Assistive Technology Resources

Organization

  • Tasks for Canvas (free!) - A better to-do list sidebar for Canvas, Blackboard, and D2L Brightspace.
  • Better Canvas (free!) - Get the most out of Canvas and customize it to your liking with Better Canvas, featuring the best dark mode for Canvas, a better todo list, dashboard grades, and much more!
  • Microsoft To Do (free!) - Microsoft To Do is a simple and intelligent to-do list that helps you manage all your tasks in one place. 
  • Focus To-Do (free!) - Focus To-Do is an easy-to-use time and task management application that helps you to manage tasks anywhere and anytime, and helps you to perform tasks efficiently. 
  • goblin.tools (free!) - goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.
  • MyStudyLife (free!) - Track and get reminders for your classes, homework, exams, and study schedule.
  • Asana (free for 12 months for students) -  Coordinate and track work effortlessly in Asana. From lists to boards, to calendars and gantt charts, organize work your way in Asana.
  • Todoist (free version available) - Todoist is a to do list and a planning center for individuals and teams.
  • Trevor AI (free version available) - Trevor AI is the most intuitive daily planner & task scheduling app.
  • xTiles (free version available) - Easy-to-use solution for task management & planning, collaborations, and building knowledge bases. 
  • Raindrop.io (free version available) - Raindrop.io is a modern bookmarking app. Save, resurface and manage your collection privately from any browser and any device.
  • iStudiez (free version available) - Unique built-in planner lets you input and easy manage all types of schedules including classic, alternating (A & B weeks), rotating and block schedule.
  • Structured.app (free version available) - Structured combines all your tasks and to-dos into a single visual timeline.
  • Trello (free version available) - Manage projects, organize tasks, and build team collaboration—all in one place.
  • TickTick (free version available) - Join millions of people to capture ideas, organize to-dos, and make the most of your life with TickTick.
  • Sectrograph (purchase required) - Sectograph is a visual day planner that displays your calendar events on a pie chart in the form of a 12/24 hour clock face.
  • Artful Agenda (subscription required) - Artful Agenda combines the fun and personalization of a paper planner with the convenience of a digital calendar.

Time Management and Focus

  • Forest (free!) - Forest is an app that helps you stay focused on the important things in life. Whenever you want to stay focused, plant a tree.
  • Habitica (free!) - Habitica is a free habit and productivity app that treats your real life like a game. Habitica can help you achieve your goals to become healthy and happy.
  • Study Bunny (free!) - A focus timer for motivation and productivity!
  • Flora (free!) - Flora is a new way to stay off your phone, clear to-do lists, and build positive, life-changing habits. Whenever you want to make progress toward your goals, grow trees in Flora!
  • Be Focused (free version available) - The Be Focused lets you get things done by breaking up individual tasks among discrete intervals, separated by short breaks.

Self-care

  • How We Feel (free!) - How We Feel is a free app created by scientists, designers, engineers, and therapists to help people better understand their emotions and find strategies to help them navigate their emotions in the moment.
  • youfeellikeshit.com (free!) - You Feel Like Shit is a game designed to help you help yourself through your shitty times and practice self care.
  • Finch Care (free version available) - Finch is the fun self-care tracker to hit goals and sustain healthy habits! Build mental resilience against stress, anxiety, and depression.
  • Routinery (free version available) - Routinery helps people live better lives with personalized "behavior change environments"

Meditation

  • Downdog (free with student email) - Down Dog provides a studio-like yoga experience in the comfort of your home.
  • Breathe App (free!) - Breathe is your ultimate tool for mindfulness and relaxation, offering a diverse range of breathing exercises tailored to your needs.
  • The Tapping Solution (free!) - Lower your stress levels, reduce anxiety, overcome fears, relieve pain, get better sleep, and so much more.
  • Center Meditation Timer (free!) - Discover the joy of mindfulness meditation with Center, your companion in the art of meditation.
  • Headspace (subscription discount with student email) - Headspace's mission is to provide every person access to lifelong mental health support.
  • Insight Timer (free version available) - The best meditation app with the world's largest FREE library of more than 220k guided meditations, 17k teachers & the world's most loved meditation Timer.

Background Noise

  • My Noise (free!) - Discover a world of immersive and customizable soundscapes that can enhance focus, relaxation, and sleep. 
  • Soundrown (free!) - Soundrown was created to help individuals like you, relax and focus while you work on your daily tasks or creative aspirations.
  • Coffitivity (free version available) - Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better.
  • Rainy Mood (free version available) - Rainy Mood is the internet's most popular rain experience. Join millions of people who use Rainy Mood to help them sleep, study, and relax.
  • Endel (subscription required) - Focus, relax, and sleep through the power of sound. Endel creates AI-powered sounds designed to support your everyday life.

(Updated January 2025)