Altitask vs Helium

Altitask is a student planning workspace that turns course materials, lectures, and meetings into transcripts, summaries, tasks, projects, study plans, and calendar events. Students can import university calendars through ICS, schedule recurring classes, and create dated assignment tasks by uploading or pasting a.txt or.docx syllabus. Recorded lectures in.mp3,.wav,.m4a, or.mp4 format, up to 200 MB, become transcripts and summaries. The workspace includes tasks, projects, a calendar, TipTap rich-text notes, public-submission forms, and a kanban board. Its free plan includes 3 Altitasks, 25 tasks, 5 projects, 5 notes, and 5 forms, with unlimited calendar events. Pro costs $6.99 a month; Plus costs $9.99 a month and includes more monthly AI compute. An extra owned workspace costs $3.99 a month. Altitask says its self-hosted dww-farmer-v1 model handles summaries, task generation, and its 37-tool assistant, while transcription uses faster-whisper on its server. It says audio and notes stay on its own stack rather than being sent to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq.

Helium is a free planner for organizing classes, homework, grades, notes, and academic workload. Its grade tools calculate results in real time, let students test hypothetical scores, and estimate what is needed on a final to reach a target grade. Scheduling offers Month, Week, 3-Day, Day, and Agenda views with color coding, filters, search, and drag-and-drop. Push notifications on iOS, Android, and web, or email reminders, can cover assignments, classes, exams, and events. Helium supports two-way syncing with Google, Apple, other calendars, and iCal sources. Notes can include headings, lists, quotes, links, and search, and can connect to classes or assignments. The open-source service provides a public REST API for actions available in its apps, though it does not maintain official tooling or pre-built integrations. Users can access, export, or delete their data, and full schedules can be exported as JSON. Data is stored and processed on servers in the United States. Helium says it suits middle school, high school, college, university, graduate school, and homeschool students.