How Due Next works

Getting started

1. Open the link in Safari or Chrome. If you tapped it inside Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok or Messenger, tap ⋯ or the share icon and choose Open in browser. Google sign-in doesn't work inside those apps.
2. Sign in with Google. Use the same account on your phone and laptop, and your classes show up on both.
3. Add your classes. Upload a syllabus and the AI pulls out exams, quizzes, due dates, grade weights, class times, holidays and attendance rules. Or connect Canvas to bring in your assignments, or add a class by hand.
4. Check the review screen. Nothing is saved until you look it over and tap Add to my classes.
5. Get the iPhone app. Due Next is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Same account, everything stays in sync.
6. Put it on your home screen. Mac: Safari → File → Add to Dock. Android: Chrome → ⋮ → Add to Home screen.

How it works

Dashboard

Each class card shows the one thing due next, plus how many more are due this week. Overdue work shows in red at the top. Items you should start early get a Start now tag.

Today

The top of the dashboard shows what's due today. With Pro, it also shows today's classes with one-tap check-in, and a reminder if you forgot to check in for a past class. Check-in choices are Went, Late, Missed, Excused and No class. Tap the same button again to clear it.

Calendar (Pro)

Open Calendar in the menu to see every due date in your class colors, with exams highlighted. Circles mark your classes: filled if you went, red if you missed, hollow if you haven't checked in yet. Tap a day to see everything on it.

Attendance (Pro)

Each class has an Attendance tab with your attendance %, your class times (or tap Use UMass Fall 2026 calendar to skip holidays and breaks), and Mark all as went for classes before you started checking in. When you mark a class Missed, a to-do to get the notes is added, due before your next class. Change the check-in and the to-do goes away. Attendance also counts toward your projected grade and you get warnings like "1 free absence left."

Invite friends

Open Invite friends in the menu to get your personal link and share it. Everyone who joins by December 31, 2026 gets Pro free until July 1, 2027. Invite rewards are paused for now; we still save who joined through your link. Details.

Office hours log (Pro)

Log each visit in a class's Notes tab: the date, who you saw and what you talked about. Visits also show on your calendar.

Each class

• To do: your checklist. Check something off and it moves to that class's Completed folder. Things you finished today stay visible until midnight.
• Readings: assigned pages with a time estimate.
• Grades: enter scores to see your current grade and what you need on the rest to get each letter.
• Attendance: check-ins, attendance %, class times and attendance rules.
• Notes: notes for the class, your office hours log, and notes for each assignment.
• Settings: name, color, grade weights, archive or delete the class.

Canvas

Connect once on a computer, and your assignments show up on all your devices:

1. In Due Next, tap From Canvas (or Connect Canvas on the Classes page).
2. In Canvas, open Calendar. Click Calendar Feed, at the bottom of the list on the right side of the page.
3. Copy the whole link from the box that opens and paste it into Due Next.
4. Choose where each course goes: one of your classes, a new class, or skip it.

New assignments and date changes come in when you open Due Next. If Canvas and your syllabus disagree on a date, you'll see Check date so you can pick the right one. Canvas doesn't share grades or what you've turned in, so you still check things off here.

A course is missing? Canvas only shares a course once it has something dated on the calendar. Add that class from the syllabus for now. Once it has dates, it will show up on the Canvas screen.

Syllabus changed? (Pro)

Open the class and tap Update from new syllabus. You get a checklist of what's new, what moved and what's gone, and you pick which changes to keep. Your checkmarks, scores and notes stay. Pro gets 2 updates per class each semester, and they don't use up your 8 syllabus reads.

Deleting a class

Class → Settings → Delete class. It asks twice, and the second time you type the class name, so nothing gets deleted by accident. Archive hides a class without deleting it.

Focus timer

A 45-minute focus clock with a 5-minute break, optionally tied to an assignment. Every day you finish a focus session or check something off turns green on your consistency grid.

Text size

Open the menu and tap Text size to pick Small, Normal, Large or Extra large. It's saved on that device, so your phone and laptop can use different sizes.

Plans and limits

Founding members

Everyone who makes a Due Next account by December 31, 2026 is a founding member and gets everything in Pro free until July 1, 2027, the end of the school year. No card, nothing to cancel. After that you move to the Free plan and keep all your classes, assignments, grades and notes. You can choose to get Pro then. Accounts made from January 1, 2027 start on the Free plan.

Clubs and seats

A club plan is paid by the club, once per semester, and doesn't give members Pro. Each member uses one of the club's seats, except:

• Members who pay for their own Pro get a free seat in every club they join, for as long as they stay in that club.
• Founding members get a free seat until July 1, 2027. After that they use a normal seat. Nobody is removed from a club; if a club then has more members than its plan, the leader picks a bigger plan at the next payment.

Club leaders see how many free seats their club has in the club's Finances tab.

A syllabus read is one successful AI read that reaches the review screen. Failed reads don't count. Adding assignments by hand is always unlimited. Reads reset each semester (spring, summer, fall).

Semester plan: renews right before each semester starts (around Jan 10 and Aug 25), never in the middle of a semester or in summer. Join in the last 6 weeks of a semester and the next one is included. We email you 7 days before each renewal. Website payments are handled by Stripe.

Cancel any time on the Plans page (Manage subscription) and keep Pro until the end of what you paid for. Refunds: full refund within 7 days of a charge, as long as you haven't used a Pro-only syllabus read (your 4th or later that semester, or a class update from a new syllabus). See the Terms.

Rules

• Always double-check dates. The AI reads syllabi well but can make mistakes, and professors change dates. Your syllabus, Canvas and your professor are the official source. Due Next is a helper, and meeting deadlines is still up to you.
• One account per person. Don't share your sign-in. Each friend gets their own free account.
• Only upload course materials. Syllabi and schedules are fine. Don't upload other people's private information.
• No abuse. Don't try to get around the read limits or overload the service. Accounts that do may be limited or closed.
• It's still early. Due Next is new and being improved every week. Features and prices may change, and you'll be told before anything you pay for changes.

Your data

• Only you can see your classes. Your data is locked to your Google account, and other users can't read it.
• Syllabus reading: when you tap Read syllabus, the text (or page photos) is sent to Google's Gemini AI through Google Cloud to be read. Under Google Cloud's terms it isn't used to train their AI.
• No selling, no ads. Your data isn't sold or used for advertising.
• You're in control. Delete any assignment or class at any time, and it's removed from all your devices.

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