own sake.

Your work arrives on its own

Connect the platform your school already uses and assignments and due dates arrive without you typing them. Canvas works through its API or a calendar feed, Schoology through your own API key, and Google Classroom and Blackboard through their calendar links. Anything publishing an .ics feed — PowerSchool, Moodle, Brightspace, or a calendar a teacher shares — connects too.

The calendar then shows you the thing that actually causes trouble: the week where three subjects have quietly chosen the same Thursday. You cannot plan around a pile-up you have not seen, and noticing it on the day is too late.

Turn your material into something you can study

Paste your notes, upload a document, or photograph a textbook page. From that, Planr builds a study guide, a flashcard deck, or a practice test in exam format. Decks can be worked through as plain flashcards, in a Learn mode that concentrates on the cards you keep getting wrong, or as a timed matching game.

The practice tests are the most valuable and the most avoided. Sitting one closed-book and timed is the only way to find out which topics collapse under pressure while there is still time to do something about it.

Record the lecture instead of racing it

Typing notes and listening compete for the same attention: whatever you are writing, you are not hearing. Record the class, listen properly, and get organised notes back rather than a wall of transcript.

The methods it is built on

The app is only useful because these work, and they work whether or not you use any app at all. This is the short version — the handbook covers all of it properly.

Rereading feels like studying and mostly is not

When you reread a page it gets easier to read, and that fluency feels like knowledge. But recognition and recall are different abilities. An exam never asks you to recognise the right page — it asks you to produce the content with nothing in front of you. Rereading trains the ability you are not tested on, and it builds confidence faster than competence. That gap is why people walk out of exams genuinely surprised.

Active recall

Retrieving information from memory without looking at it. That is the whole definition. It works because pulling something out of memory makes it easier to pull out next time — considerably more than putting it in again does. Testing yourself is not just how you check what you know; it is one of the most efficient ways to learn it.

The cheapest version needs no tools at all: close the book, write down everything you remember, then check and mark the gaps in another colour.

The good methods feel worse

Active recall is uncomfortable. You will produce a third of what you expected and it will feel like failure. That feeling is the method working — it is you finding out what you do not know while there is still time to fix it. Researchers call this desirable difficulty, and the practical consequence is that you cannot judge a study session by how smooth it felt.

Spread it out, and work on your half-knowns

Three twenty-minute sessions across a week beat one hour on Friday, using identical total time. And when time is short, spend it on the topics you half-know rather than the ones you do not know at all: a half-known topic takes an hour or two to reach full marks, while a genuinely unknown one needs five hours to reach the same place.

What a week with it looks like

Sunday evening, the calendar already holds everything the school platforms published, so the week starts with the pile-ups visible: two tests on Thursday, an essay on Friday, and a lab report nobody mentioned in class. Planning around that takes about ten minutes because the list is complete — the version in your head never is.

During the week, lessons get recorded when they move too fast to follow, and the notes that come back are organised by topic rather than dumped as transcript. Worksheets get photographed and turned into cards the same evening, while the lesson still makes sense. Ten or fifteen cards a lesson is the right size; a hundred is a deck nobody reviews.

Two evenings before a test, the practice test gets sat closed-book and timed, which is uncomfortable and is the only honest measurement available. Whatever it exposes gets the remaining time, and the topics that came out fine get none. The evening before is for repeating the questions that went wrong, and then stopping — new material learned that late tends to displace what was already solid.

None of that is specific to this app. It is the sequence that works, and the app exists to remove the parts of it that are typing rather than thinking. Everything in it can be done with paper, a phone timer and a calendar; it just takes longer.

Questions people ask before signing up

Does it work if my school does not use Canvas or Schoology?

Yes. Any calendar feed works, including one a teacher shares, and work can be added by hand in a few seconds. The sync is a convenience, not a requirement.

What happens to my notes and grades?

They stay on your device. Grades never leave it, school logins are not stored on a server, and nothing you put into the app is used to target advertising. The privacy policy spells out each case, including what does leave when you use an AI feature and why.

Is the free plan a trial?

No — it is a plan. Every study mode is included, with monthly limits on AI generation and lecture recording, and ads. The paid plans raise the limits and remove most or all of the ads. Nothing about the studying itself is behind a paywall.

Who makes it?

One high-school student. The about page covers why it exists, how the writing here is produced, and how the app is paid for.

Plans

Every study mode is available on every plan, including Free — nothing about the actual studying is locked. What changes is how much AI generation and recording you get, and how many ads you see. Pro is $6.99 a month and Exclusive is $14.99, both with a 7-day free trial and both cheaper annually. Details on the pricing page.

Your schoolwork is stored on your own device. Your grades never leave it, even with an account, and ads are never targeted using anything you put into the app. The privacy policy sets out exactly what is stored and what leaves.

The Planr Handbook — every feature, the study methods in full, and workflows for tests, finals and falling behind
Study guides — practical writing on studying, note-taking and getting through a school week
About Planr.ai — who builds it, how the writing is produced, and how it is funded
Pricing — what each plan includes and what it costs
Support — common problems and how to reach us