Your paper planner can't ping you when a deadline is tomorrow. A generic calendar app doesn't know what INSET days are. Teacher Task Manager is a teacher planner app built around the way schools run: timetables, term dates, marking and everything in between. The core app is free forever, with no card needed.
Free forever, no card needed · Works offline · Installs on iOS, Android & desktop
Most teachers start the year with a paper planner and good intentions. By October half-term, it's buried under exercise books with half the pages blank. The problem isn't discipline. It's that a paper planner was never designed for the volume and variety of tasks a teacher juggles every single day.
Generic apps like Notion, Todoist, or Apple Reminders are powerful, but they don't know what a GCSE marking window is, they can't colour-code deadlines by whether they fall in term time or a holiday, and they have no concept of a bell schedule. You end up spending more time configuring your tools than using them.
Teacher Task Manager is an online teacher planner designed from the ground up for school staff. It knows what terms are, what INSET days look like, what a Period 5 lesson means, and what "books due back Friday" implies. You describe what you need to do, and it handles the rest.
One app for every part of your school workload, on any device and even offline. The core teacher planner is free forever, with no card needed.
Set up your weekly timetable once (class, room, period) and the app knows your day. See exactly what's coming up before the school week begins.
Enter your term dates, INSET days and holidays. Every task deadline is colour-coded by type (school day, weekend, holiday or INSET), so you never schedule work for a day off.
Plan lessons against your timetable. Draft objectives, a timed activity sequence, adaptations and assessment with AI, or write a standalone plan for a one-off lesson.
Type "Mark Year 10 essays by Thursday, urgent" and the app sorts out the date, priority and category. No dropdowns, no forms; just describe the task as you'd say it.
Switch between cards, list, Kanban board, calendar, weekly and workload views. See your week the way that makes most sense to you on any given day.
A private scratchpad always one tap away. Lesson ideas, meeting notes, observations, captured quickly before they disappear.
No app store download needed. On Android, open it in Chrome and tap Add to Home screen; on iPhone or iPad, use the Share menu in Safari. It then opens full screen like a normal app, and your tasks, timetable and notes are there whether or not the Wi-Fi is.
Most teachers cobble together their planning from multiple tools. Teacher Task Manager brings it all under one roof:
The result is less switching between apps, fewer things slipping through, and a clearer picture of what needs doing, and when.
Other ways Teacher Task Manager fits your school week.
Start free with no card required. Move your first week of tasks across in one sitting.