Athena — your AI chief of staff
She holds your class schedule, work shifts and every deadline in one memory — then tells you what to do next and nudges you before you fall behind. By voice or text, hands-free wake word.
LiveAthena — your AI chief of staff for college
Plan every class.
Learn it faster.
Keep your work yours.
Athena turns class chaos into one clear daily plan — pulling your syllabi, Canvas and deadlines into a single place, tutoring you until it actually sticks, and keeping a clean record of the work you did. Free to start.
- Whole-degree planPrerequisite-aware, term by term
- Every deadline, zero slipsAny syllabus → dated checklist
- Tutored to masteryLearn it — don't outsource it
- Your work stays yoursA clean record, authorship kept clear
Reads the public academic maps from
- Arizona State
- UT Austin
- UCF
- Florida State
- Michigan
- FGCU
Your plan · 01
A four-year plan that checks itself.
Paste your program's academic map or upload a screenshot. We parse course codes, credits, prerequisites and co-requisites into a real plan — then catch the impossible sequences before your advisor does. Try it: move a course and watch the rules re-check.
No conflicts. Every prerequisite is satisfied and no term is overloaded.
Link or upload
HTML academic maps parse automatically. No clean link? OCR a screenshot or PDF — low-confidence fields are flagged for you to confirm, never silently guessed.
Honest about what's live
We monitor public catalog pages for changes. We never pretend to read your private registration — that lives behind your university login, and we say so.
Built for transfers
Carry credits across institutions. The plan doesn't assume a single school for your whole degree, because real students rarely do.
This isn't a mockup
The full planner, syllabus tracker, consent-gated capture and writing coach are live and free. Your data stays in your browser.
Open the workspace →Your deadlines · 02
Every syllabus becomes a checklist.
Drop in a syllabus and we lift out the assignments, readings and exams with their due dates and weights. Overdue and upcoming are impossible to confuse, and every course links back to its slot in your plan.
Extracted checklist
- Press Extract checklist to parse the syllabus into dated tasks.
Built for how college works now
AI can do the work for you. That's the problem.
The point of college isn't the assignment — it's what you walk away knowing. CoursePlanner uses AI to help you actually learn faster, and keeps your authorship clear so the credit stays yours. Here's everything it does.
Four-year planner
A degree map that respects every prerequisite and credit cap — and tells you why when something won't fit.
LiveSyllabus & Canvas
Turn any syllabus into dated tasks, or import straight from Canvas. Every deadline, one calm list — with .ics export.
LiveMoney & aid — 50 states
A live explorer of federal + every state's grants and scholarships, real deadlines, and a FAFSA paperwork assistant.
LiveTutored to mastery
A tutor that teaches instead of telling — Socratic hints, the best explainer video for what you're stuck on, plus AI flashcards, summaries, audio recaps and exam prep (SAT, ACT, CLEP, USMLE & more) with spaced recall until it sticks.
PremiumAuthorship kept clear
Use AI without crossing the line. Athena coaches your thinking instead of writing your paper, and can attach a plain-English note of how AI helped — on your terms, never a hidden score or an AI-detector.
LiveCareer
Build a résumé from your coursework and see the exact skills gap between you and the job you want.
LiveTutor marketplace
Find a tutor by state, university and subject — or list yourself and earn. Browse tutors →
LiveFamily access & ownership
Grant a parent a read-only view of exactly what you choose — revocable anytime. Your data is yours to export or delete.
LiveCollege prep (grades 9–12)
Still in high school? A free, grade-by-grade roadmap to college: deadlines, a readiness tracker, and the biggest scholarships. Start here →
LiveHonest by design
Yours by law. Honest by default.
The day you turn 18 or set foot on campus, your education rights become yours — not your parents', not your school's, and certainly not an app's. We built the whole product around that fact instead of around it.
You own your record
Under FERPA, your rights transfer to you on enrollment. So the student is the sole account holder — and you can export or delete every byte we hold, on demand.
