Is there a student discount for Renard?

No, there is no student discount, and saying otherwise would be pretending. What there is instead is a free plan that is not a trial: unlimited events, sync across devices, 50 AI conversations a month and 2 canvas spaces, with no credit card and no expiry date. Most students never need more than that.

Is Renard free for students?

The free plan is free for everyone, students included, and you can stay on it indefinitely. Paid plans lift the AI conversation cap and the canvas limit and add voice and image input in chat; they do not unlock the calendar, which is complete on the free plan. Pro is $9.90 a month or $99 a year, and Max is $49.90 a month or $499 a year.

Will Renard plan my study schedule for me?

No. Renard has no auto-scheduling, no revision timetable generator and no Pomodoro timer. It will not build your week or tell you when to start an essay. If that is what you are looking for, Motion and Reclaim.ai are built for it. Renard records what you actually did and reflects it back once a week.

Can I import my university timetable?

If your timetable is in Google Calendar, yes — Renard can import a window of past events plus the coming year in one go. It is a one-off import, not a subscription, so a timetable that changes later will not update itself. There is no integration with university systems such as Canvas or Moodle.

Does Renard work on iPhone?

It runs in the browser and can be added to your home screen, but there is no native iOS app yet. There is a native Android app. If you want a polished phone app on iPhone above all else, that gap is worth knowing before you start.

Is Renard good for group projects?

No. Renard is deliberately a single-person tool with no shared calendars, no team availability and no assignment of work to other people. For a group project you will still want a shared document and a group chat. Renard holds your own side of it.

For students

A calendar for the whole term

Last updated 31 July 2026

You are probably the most heavily advised person in the world right now. Study methods, revision timetables, apps that count your focus minutes and apps that shame you for losing them. Renard is not another one of those. It does not care how much you get done. It cares whether the term you just had was one you would choose again.

Not another study app

Renard will not build you a revision schedule, block out your library hours or send you a streak notification at eleven at night. There are no points, no levels and no badges. Those exist to keep you inside an app, and that is not what this is for.

What it does instead is quieter. You put your life in it — lectures, seminars, shifts at work, football, the friend you keep meaning to see. Events can be started, paused and resumed, so the time it holds is time that really passed. You tell it, in your own words, what actually matters to you this year. And once a week it writes you a letter about the two together.

The gap between four hours and forty minutes

Everyone knows the feeling of blocking out an afternoon for reading and coming out the other side unsure where it went. A planned calendar cannot tell you the difference, because it only ever knew the plan. A recorded one can.

That is the single most useful thing Renard does for a student. Not judgement — numbers. If the essay you were dreading took ninety minutes and the one you thought was fine took eleven hours, that is worth knowing before the next deadline, and no amount of self-assessment will produce it as reliably as just having started a timer.

A term is the unit, not a day

University time is strange. Nothing happens for six weeks and then everything happens in nine days. Judged one day at a time you will always feel either lazy or behind, and neither reading is much use.

The weekly letter takes a longer view, and because Renard keeps what it knows about you between conversations, that view accumulates across a term rather than resetting every Monday.

"Three weeks in a row now, the dissertation has had less time than your shifts at the café. You said in September the dissertation was the thing you wanted to be proud of. Money is money — but it might be worth deciding that on purpose rather than by accident." An example of a Renard weekly letter

Notice that it does not tell you to quit the job. It cannot know whether you need the money. It just refuses to let the drift stay invisible.

The parts of the term that are not coursework

The thing nobody tells you about a degree is that the coursework is the part you are least likely to regret getting wrong. It is the other stuff — the society you joined in freshers' week and never went back to, the people you meant to stay close to, sleep — that quietly decides what the year felt like.

Those things are not tasks and they do not belong on a to-do list, which is exactly why most tools cannot hold them. In Renard they are values you write in your own language, and they carry the same weight in the weekly letter as anything academic.

There is also a freeform canvas rather than only a grid, so a dissertation, a job hunt and a year abroad can each have their own space and sit in whatever shape they actually have. Paste a link to a reading and you get a summary of it; keep memos and search across everything later. The free plan includes two canvas spaces, which is enough for the two things you care most about.

What it will not do

Said plainly so you can rule it out quickly if it is wrong for you:

No student discount. There is no discounted tier and no lifetime deal. The free plan is the answer to the price question, and it is a real plan rather than a countdown.
No auto-scheduling. It will not plan your revision or protect your focus time.
No timetable sync. You can import from Google Calendar once. It does not subscribe to a feed, and there is no Canvas, Moodle or student-portal integration.
No native iPhone app. It runs in the browser and installs to your home screen; the native app is Android only so far.
Not for group projects. No shared calendars, no assigning anything to anyone.

Two things that do help, and are easy to miss: the interface is in English and Chinese, and timing an event works offline, which matters in the parts of the library where nothing else does.

Common questions

Is there a student discount?: No. The free plan is what there is instead — no card, no expiry, and the calendar is complete on it. See pricing in full.
Will it nag me?: No. No streaks, no badges, no guilt notifications. It writes once a week and otherwise leaves you alone.
Can I use it just for my life and not my degree?: Yes, and plenty of people do. Nothing about it assumes an academic calendar.
What happens to my data?: It is not used to train AI models and never sold. See the privacy FAQ.

Start the term knowing where it goes. Renard is free, with no card.

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