Every assignment, essay, problem set and reading in one list, attached to the class it belongs to, with a reminder before it’s due. Free on the web, iOS and Android, for school, sixth form and university.
Quick answer
– Every assignment, essay and exam in one place, attached to the class it belongs to.
– Reminders before things are due, across web, iOS and Android, offline, free.
– Handles rotating timetables — week A/B and day cycles — which most to-do apps can’t.
What it does
Tracks assignments by class. Each task belongs to a subject, so you can see everything outstanding for chemistry without reading past everything else.
Shows what’s due, not just what exists. Today, this week, and overdue — sorted so the next thing to do is at the top.
Handles the different kinds of work. Homework, essays, reading, revision, group projects. Add a due date, a duration and a detail, and tick it off when it’s done.
Reminds you before the deadline, not after. Notifications arrive with time left to act, across every device you’re signed in on.
Keeps exams separate. An exam isn’t homework. It gets a date, a time, a room and its own countdown.
Works with a rotating timetable. Week A and week B, day cycles, alternating labs. Your Thursday isn’t the same every week, and the planner shouldn’t assume it is.
Why a tracker beats a to-do list
A list tells you what exists. A tracker tells you what’s due, in which class, and what’s coming. Cornell’s Learning Strategies Center makes the case for scheduling the work in advance, and the evidence on spacing is why breaking something into stages beats one long session the night before.
A missed assignment costs a grade far more than a weak one — and missed assignments are almost always a memory failure.
Most missed homework was forgotten rather than refused, which is why capture in the room matters more than any feature. Parents can see the same week through Family Connect, and our guide to helping a teenager get organised covers the habits around it.
A general to-do app doesn’t know what a class is. It can’t tell you that two things are due in the same lesson, it doesn’t understand a timetable that rotates, and it treats an exam in three weeks as a checkbox.
Keeping schoolwork in one place also solves the most expensive problem in student marking: the zero. A missed assignment costs a grade far more than a weak one, and missed assignments are almost always a memory failure rather than a knowledge failure.
| Assignment tracker | Notes app or paper list | |
|---|---|---|
| Work attached to a class | Yes | No |
| Timetable-aware | Yes, including rotations | No |
| Reminders before due dates | Yes | Manual |
| Exams with times and rooms | Yes | No |
| Across your phone and laptop | Synced | Wherever you left it |
How students use it
Set it up once at the start of term. Classes first, then every deadline from your syllabus or course outline. Our guide to turning a syllabus into a semester plan covers doing that in about half an hour per class.
Add work as it’s set, in the lesson, before you’ve left the room.
Break big assignments into stages. A research paper is not one task. Pick a topic, find sources, outline, draft, edit — each with its own date.
Check it twice a day. Morning for what’s due, evening for what’s coming.
Review on a Sunday. Ten minutes on the week ahead is what keeps the whole system honest.
Free, on everything
MyStudyLife runs on the web, iOS and Android, works offline, syncs when you’re back online, and costs nothing. It’s used by students in 197 countries, in schools with rotating timetables and universities with semester systems.
Open the web app or take the app tour to see how classes, tasks and exams fit together. Parents can see how it works on the family page.
Built for real timetables
School timetables are rarely a neat five-day repeat. A week A and week B cycle, a six-day rotation that ignores public holidays, a lab that runs on alternate Thursdays, sixth-form free periods — these are ordinary, and they break most general-purpose apps immediately.
MyStudyLife handles rotating schedules as a first-class idea rather than a workaround, which means your Thursday shows the classes that actually run this Thursday, and a task due “next lesson” knows when that lesson is.
For parents
If you’re setting this up with your child rather than for yourself, the useful part is visibility without surveillance: they own the planner, and the structure does the nagging instead of you. The family page covers how families use it, including for students who need more structure than a school diary provides.
From set to submitted
The tracker exists to close one gap: the distance between a teacher saying “this is due Friday” and the thing being handed in on Friday. Four habits do most of the work.
Add it in the room. Before you pack your bag, while the detail is still on the board. Thirty seconds, and it removes the entire category of work you forgot existed.
Give it a duration, not just a date. “Essay, due Thursday, three hours” is a task you can schedule. “Essay, Thursday” is a task you’ll start on Wednesday night.
Split anything big. Five stages with their own dates beat one deadline that arrives all at once.
Clear the overdue list daily. Either do it, reschedule it, or delete it. A list with fourteen red items stops being read, and once you stop reading it the planner is decoration.
What students use it for most
Homework and problem sets, essay deadlines with staged drafts, revision blocks in the weeks before exams, reading for seminars, group project milestones, and coursework deadlines that sit months out and are otherwise easy to forget until they’re close.
Setting up in ten minutes
Add your classes. Subject, teacher, room, and the days they run — including a rotation if your school uses one.
Add the term dates. Start and end, plus holidays, so the timetable knows which weeks are school weeks.
Add what you already know. Every deadline on a course outline or syllabus, and every exam date that’s been announced.
Turn on reminders. Pick a lead time long enough that you can actually do something: the evening before, not ten minutes prior.
Then use it twice a day. Morning for what’s due, evening for what was set. That’s the whole routine.
Works on whatever you have
The web app runs in any browser, including a school laptop you can’t install software on. The iOS and Android apps work offline and sync when you reconnect, so a train with no signal isn’t a problem.
Everything syncs against one account, so a task added on a phone in a corridor is there on a laptop that evening.
In short
Set it up once at the start of term, add work in the room where it’s set, and look at it twice a day. Everything else in a student’s week hangs off knowing what’s due.
FAQ
Is the assignment tracker free?
Yes. All planner features are free on web, iOS and Android.
Can I use it for university as well as school?
Yes. It handles semesters, terms and trimesters, and university timetables including labs and seminars.
Does it work with a rotating timetable?
Yes — week A/B, day cycles and alternating weeks are supported.
Will it remind me before something is due?
Yes, with reminders on your devices ahead of the deadline. You choose the lead time.
Does it work offline?
Yes, and it syncs when you reconnect.
Can I track exams as well as homework?
Yes. Exams are separate from tasks, with a date, time, room and countdown.
