Free Timetable Maker, Build a Weekly Schedule

Most weekly planners fail for the same reason: they make you fill in a blank grid. You open one, face seventy empty cells, and close it again. This one starts you from a real week - Student, Professional, Fitness, Family, Creator and six more - so your first action is editing something rather than inventing everything. From there it behaves like the calendar apps you already know: drag on empty space to create a block, drag the block to move it (including to a different day), and grab its edge to resize. Everything snaps to 15-minute steps, so blocks line up without precise mouse work. Blocks can span any length, which matters because real commitments are not all one hour - a lab runs three hours and a standup runs fifteen minutes. Your schedule saves to this browser automatically and survives a reload, a closed tab and a restart; nothing is uploaded and no account exists. When you are happy with it, export a PNG for your phone's lock screen or a landscape PDF sized for A4 printing.

Key benefits

• Eleven ready-made weeks so you never start from an empty grid.
• True drag-and-drop: create, move across days, and resize with 15-minute snapping.
• Blocks of any length, because a three-hour lab and a fifteen-minute standup are both real.
• Saves automatically to your browser and survives reloads, closed tabs and restarts.
• Exports both PNG (for phones and sharing) and landscape A4 PDF (for printing).
• Runs entirely in your browser - your schedule is never uploaded and needs no account.

How to use it, step by step

1. Pick a starting template. Choose the closest match, or Simple for an empty grid. Loading a template replaces the current schedule.
2. Set your week. Adjust the start and end hours, and switch days on or off - a six-day week or a 6 AM start are both fine.
3. Drag to build. Drag on empty space to create, drag a block to move it between days and times, and pull its edge to resize.
4. Fill in the details. Click any block to set its title, type, colour and location, or to delete it.
5. Style and export. Pick a theme and font, then download a PNG or a print-ready A4 PDF.

Common use cases

• Laying out a semester class timetable with lectures, labs and study blocks.
• Blocking out deep-work time around recurring meetings.
• Planning a training split with recovery and meal prep around work hours.
• Coordinating school runs, activities and household jobs on one family sheet.
• Printing a revision timetable to stick on a wall during exam season.
• Building a shift rota that spans early and late shifts across seven days.

Pro tips

• Start from the closest template and delete what does not apply - editing is much faster than building from nothing.
• Use colour for categories rather than individual items. Five meanings you can recall beats twenty you cannot.
• Block your travel and breaks too. A schedule that only shows commitments will always look emptier than your week really is.
• Choose the Mono theme if you plan to photocopy or print on a black-and-white printer - colour-coded blocks turn into identical grey rectangles otherwise.
• Export a PNG and set it as your phone lock screen for the first week of a new routine, when you are most likely to forget it.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Scheduling every hour solid. A week with no gaps breaks on the first thing that overruns.
• Loading a different template after building your own schedule - it replaces what is there, so export first if you want to keep it.
• Relying on browser storage as your only copy. Clearing site data or using private browsing will remove it, so export anything important.
• Colour-coding so finely that the key becomes impossible to remember.
• Expecting it to sync across devices - it saves to this browser only, by design.

Frequently asked questions

Does my schedule stay saved after I close the browser?

Yes. Every change is written to this browser's local storage immediately, so it survives a reload, a closed tab and a restart. It is per-browser and per-device - it will not appear on your phone if you built it on a laptop. Clearing site data or working in private browsing will remove it, so export a PNG or PDF of anything you would hate to lose.

What does the Reset button clear?

It removes the blocks from your schedule and leaves your setup - hours, days, theme and font - alone. Loading a template is what replaces everything, so export first if you want to keep the current one.

Can I export it as a PDF as well as an image?

Both. PNG suits phone screens and messaging. PDF is generated in landscape A4 and scaled to fit inside the margins, so a week prints at readable size without being cropped - portrait would squeeze it into an unreadable strip.

How do I move or resize a block?

Drag its middle to move it, including sideways into a different day. Drag its top or bottom edge to change the start or end time. Everything snaps to 15-minute steps, and a single click opens the editor for the title, colour, type and location.

Which templates are included?

Simple, Student, Professional, Fitness, Family, Creator, Remote work, Teacher, Shift work, Freelance and Exam revision. Each is a realistic week rather than an illustration, so it is meant to be edited rather than used as-is.

Can blocks be shorter or longer than an hour?

Yes. Blocks run from 15 minutes to a full working day and are positioned by time, not by cell, so an 8 AM to 2 PM shift is a single block rather than six stacked ones.

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