SchoolTracker: College Planner

Keep every college deadline, cost, note and campus tour in one private place. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your schools stay on your device.

SchoolTracker keeps a family's college applications in one place. Add the schools you are considering, then keep each one's deadlines, costs, aid, notes and campus tours together instead of in a spreadsheet and a pile of notes.

I made it for our own family's search, so it stays simple on purpose.

WHAT IT DOES

Deadlines and timeline Enter Early Decision, Early Action, Regular Decision, Financial Aid and Response dates for each school. The Deadlines tab shows them on a timeline you can view for 3, 6 or 12 months, and in a list that separates overdue, upcoming, and submitted or decided. You can add any deadline to your calendar.

Costs and aid Keep each school's cost of attendance, your aid package and your net cost side by side. Set your home state once and SchoolTracker picks in-state or out-of-state prices at public schools.

Campus tours Add tours with a date, place and check-in notes. Start from a default list of questions to ask, then record pros, cons and your impressions afterward, so the visits are easy to compare later.

Notes and organization Keep notes, application status, priority and favorites for every school. Sort and filter the list, switch between a list and a table, and add your own custom fields for anything else you want to track.

Reminders If you turn reminders on, SchoolTracker reminds you 14 days and 3 days before each deadline, the day before each tour, and 2 hours before it. They are off until you switch them on.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

Your schools, notes, costs and tours stay on your device. There is no account, no ads and no tracking, and I do not receive any of your data. School portal passwords and any keys you add are kept in the iOS Keychain.

YOU STAY IN CONTROL OF THE FACTS

SchoolTracker can fill in public facts such as a school's location, website, acceptance rate and cost of attendance from the U.S. Department of Education's College Scorecard. Scorecard facts are filled in when you ask for them, and you confirm any rename. SchoolTracker can also check a School Updates list of school facts, such as application dates. School Updates and web page suggestions show what would change and where it came from, and nothing is applied until you tap Apply. Anything you type yourself is never overwritten automatically.

OPTIONAL AI HELPERS

Update from Web Page reads a public admissions or financial aid page you point it at and suggests facts, each with its source. You review every suggestion before it is saved. On iOS 26 or later with Apple Intelligence, this runs on your device by default. You can instead add your own Anthropic key to use Claude, which may also look up other official school pages on Anthropic's side. In that case only the school name and public web page text are sent, never your notes, aid, net cost or logins. Both helpers are optional, and the rest of the app works without them.

SHARE A SCHOOL

Share Public Info sends a school's public details. Share Everything (Includes Private) also includes your notes, status, aid and tours, which is handy for moving to a new device or sharing with a parent. Files open in SchoolTracker on the other device.

SUPPORT, IF YOU LIKE

SchoolTracker is free. If it helps and you would like to support what comes next, Settings has three optional one-time thank-you purchases. Nothing in the app depends on them.

SchoolTracker is an independent app. It is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, Apple or Anthropic. Facts can be out of date or wrong, so please confirm important dates and costs on each school's own website.

Works on iPhone and iPad with iOS 18 or later.