The Best ADHD Planner Apps for Students (2026)

What it is: a course registration tool that also syncs your assignments.

Best for: college students picking classes, especially if you are waiting on a full section to open.

Price: free.

School calendar sync: yes, with the broadest coverage on this list. Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle, Sakai and Google Classroom.

Platforms: iOS, Android, web.

Where it wins: nothing else notifies you when a seat opens in a class you need. That feature alone is why most students have it installed.

Where it falls short: it is a registration tool first. If your problem is deadlines rather than enrollment, the planning side is thinner than what the dedicated planners give you. Most people end up pairing it with something else.

What it is: a college planner that fills itself in from your LMS and your syllabus.

Best for: college students who want automatic and free, who are not on Android.

Price: free for students.

School calendar sync: Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle, read-only. It also reads an uploaded syllabus with AI and pulls out assignments, exam dates, the grading breakdown and the late policy, which is genuinely useful because that detail usually never makes it into the calendar feed.

Platforms: web, iPhone, iPad, Mac.

Where it wins: the syllabus reading. Your Canvas feed knows the due date but not that the final is worth forty percent. DormWay pulls that in.

Where it falls short: no Android app at all, which rules it out for a lot of students. No course registration. Their LMS list is narrower than Shovel's or Coursicle's.

What it is: a study planner built around hours rather than dates.

Best for: the student who knows exactly what is due and still runs out of time.

Price: about $9.79 a month or $39 a year, after a seven-day trial. There is no free tier once the trial ends, so treat it as a paid app.

School calendar sync: yes, covering more systems than DormWay, including Brightspace and Google Classroom.

Platforms: iOS, Android, web.

Where it wins: the feature they call the Cushion. It estimates how long your work will take, compares it against the hours you actually have, then tells you when you are overcommitted. Nothing else here does this properly. If that is your specific problem, Shovel is worth the money.

Where it falls short: you have to pay, which for a lot of students is the end of the conversation. It also asks you to estimate task durations. Time estimation is famously not an ADHD strength, so there is some setup friction.

What it is: a planner built so that missing a day does not cost you anything.

Best for: students who have quit several planners already, high school through college, plus adults.

Price: free right now. We will add paid plans later. The first hundred founding members will lock in a lifetime rate.

School calendar sync: yes. This is where it is broad: Zella takes any standard iCal link, so Canvas and Blackboard both work, as do Moodle, Brightspace, D2L, Sakai, a university's own calendar export or a departmental schedule. If it produces an .ics link, it comes in. Most apps here support a fixed list of named systems, so this is wider than it looks. You can connect more than one, which matters if you are dual-enrolled at a high school and a college at the same time. That case is why we built it.

Platforms: it is a web app you install to your home screen. It behaves like an app once installed, but it is not in the App Store or Google Play.

What it is: the long-standing free student planner, built around the academic calendar.

Best for: students with rotating or non-standard timetables, which most general planners handle badly.

Price: free. MSL+ is $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year in the US and adds subtasks, calendar sync and better grade tracking.

School calendar sync: no on the free plan, where you enter everything yourself. MSL+ adds calendar sync, so you can pull in your Google, Apple or school calendar.

Platforms: iOS, Android, web.

Where it wins: rotating timetables, which sounds niche until you go to a school that has them. It also works offline, which almost nothing else here does.

Where it falls short: the data entry on the free plan. MSL+ can pull in your calendars, but your classes, assignments and exams are still yours to type in. If that data entry is the thing that kills planners for you, this will not survive week three either. That is not a criticism of the app, it is a criticism of the fit.

What it is: the simplest deadline list on this list, around since 2009.

Best for: someone who wants a homework list and nothing else at all.

Price: free with ads. Premium is $4.99 a year, which removes ads and unlocks calendar feed auto-refresh.

School calendar sync: partial. The calendar feed refresh is behind premium. It does not do Canvas or Blackboard auto-sync the way the group-one apps do.

Platforms: iOS, Android, web.

Where it wins: it is simple and it has been reliable for over fifteen years. Cheap, familiar, unfussy.

Where it falls short: no GPA calculation, no real LMS sync, plus an interface that shows its age.

What it is: a student planner with genuinely good grade and GPA projection.

Best for: anyone whose actual anxiety is about grades rather than deadlines.

Price: $4.99 as a one-time purchase, which makes it the best value on this list if grades are your worry.

School calendar sync: no.

Platforms: iOS, Android, Windows, web. The Windows support is unusual and useful if you are on a school laptop.

Where it wins: "what do I need on the final to keep a B" is a question it answers directly. That is a real source of student dread.

Where it falls short: manual entry again, plus an interface that is functional rather than pleasant.

What it is: a visual planner built specifically for neurodivergent brains.

Best for: time blindness. If you genuinely cannot feel time passing, this is the category leader.

Price: $7.99 a month or $79.99 a year. There is a family plan at $119.99 a year for up to five people, which is rare and worth knowing about if you have more than one neurodivergent person in the house. The free tier is mobile only, so the web planner and the AI features need Pro.

School calendar sync: no.

Platforms: iOS and Android, with web on Pro.

Where it wins: the visual timeline and the circular timer. Your day is icons and colours rather than a wall of text, so you can see time actually moving. It won Apple's iPhone App of the Year in December 2025, which is not nothing.

Where it falls short: it is the most expensive option here for a student. It does not know your school exists. You will still be entering assignments by hand.

What it is: a visual day planner that is not ADHD-specific but that the ADHD community adopted anyway.

Best for: wanting most of what Tiimo does for a lot less money.

Price: there is a real free tier. Pro is $6.99 a month or $29.99 a year in the US, though Structured now prices by region, so what you see may differ from this. There is also a lifetime purchase, which is $99.99 in the US. The trial is three days and converts automatically, so cancel a day early if you are testing it.

School calendar sync: no. It syncs with Apple Calendar, Google Calendar and Outlook, which means you could point it at a school calendar feed indirectly.

Platforms: iOS, Android, web.

Where it wins: the timeline is genuinely good and the annual price is reasonable. The lifetime option existing at all is unusual now.

Where it falls short: users report sync problems between devices reasonably often. The free tier is thin enough that you cannot really evaluate the app without paying.

What it is: a timeboxing app that puts one task in front of you with a timer running.

Best for: task paralysis. The moment where you know what to do and cannot begin.

Price: $6 a month or $39 a year, after a seven-day trial. No free tier afterwards.

School calendar sync: no. Google Calendar sync and a Todoist integration, that is it.

Platforms: web first, with iOS and Android apps now available.

Where it wins: it is the best thing here for actually starting. One task, a countdown, nothing else visible. It is also made by a very small team who respond to their users, which shows.

Where it falls short: it is not a planner in the school sense at all. It will not track your semester. It is a doing tool, not a knowing-what-is-due tool.