Frequently asked questions

Before you connect Canvas.

Short answers about setup, study plans, your calendar, and your data.

Questions and answers

The short answers.

Still wondering about something? Contact us.

What is Tardy?

A student planner for iPhone and iPad. It finds time for your Canvas assignments and puts study sessions on your calendar.

What do I need to get started?

You must be a United States resident age 18 or older, with an iPhone or iPad and TestFlight. Connect your Canvas calendar link to bring in coursework.

How do I install the beta?

Tap Download Tardy on your iPhone or iPad to open the guide right here. Install TestFlight, then return to this page and tap “Open Tardy in TestFlight.” Accept the invitation and install Tardy. If TestFlight shows “Redeem,” you don’t need a code—use that invitation button instead.

Open the two-step download guide
Does Tardy do my homework or submit assignments?

Tardy organizes your work and time. It does not submit or grade assignments. Follow your school’s academic-integrity rules when using AI assistance.

How does Tardy connect to Canvas?

In Canvas, go to Calendar → Calendar Feed, copy the link, and paste it into Tardy. It brings in assignments and due dates visible in your Canvas calendar. The upcoming release also supports school sign-in on your school’s own pages in a temporary browser. This is not official Canvas OAuth or school endorsement.

Can I plan for exams and quizzes?

Yes. Keep exams and quizzes alongside assignments, with time set aside to prepare. The syllabus scanner can pull dates from a PDF.

Which calendars does Tardy support?

Connect Apple Calendar or your main Google Calendar, or import an .ics file. Tardy can keep copies of its own events in a connected calendar.

Can Tardy change my calendar?

Tardy can create and adjust its own study sessions under your planning settings and calendar permissions. Chat’s proposed calendar changes wait for your approval.

What happens when my week changes?

When you open Tardy after a calendar change, it looks for new times for affected study sessions. If there isn’t enough room before a deadline, it tells you.

Does Tardy send reminders?

Yes. What’s due tomorrow, a heads-up before each session, and more. They’re all on your phone, and you can turn each one off.

Does Tardy work offline?

Your saved plan is available offline. AI planning, Ask Tardy, Canvas syncing, and scanners need internet.

Is Tardy on Android or the App Store?

Tardy is available for iPhone and iPad through the public TestFlight beta. It isn’t on Android or listed in the App Store yet.

How does Tardy use AI?

AI supports planning, coursework analysis, document extraction, and Ask Tardy. The revised agreement for the upcoming release requires an explicit, initially unchecked Terms/AI permission before relevant information is shared through Tardy’s backend with DeepSeek. That release has no separate AI-off mode. The disclosure explains what is shared and the limits of provider guarantees.

Read the release-pending AI disclosure
How good are the time estimates?

Estimates use the time you log to learn your pace. They can still be wrong, and you can always set your own.

What happens to my data?

Tardy processes account information and the coursework, calendars, preferences, and messages needed for its features. AI processing can include personal information sent through Tardy’s backend to its provider. The release-pending privacy policy explains these data flows, website records, retention, and deletion limits.

Read the privacy policy

Public beta · US residents 18+ · iPhone + iPad

Your week could use this.

Download Tardy

Public beta · US residents 18+

Two steps to Tardy.

For iPhone and iPad. Keep this page open.

  1. Install TestFlight.

    Get Apple’s free testing app. Then come back here for step 2.

    Get TestFlight (opens a new tab)
  2. Now, get Tardy.

    Open our invitation. In TestFlight, tap Accept, then Install.

    Open Tardy in TestFlight (opens a new tab)

Seeing “Redeem”? No code needed. Use the step 2 button above.