Consent-aware by design
Lecture capture is gated by your state's recording law and your institution's policy, defaulting to the strictest. We never facilitate unlawful recording — and recordings are never shared by default.
A coach, not a ghostwriter
Our AI reviews your draft, asks hard questions and points the way — it will not write the paper for you. And we refuse to rely on AI-detectors that wrongly flag non-native writers.
Parents see only what you allow
Parent access is invited by you, scoped to exactly what you choose, and revocable in a single tap. A parent is never the owner of your data and can never authorize record access.
The arc
Start with the part that
earns trust daily.
Planning and syllabus tracking ship first — the lowest-risk, highest-value wedge. The higher-stakes features arrive only once the consent and ownership architecture is solid.
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Now · live
The whole journey, shipped
- Four-year planner, syllabus → checklist & deadlines
- Athena — AI advisor, writing coach & 24/7 tutor (voice, mobile, installable)
- Financial-aid & scholarship tracker — all 50 states + FAFSA paperwork help
- Premium study tools: AI flashcards, summaries, audio recaps & exam prep
- Career résumé & skill-gap · tutor marketplace
- Accounts + cloud sync & a student-granted parent dashboard
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Next · P2
Connect everything
- Google Calendar, Canvas & email sync
- Smart reminders (push + email)
- Performance-aware plans from your real grades
- Paid Premium via Stripe (the free tier stays free)
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Later · P3
Grow & thrive
- In-app tutor booking & payouts (Stripe Connect)
- Live internship & job matching
- Consent-gated lecture capture (Florida-first)
- Live study-group matching & “defend-your-work” mode
Pricing
Free to start. Free for high‑schoolers.
The planner, syllabus tracker and grants & scholarships explorer are free forever. Premium unlocks Athena's daily planning, the mastery tutor, reminders and the integrations that make it your whole‑life hub.
Free
$0/ forever
The core planner — yours, no card needed.
- Four-year degree planner
- Syllabus → checklist & deadlines
- Your data, export or delete anytime
Premium
$20/ month
Or $200/year — two months on us (16.7% off).
- Everything in Free
- Athena: AI advisor + writing coach
- Smart reminders + calendar & Canvas sync
- Wellness, family dashboard & voice
4‑year plan
$499/ 4 years
All of Premium, paid once for your whole degree.
- Everything in Premium
- One payment for all four years
- Less than half the monthly price — locked in, no renewals
Premium starts with a free trial. The free tier stays free — built so students can always plan without paying. · University or department? Explore a pilot →
Questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
What is CoursePlanner.ai?
An all-in-one AI college companion. It helps students plan their degree, track every syllabus and deadline, manage financial aid, study more effectively, support their mental wellness, and find tutors — in one student-owned workspace, with an AI assistant named Athena.
Is CoursePlanner free?
Yes. The degree planner, syllabus & deadline tracking, money & financial-aid tools, the learn-to-study knowledge base, the wellness hub, and the tutor marketplace are all free. A Premium tier at $20/month adds the Athena AI advisor, the writing coach, and the AI study tools.
Who owns my data?
You do. Your data is stored locally in your own browser by default and can be exported or deleted at any time. Cloud sync across devices and read-only parent access are both opt-in and revocable.
Does it work with Canvas?
Yes. You can import your courses and assignment due dates from Canvas using your own personal access token, which stays in your browser and is never stored on our servers.
What financial aid does it cover?
Federal aid (FAFSA, Pell Grant, Direct Loans, work-study) plus every U.S. state's flagship grants and scholarships — all 50 states and Washington, D.C. — with real priority deadlines and a FAFSA paperwork assistant.
How much does Premium cost?
$20 per month, or $200 per year (two months free).
Early access
Get in before the first cohort.
The planner & syllabus tracker are live and free right now — open the app. Join the list for cloud sync across devices, the mobile app, and consent-gated lecture capture as they roll out.