Stride
Study planner that adapts when life gets in the way.
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Stride - Study planner that adapts when life gets in the way.

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Most students underestimate how long studying actually takes β€” and panic when exams get close. Stride fixes that. Add your exams, upload your materials, and Stride builds a realistic daily study plan automatically. It measures your reading pace, breaks material into daily chunks, and recalculates your plan when life gets in the way. Features: Smart Timer, Focus Mode, Low Energy Day, revision days, progress tracking, and AI summaries for PDFs up to 300 pages. Free plan available.

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Hi Product Hunt! πŸ‘‹ I built Stride because I was that student β€” the one with a colour-coded study plan that became useless by day 3. The problem was always the same: I'd underestimate how long studying actually takes, fall behind, and then spend more energy stressing about the plan than actually following it. Every day I'd wake up knowing I was behind but not knowing by how much or how to catch up. The anxiety was worse than the actual workload. I looked for apps that could help but everything was either too simple (just a to-do list) or too rigid (perfect schedules that don't survive contact with real life). Nothing automatically recalculated when you missed a session. Nothing told you your actual reading pace. Nothing just said "here's what you need to do today." So I built Stride β€” mostly out of frustration. I spent about 3 months building it solo using Claude and VS Code, and it's been the most intense and rewarding thing I've ever done. Stride measures your reading pace, builds your daily study plan, and automatically recalculates everything when life gets in the way. Because plans that can't adapt aren't plans β€” they're just pressure. Would love to hear your feedback β€” especially from students who've tried everything and still felt behind. πŸ™

How does Stride handle it when someone falls behind for more than a couple of days, does it just cram everything in or actually shift the plan around?

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Great question! When you fall behind, Stride doesn't cram everything into the remaining days β€” that would just recreate the same panic you were trying to avoid.

Instead, when you hit Regenerate, Stride redistributes your remaining material across the days you have left, taking into account your reading pace and your daily study goal (which you set in Settings). So if you've blocked certain days, have events in your calendar, or simply don't have much time left β€” it works around all of that and gives you a realistic plan based on what's actually possible.

The honest caveat: if you're very far behind and there genuinely isn't enough time to cover everything, Stride will show you that too β€” which is uncomfortable but better than finding out the night before your exam. At that point you can prioritize your highest-weight materials and use the AI summary feature to cover the rest faster.

Hope that helps β€” happy to answer anything else! 😊