Fasti vs Helium

Fasti is an AI student planner for organizing classes, shifts, study time, deadlines, commutes, shared plans, and money. It can convert screenshots, photos, PDFs, and pasted text into editable calendar events for courses, assignments, exams, and shifts. Its Planner takes natural-language requests and proposes calendar changes that users can review, approve, reject, or undo. Money tools connect shifts, pay cycles, income, expenses, and goals to forecast take-home pay and upcoming costs. Users can share selected events, courses, categories, import groups, or date ranges; proposed edits require acceptance. The browser app works without an account or download, while signing in enables cloud sync. Optional two-way calendar sync reads or writes synced events on the device. Schedules stay on-device by default, but imported images and text are processed through the maker’s server and Google Cloud Vertex AI before files are discarded. The free plan allows up to 30 events and recurring blocks; Plus costs C$6.99 a month and Pro costs C$13.99 a month.

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.