Altitask vs Simplyr

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.

Simplyr is a college planner and student workspace for managing courses, assignments, exams, grades, notes, files, and study schedules. Its planner offers day, week, and month views alongside tasks, events, reminders, habits, course schedules, and attendance check-ins. Study features include Pomodoro and break timers, flashcards, exam preparation, confidence ratings, review notes, and progress tracking. Students can record course grades, semester and overall GPA, missing assignments, and attendance, and model what-if grades. The workspace includes course-linked notebooks, journals, documents, whiteboards, sticky notes, image support, PDF export, and uploaded course PDFs. Canvas imports available course and assignment data when school permissions allow; calendars can be imported and exported through iCal. Simplyr runs on web, iOS, and Android, and offers a free plan. Paid options start at $9.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Simplyr complements school systems rather than replacing them; Canvas remains the official place for submissions, announcements, communication, and academic records.