AssignMint: A My Study Life Alternative for Canvas Students
If you are shopping for a My Study Life alternative, you are probably after the same three things: somewhere to keep every deadline, a clear view of the week ahead, and a planner you will actually open more than once. AssignMint covers those, and then goes a step further — it pulls your assignments out of Canvas for you, and it can lock the apps that keep you from finishing them.
What you get with AssignMint
Your Canvas assignments, imported automatically. The AssignMint Chrome extension reads your Canvas courses and keeps your assignment list current — every assignment, course, and due date, without you typing any of it in. You can still add readings, study sessions, and anything else Canvas does not know about by hand.
A dashboard that shows the whole semester. Your assignments grouped by urgency, a day-by-day breakdown of this week, a month calendar color-coded by course, and upcoming exams — all on one screen.
App blocking on your phone. This is the part a planner cannot do. The AssignMint iPhone app keeps Instagram, TikTok, and whatever else you pick behind a lock screen until the assignments due in your chosen window are finished. Submit the work in Canvas and the block lifts on its own.
How this differs from a traditional planner
Most student planners are a place to write things down. That works right up until the week you are busiest, which is exactly the week you stop updating it — and a planner nobody updates is worse than no planner, because you start trusting a list that is out of date.
AssignMint is built so the list maintains itself. Canvas is the source of truth, the extension does the data entry, and the blocking rules read from that same list. There is nothing to keep in sync by hand, and skipping the work has a cost you will notice.
Moving over
Setup takes a few minutes and everything below is free:
- Create an account — no credit card required.
- Install the Chrome extension so your Canvas assignments import themselves. There is a step-by-step install guide if you want it.
- Get the iPhone app if you want the app blocking — sign in with the same account you use on the web.
Worth knowing before you switch: AssignMint's automatic import is built specifically around Canvas, so it is the right fit if your school uses Canvas and a weaker one if it does not. Assignments from anywhere else have to be added manually. The FAQs cover the common setup questions, and Canvas Synced Assignments explains how completion is verified.
AssignMint is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by My Study Life. Product names are used here only to describe what students are comparing.