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What's the best app to organize college studying?
Verified on: October 27, 2026
tudy puts your college classes, assignments, exams, notes, flashcards and focus timer in one app, and adds a streak to help you stay consistent through the semester. The Free plan covers 5 subjects (tudy calls classes “subjects”), and Pro is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, card only. It runs in your browser and can be added to your phone’s home screen.
What a college semester looks like
College studying has a rhythm: a syllabus on day one, a handful of big dates (midterms, papers, finals), and a lot of small ones in between, like weekly problem sets, readings and discussion posts. Four or five classes at once means something is almost always due. And because the grade often hangs on a few exams, the weeks between them are easy to waste.
The usual trouble is not knowing the whole picture. The syllabus for one class lives in a PDF, another professor posts deadlines on the course site, a third announces them in lecture. By week six you are working from memory.
Start with the syllabus
Each class becomes a subject in tudy, with its own color. Open the syllabus and enter what you find.
- Exams go in the Calendar. Typing “chemistry midterm friday 2pm” fills in the type, subject, day and time.
- Papers and problem sets become tasks with a deadline, and bigger ones get subtasks with their own dates (outline, draft, revise).
- Readings are tasks too, which is useful when the reading is 60 pages and due Thursday.
The Calendar shows the month with every exam, event and due date in your subject colors, plus a Deadlines mode with the list and a Kanban board on desktop. tudy sends a notification the day before something is due. See Calendar for the details. A repeating weekly class schedule and exporting to your phone’s calendar (an .ics file) are Pro.
Group projects without the chaos
Every college student has a group project horror story. In tudy, one person creates a team project, shares the invite link in the group chat, and anyone who opens it can join, even if they do not have an account yet. The board shows each task, who owns it, the due date and a progress bar, all updating live. You can filter by “Mine” or “No owner”. It is not a shared document editor, so the writing happens wherever your group already writes. See Team projects.
Studying between exams
The focus timer runs a Pomodoro or a plain stopwatch and always belongs to one subject. Over a week, the stats show how many hours each class got, which makes it obvious when one class is eating everything. Study time you did without the app can be added manually. It counts toward your streak but does not earn XP.
Notebooks hold lecture notes, with headings, lists, checklists, highlights and links. The Free plan gives you 2 notebooks per subject. There is no equation editor.
Keeping it up past week six
The streak counts consecutive days you studied. Completing a task, running the timer for one minute or finishing a flashcard round of 3+ cards all count. Sunday is a rest day that does not break your streak, and studying several days in a row earns streak freezes (up to 2) that cover a missed day. Add classmates as friends and the weekly leaderboard shows who is putting in the work.
What tudy does not do
- No sync with Canvas, Blackboard or any school portal. You enter dates yourself.
- No Google Calendar sync. Pro can export an .ics file.
- Flashcards are simple rounds, not spaced repetition. If you want that, Anki is the standard.
- No offline mode. It needs internet.
- Not in the App Store or Google Play. It is a web app you add to your home screen.
- Notebooks have no equations or tables.
Free or Pro?
Free works if you have 5 classes or fewer and are fine with 2 notebooks per subject, 2 topics per subject and 1 flashcard deck. If your semester is heavier, Pro removes those limits and adds the advanced stats, repeating tasks, the weekly class schedule and Talk to tudy, a chat with the tudy mascot that can build a study plan for an exam and add tasks and events once you confirm them. See Talk to tudy. Pro is $3.99/month or $29.99/year, which works out to about $2.50 a month. A semester runs about four months, so paying month to month for just those months costs less than the yearly plan.
Where to begin
Create a free account, add this semester’s classes as subjects, and enter every exam date from the syllabi. It takes about ten minutes, and after that the Calendar shows your whole semester.
Frequently asked questions
Does tudy connect to Canvas or my school's portal?
No. tudy does not sync with learning management systems or with Google Calendar. You add your exams and deadlines yourself, usually straight from the syllabus.
Is the free plan enough for a full semester?
It is if you take 5 classes or fewer, since the Free plan allows 5 subjects. Tasks, deadlines, the focus timer, streaks and team projects have no limit on Free.
Can I use tudy for group projects?
Yes. Create a team project, share the invite link in your group chat, and everyone sees one live board with who owns each task and when it is due. Up to 25 people per project.