Study Timetable Generator
Set the days and hours you actually need, then drag to create, move and resize study blocks on the grid — download as an image when you're done. Pro Mode adds Smart Auto-Fill scheduling and weekly hour analytics.
Spreading a subject across three shorter sessions during the week tends to work better than one long cram block — it matches how spaced repetition improves retention. Leave real breaks between blocks; back-to-back sessions with no gap are the most common reason a timetable gets abandoned by day three.
Add your subjects and weekly hour targets — the schedule fills itself in automatically, spread across your available days.
How to Use the Study Timetable Generator
From a blank week to a finished, downloadable schedule — no signup, nothing ever leaves your browser.
Everything above runs entirely in your browser. Your timetable is never uploaded to a server, so it stays completely private from start to finish.
Study Timetable Generator — Free Drag & Drop Weekly Planner
A study timetable generator turns a blank week into a visual, block-by-block schedule you can build by dragging directly on a grid. This one runs entirely in your browser — drag to create a block, drag its edges to resize it, drag the block itself to move it — then download the finished timetable as a PNG or PDF, with nothing ever uploaded to a server.
Most searches for a timetable generator online free or a school timetable generator come down to one of two needs: either a quick visual way to lay out a week by hand, or something that can build the schedule automatically once the subjects and hours are known. This tool covers both. The free drag-and-drop grid handles manual planning end to end, and Pro Mode's Smart Auto-Fill — a genuinely automatic timetable generator — takes a list of subjects with weekly hour targets and available days, then builds the whole week for you, spacing sessions out with breaks between them. Neither approach requires installing anything or creating an account, and the finished result can be downloaded as an image, a PDF, or a calendar file in seconds.
1Simple vs Pro — What Each Mode Includes
| Feature | Simple Mode | Pro Mode (Free) |
|---|---|---|
| Drag-and-drop grid — create, move, resize blocks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom block colours & titles | ✓ | ✓ |
| Download as PNG | ✓ | ✓ |
| Smart Auto-Fill (automatic scheduling) | — | ✓ |
| Weekly & school-day templates | — | ✓ |
| Calendar export (.ics for Google/Apple Calendar) | — | ✓ |
| Download as PDF | — | ✓ |
| Save/load schedule as JSON | — | ✓ |
| Weekly hours-by-subject analytics | — | ✓ |
2Common Reasons People Build a Study Timetable
A student juggling five or six subjects rarely needs a generic weekly grid — they need to see, at a glance, whether Biology is actually getting enough hours relative to Maths before an exam. That's the specific gap the weekly hours-by-subject analytics in Pro Mode closes: it turns the visual schedule into a number per subject, so an imbalance is obvious before it becomes a problem the week before an exam. The same underlying data also makes it easy to catch a subject that's been quietly dropped from the schedule after a few busy days, something that's much harder to notice just by scanning a grid of colored blocks.
3Manual vs Automatic Timetable Building
| Approach | Best For | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| Manual drag-and-drop | Full control over exact placement, fitting around fixed commitments | Takes longer for a busy, multi-subject week |
| Templates (Pro) | A fast starting point close to a standard school or study week | Still needs manual adjustment for personal commitments |
| Smart Auto-Fill (Pro) | Building a full week from scratch in seconds | Best followed by a manual pass to fine-tune specific days |
The entire timetable — every block, subject, and time slot — is created, edited, and exported using only client-side JavaScript in your browser. Nothing about your schedule is sent to a server, including when using Auto-Fill or exporting to PDF, PNG, JSON, or .ics.
4Building a Timetable You'll Actually Follow
The most common failure mode for a study timetable isn't a bad design — it's an unrealistic one. A schedule that assumes eight focused hours a day, seven days a week, rarely survives contact with an actual week that also includes classes, meals, commuting, and simply being tired. Templates in Pro Mode start from a school-week or weekend-heavy structure specifically to avoid this trap, and the drag-and-drop grid makes it easy to see, visually, when a day has been packed too tightly — a wall of back-to-back colored blocks with no white space is usually a sign to remove one before the week even starts, rather than after it's already been abandoned.
5Frequently Asked Questions
Built on open standards — the calendar export uses the standard iCalendar (.ics) format supported by every major calendar app, and PDF export runs on the open-source pdf-lib library.
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