Free online study room, where people actually work

The next sessions, on your own clock.

Sessions start on a fifteen minute grid, all day and all night, and a session lasts either twenty five or fifty minutes. You are paired only with someone who picked the same time and the same length, so pick the length first.

The times above come from the clock on your device, so they are already the ones you read on your own watch. Booking needs an account, which is free and takes an email address and a code.

What happens once you are in.

The call opens by itself at the time you booked. The camera stays on for the whole session: the button to switch it off for a moment is there, for when somebody rings the doorbell, but the session happens on video, because a room where nobody can be seen is a room where nobody is really there. You are not required to show your face: plenty of people point the camera at the desk, at their hands, at the page they are working on.

The first thing to do is say in one sentence what you are going to do. Then the microphones go quiet and each of you works. At the end the timer stops on its own.

A time on the grid becomes a pair when two people pick the same one. Two is enough.

If nobody booked your time, the session starts anyway. The timer runs, and for the first 5 minutes we look for someone while you work. If nobody arrives, you choose: carry on with a virtual companion, and if you stay until the end the session counts in full, look for a person in the next quarter hour, or leave.

If you've been looking for a study buddy online and keep losing them after a few days, this is the difference: the time is the part that stays, and the person who booked it is the one who shows up.

• Who you meet: another person who booked the same time and the same length. Usually you do not choose who, but you can invite a friend with a link and mark a “Favourite companion”, whom we try to pair you with first. You can block someone you would rather not see again.
• What it costs: nothing. No credit card, no ads.
• Where the data is: database and video calls on servers in the European Union.

Why people actually work here.

1. A precise minute. The session starts at the time you chose, not “whenever”. There's a person who joins at that time to work alongside you.
2. One person, not an audience. There are two of you. No scrolling chat, nobody asking “what are you studying?” every five minutes.
3. Cameras on, microphones off. You see each other working, and after the first sentence nobody talks.
4. An end. 25 or 50 minutes, then the timer stops on its own and the session is saved. If you want, you book the next one.

Everything inside, free.

The room is the centre. Around it are the tools of a study day, all in the same place and all free.

• Open 24 hours a daySundays and holidays too: a session every quarter hour.
• Invite whoever you wantPick a day and time and send a link: the time is held for the person you invite.
• 25 or 50-minute timerOn your own too, without a video call.
• Study soundsWhite noise, brown noise, rain: no ads.
• Your day in blocksHow many blocks you need and when you finish.
• Weighted GPA calculatorCredit-weighted average, in your browser.

What a study room is not.

It is not a tutor and it is not help with the work itself: nobody checks what you are doing or explains it to you. It is not a group chat, because the point is the silence. And it is not a stream to leave playing in another tab, because on the other side there is one person, at one time, who is waiting for you and not for an audience.

Many people work better when someone is expecting them at a set time. That is a statement about what people do, not a promise about what it will do to you: the only way to find out is one session.