BackpackBuddy reads your kids' teacher emails, finds the homework assignments and due dates in them, and puts them straight on your Google Calendar with a reminder, automatically. No more digging through your inbox to figure out what's due tomorrow.
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🔒 We only read emails from addresses you give us, nothing else in your inbox, ever.
Module 4, Lesson 37 + Read for 10 minutes
HomeworkMath worksheet pages 12-14, due Thursday
HomeworkPermission slip due Friday for field trip
Due SoonWeek of 4/7–4/11 saved to Google Drive
AttachmentYou're not a bad parent. You're a busy one, and homework reminders shouldn't be a second job.
It came in Monday with eleven other emails. By Wednesday night, nobody remembers it exists, until it's overdue.
Sticky notes, group chats, mental notes, none of it survives a busy week. Things fall through the cracks.
One teacher emails a PDF, another writes a paragraph, another links to a class site. Tracking it all by hand doesn't scale.
Sign in with Google. Tell us your kids' teacher email addresses. That's it.
Our AI scans teacher emails daily, including linked pages and attached PDFs, and pulls out homework, due dates, and instructions.
Each assignment becomes a Google Calendar event with a popup reminder, plus a daily digest of what we caught, in one place.
Set it up once. Assignments from teacher emails land on your calendar from then on.
Homework, worksheets, reading logs, and projects all get added to your Google Calendar with a popup reminder before they're due.
Attached PDFs are read automatically and re-checked for assignment details, so nothing hides in an attachment.
One clean evening summary of what's due, so you and your kid can plan the night before, not the morning of.
Track homework reminders for multiple children across different teachers, grades, and even different schools.
BackpackBuddy checks for existing calendar events before creating new ones, so your calendar stays clean, not cluttered.
We don't keep your emails, only the homework and event details we extract.
BackpackBuddy is free during beta, no card. The prices below are what you'll pay when we publicly launch.
🛡️ We're completing an independent security audit (CASA / OWASP ASVS) before public launch. Connecting Google may show an 'unverified app' screen while verification is in progress, that's expected during beta.
For one child
free during beta · price at launch
For busy families
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Power families
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BackpackBuddy reads the teacher emails you tell it to watch, including any linked pages or attached PDFs, and uses Claude AI to pull out assignments, due dates, and instructions automatically.
Yes. Assignments found in teacher emails become Google Calendar events with popup reminders, so they show up on your phone or computer ahead of the due date.
Yes. You can add multiple teachers per child on the Family and Premium plans, and each one's emails get scanned and turned into reminders separately.
If no specific date is given, the assignment still appears in your daily digest so you don't miss it, BackpackBuddy only adds a calendar event when there's a date or deadline to attach it to.
Yes. BackpackBuddy is free during our beta, with full features and no credit card required, on every plan.
That's fine, BackpackBuddy works with plain email, whatever your teacher already sends. No school adoption or special app needed. Want the bigger picture on getting all those teacher emails under control? See managing school email overload.
Set up in 3 minutes, connect your Google account and tell us your kids' teacher emails. Each assignment we find becomes a reminder, automatically. Once it's running, every event also syncs to your Google Calendar on your phone.
🔒 We only read emails from addresses you give us, nothing else in your inbox, ever.
Free during beta · No credit card · Your emails and calendar stay in your Google account.
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