Studying · for students studying for exams with friends
StudyCrew is a group study timer for students who want to study alongside other people without sitting on a video call. Join a public study room with one tap, or make your own crew with an invite code. Whenever someone starts their timer, everyone in the room sees them as studying, with their clock counting up, and timers update live for everyone in the room. Today's and this week's hours line up as a ranking inside a crew. Studying solo, it is still a complete timer with a streak, a daily goal, and a month map. No sign-up: StudyCrew keeps an anonymous account for this browser.
Open a room and every running timer shows a green dot and a clock counting up second by second. If someone is already an hour in, the Start studying button sits right above the list. Press it, and your row turns green on their screens right away.
Press Join a room. If a public room has a free seat you are in at once. If not, a five-second countdown runs and a two-hour room opens in your name, so the next person who presses Join lands next to you. Make a room instead to pick the length, the number of seats, a name and a tag, or to open a code-only room for people you choose.
A crew is for friends and it stays. Make one and share its six-character code, which skips look-alike characters such as 0, O, 1 and I. Friends type the code, pick the nickname this crew will see, and land on the crew screen with everyone's clock, today's total and this week's ranking.
Most students who study with friends end up doing it at a distance. Someone starts a video call and everyone mutes it, someone posts "starting now" in the group chat, someone else plays a study-with-me video in the background. Each works for a while. A muted call usually still means keeping a camera on for hours. A chat message scrolls away in ten minutes, and nobody can tell who actually kept going after saying they would.
StudyCrew turns the "starting now" message into the timer itself. Pressing Start is the announcement. The people in your room see your nickname, a green "studying" line with the time since you started, and your total for today, and that is all they see. There is no camera, no microphone, and no screen sharing.
Before your first class you press Join a room and land in a room where two people are already at it, so you press Start studying from the same screen. The clock is large and plain: hours, minutes and seconds, with Take a break and Finish underneath. Close the tab or lock the phone. The timer stores the moment you started rather than a running count, so the time is right when you come back.
Rooms have a length, from 25 minutes to an overnight session that ends at 06:00, and a number of seats. Timers update live for everyone in the room. In a room that shows breaks, a paused timer reads "break · back at 21:40" so nobody wonders where you went. When the room's time is up it closes, each person's time in the room shows once, and the room disappears from the list. Your own record stays in My study.
In a crew, the Today tab is a ranking that keeps itself current. Totals include time that is still running, so the order shifts while people study. The This week tab adds up finished sessions from Monday to Sunday, which gives a group something to chase without anyone keeping score in a spreadsheet.
In the app, StudyCrew can also nudge you: one of seven reminder times between 7:00 and 22:00 that stays quiet on a day you have already logged a session, and a 9 pm evening summary for days when you are still short of your daily goal. Both are local notifications scheduled on your phone. The web version has no reminders, because a browser cannot schedule a notification for a set time.
Rooms and crews often span cities. StudyCrew counts each member's today by that member's own local midnight, so someone studying late in another time zone is not split across two days. Weeks follow the same rule, Monday through Sunday. In the room queue you can ask for a room in your own time zone, or one with the same tag, such as an exam name.
The timer never waits for the network. Start or finish a session with no signal and the session is queued in the browser, then sent the next time the page opens with a connection. The server keeps the duration you timed. It only trims a session that claims more time than actually passed between its start and its finish.
The timer works on its own, with no account at all. Every finished session feeds My study, no sign-in needed: today against your goal, a streak of consecutive days with any study, this week's and this month's totals, and a month map where each day is shaded by how long you studied.
The streak is forgiving in one specific way. If you have not studied yet today, it counts back from yesterday, so the number does not drop to zero at midnight; it only breaks when a whole day passes with nothing. Daily goals come in steps from 30 minutes to 6 hours.
There is no video, no voice, and no chat. A room is a list of clocks, not a video call, because the point is to get back to the books. In a public room, strangers see only your nickname and your clock. No profile, no messages, no way to contact you. Crews are invite-only, and each crew gets its own nickname from you. There is no public leaderboard across rooms.
It does not block apps or lock your phone, and it never asks what subject you are studying. Open the menu next to any member to report their nickname or block them. A blocked person shows as (hidden) on your screen, and a nickname reported several times is hidden automatically. The crew owner can also remove members, and anyone can leave a room or a crew without losing their own study records.
Yes. Timers update live for everyone in the room: when someone presses Start, their row turns green on your screen right away, and each running clock counts up second by second. Nobody sees video, audio, or your screen; a room sees a nickname, a studying or taking-a-break line, and time totals.
No sign-up. The timer runs without any account. The first time you join a room, make one, or enter a crew code, StudyCrew keeps an anonymous account for this browser, with no email or password. Clear your browser data and the history on this device is gone, so export it first from Settings. A session you time offline is queued and sent later; the server accepts queued sessions up to a week old.
If no public room has a free seat, a five-second countdown runs and a two-hour room for eight opens in your name. The next person who presses Join lands in it. You can also press Make a room to choose the length (25 minutes, 50 minutes, 2, 4 or 8 hours, overnight until 06:00, or your own number), the seats (4, 8, 16 or 50), a name, a tag, whether breaks are shown, and whether the room is public or code-only.
The rooms you join (their name and tag), the names of crews you create or join, the nickname you use in each room or crew, for each session its start time, end time, duration, local date, and time-zone offset, and any report or block you make. StudyCrew does not ask for location, contacts, photos, camera, or microphone, and it has no field for what you are studying.
Today's ranking adds up each member's time for their own local day, so everyone's day resets at their own midnight. The weekly tab runs Monday to Sunday and counts finished sessions. A room's result counts only the time each person studied while the room was open.
Open the menu next to a member to report their nickname or block them; blocked members show as (hidden) for you. The crew owner can also remove a member, and a nickname reported several times is hidden automatically. A public room has no host controls beyond that; it simply closes when its time is up.
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