One ecosystem, every pillar

Your whole student life,
held up by one app.

Courses, tasks, calendar, sleep, focus, and memories — Pillars replaces the pile of separate apps with a single, calm home base built for how students actually live.

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The problem

Why juggle 7 apps to track your life, when one ecosystem can hold it all?

Calendar app To-do app Notes app Sleep tracker Focus timer Photo storage Grade tracker
Pillars — everything, one place

No more switching contexts, re-entering the same deadline three times, or losing a memory in a fourth photo app. One login, one design language, one habit to build.

Why "Pillars"

The pillars of a life are load-bearing — lose one, and everything else feels unsteady.

Academics, rest, focus, health and memory aren't separate to-do lists; they're the columns your whole term stands on. Pillars was built around that idea: a single, sturdy structure that supports every part of student life at once, instead of a dozen apps each holding up their own small corner.

Academics Rest Focus Memory
About us

Built by students, for the way students actually live

Pillars started as a shared frustration: campus life comes with a dozen disconnected tools, and none of them talk to each other. We set out to build the one that does — quiet, well-made, and genuinely useful every single day.

Where our earliest users study
Our belief

Structure should feel calm, not clinical

Every screen in Pillars borrows from paper and quiet studios rather than dashboards and inboxes — because the tool that holds your life together shouldn't feel like more work.

Features

Everything a term needs, none of the clutter

Each feature is a pillar on its own — strong enough to replace a dedicated app, simple enough to disappear into the background.

Google/Outlook-style calendar

Month, week and day views with click-to-add events, colour-coded courses and tasks.

Pomodoro focus timer

Built-in work/break cycles with gentle notifications so you never lose the thread.

Sleep & wellness logs

Track rest alongside workload, and see how one actually affects the other.

Photo & memory widgets

Pin photos to your home dashboard as square or wide tiles — a scrapbook that lives where you work.

Customizable, top to bottom

Choose your accent colour and switch between light, dark and paper-toned themes — Pillars adapts to you, not the other way around.

Local-first calendar

Keep events on-device with no sync, or mirror your Google/Outlook calendar when you're ready.

Home dashboard

Your day, plus the moments around it

Drop in a photo from last night's study group or your favourite lecture-hall view, resize it to a square or a wide tile, and it sits right on your dashboard next to today's tasks.

No separate gallery app, no digging through camera roll — just a home screen that actually looks like your life.

Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

Start free. Upgrade whenever you want the full ecosystem — one flat price, billed once a year.

Free
$0
forever
  • Calendar, tasks & courses
  • Pomodoro timer
  • Up to 4 photo widgets
  • 1 device
BEST VALUE
Pillars Plus
$35.99
per year — just $3/month, billed annually
  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited photo widgets
  • Google/Outlook calendar sync
  • Custom colour & theme options
  • Sync across unlimited devices
Download

Get Pillars on everything you use

Native apps for desktop and mobile — your dashboard, calendar and widgets follow you everywhere.

macOS

AVAILABLE

Windows

AVAILABLE

iOS

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Android

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FAQ

Questions, answered

Is my data private?
Yes. Local-mode calendar data never leaves your device, and synced data is protected the same way as the rest of your account.
Can I switch between local and synced calendar later?
Absolutely — toggle it any time from calendar settings without losing existing events.
What does Pillars Plus include?
Unlimited photo widgets, calendar sync with Google/Outlook, custom colour and theme options, and multi-device sync — all for a flat $35.99/year.
Which schools are supported?
Pillars works anywhere — we're just especially popular right now at uOttawa, Carleton, Queen's, Western, UofT and Toronto Metropolitan.
Is there a student discount?
Pillars Plus is already priced for students at $35.99/year — no separate discount code needed.