About Planr.ai
Planr.ai is a study and organisation app for secondary school and college students, and a small library of writing about how to study. This page says who makes it, how the writing is produced, and where the money comes from, because all three are fair questions to ask of any site that gives advice.
Who makes it
Planr is built by one high-school student. That is the whole team. It started because the tools a normal school week requires were scattered across five places: assignments in Schoology or Canvas, a calendar somewhere else, notes in a document, flashcards in one app, a recording of a lecture in another, and nothing that knew about anything else. Keeping all of that in sync was taking longer than the work it was supposed to organise.
The first version was a to-do list that read the school calendar feed. Everything since — study guides, flashcards, practice tests, lecture recording, grade tracking, study groups — was added because it solved a problem that came up during an actual term, usually the week before a test. That is why the feature list is shaped the way it is rather than matching any competitor's.
Being a one-person project has consequences worth stating plainly. Support replies come from a person, usually within a day or two, but not within an hour. Features arrive in an order set by what breaks, not by a roadmap. And when something goes wrong, there is nobody to hide behind, which is a reasonable trade for a product made by someone who uses it every day for the same reason everyone else does.
What the app actually does
Planr connects to Schoology, Canvas, Google Classroom, Blackboard or any calendar feed and pulls your assignments, quizzes and tests onto one calendar and one to-do list. From your own material — a document, a photo of a worksheet, a set of notes — it produces study guides, flashcards and practice tests. It records lectures and turns them into organised notes. It tracks grades so you can see what a test is actually worth.
The detail of every feature is in the handbook, which is the long reference version of this paragraph, including the parts of each feature that do not work well and what to do instead.
One design decision is worth repeating here: every AI feature has an offline fallback that runs on your own device. When there is no network, or the AI service is unreachable, the app still builds guides, cards and tests locally. They are less fluent. They are also still there at 11pm on a bad connection, which is when a study app is most likely to be needed.
How the writing is produced
The study guides and the handbook are written for this site by the person who builds it. There are 14 articles so far, and they are added when there is something specific to say, not on a publishing schedule.
Three rules govern them. Every piece takes a position rather than listing every option — advice that hedges everything cannot be acted on. Every piece says where the method stops working, because the most common reason study advice fails is that it was right for a different subject. And where a claim rests on research rather than experience, it is described as what the research supports, in ordinary language, without dressing up a general finding as a precise number.
The writing draws on well-established findings in learning science — testing yourself beats rereading, spacing beats massing, explaining beats highlighting — and on the unglamorous parts nobody writes about, like what to do when you are three weeks behind in four subjects. Where a specific figure appears, such as how long a method takes, it is an estimate from practice and is described as one.
Corrections are welcome and get made. If something here is wrong, email support@planronline.com and say what and why.
How it is paid for
Two ways, and both are visible to you. The free plan shows ads, which is what pays for people who never subscribe. Paid plans — Pro at $6.99 a month or $54.99 a year, Exclusive at $14.99 a month or $119.99 a year, each with a 7-day free trial — raise the AI limits and remove most or all of the advertising. Full numbers are on the pricing page.
Three commitments about the advertising, which you can check against the app. No ad ever appears in the middle of a study session — not between flashcards, not during a practice test, not while a lecture is recording. No tier shows video ads that interrupt. And the ads are contextual placements on the page rather than anything built from your schoolwork, because your schoolwork is not readable by us in the first place.
The site does not take payment for reviews, rankings or recommendations, and nothing in the articles is a paid placement. Where an article mentions what Planr does, it is labelled as what the app does and usually notes the part the app cannot do for you.
What we can and cannot see
Grades and school logins stay on your device. Sync codes are never stored in raw form. The consequence is that support genuinely cannot look up your account to diagnose a problem — there is no account to look up — which is occasionally inconvenient and is the honest price of the privacy model. The full detail is in the privacy policy, which is written to be read rather than to be survived.
Contact
Support, bug reports, corrections and anything else: support@planronline.com. Privacy requests, including deletion: privacy@planronline.com. Common problems, with fixes, are collected on the support page.
If you are a teacher and want to use Planr with a class, or a student who wants something the app does not do yet, say so in an email. Most of what is in the app now started as someone describing a specific week that had gone wrong.
Where to start reading
- The handbook — every feature, plus the study methods the app is built on.
- Active recall vs rereading — the single change that moves most grades.
- How to catch up when you are weeks behind — triage for when there is more work than time.
- All study guides — the full list.
Last updated 19 September 2026.