UnivTrack

UnivTrack is a free, open-source attendance tracker for college and high-school students who need to keep course absences within set limits. Its term setup, live absence counts, and offline-capable PWA make it a practical fit for individual tracking, provided its weekday schedule caps match your timetable.

Overview

Students create academic terms, set up weekday course slots, and record each class as attended, absent, or a holiday/no-class day. Live counts show absences by course and flag courses nearing or over their limits, turning a weekly record into a usable warning system. Attendance capture is manual, so the app depends on students keeping records current rather than capturing attendance automatically.

Terms can have custom names, start dates, and lengths of 5 to 18 weeks, with no stated cap on the number of terms. After a term's final week passes, it becomes read-only. That protects a finished term from further changes, but makes the setup less forgiving if a past record needs correction.

Key features

• Weekday schedules: Set up to five morning and five afternoon course slots for each weekday, Monday through Friday. This covers many student timetables, but the fixed per-period and weekday structure may not suit schedules with more courses in a period or classes outside those days.
• Attendance and bulk updates: Mark classes attended, absent, or holiday/no class; long-press actions can update previous weeks in bulk. The bulk action can reduce repetitive correction, while manual marking still requires regular upkeep.
• Absence monitoring: Live course-level absence counts and warnings for courses approaching or exceeding their limits help students spot risk before it becomes harder to address.
• Installable and offline-capable: The PWA offers an offline app shell, a home-screen icon, and full-screen mode. It runs on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it usable across common phone and computer platforms.
• Language and data: English and Turkish translations are included, with browser-language detection. The app uses Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore, and says user data stays in the user's own Firebase project, with no third-party ads or tracking.

Pricing

Free — free, free forever. The plan includes unlimited academic terms and up to five morning and five afternoon course slots per weekday. There is no paid tier described; the practical constraint is the schedule cap, not a term quota. For students whose timetable fits those limits, the free plan includes the core attendance and absence-monitoring functions without a subscription.

UnivTrack is MIT-licensed. Students who want to self-host can use the local setup or Vercel deployment instructions, but must configure their own Firebase project. That adds setup responsibility in exchange for control over the project holding their data.

Platforms

UnivTrack is an installable PWA for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its offline app shell and full-screen mode give it some app-like convenience without limiting it to one operating system. The listed integrations include Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Vercel deployment, and opt-in Vercel Analytics.

Who it's for

UnivTrack suits students who want a personal record of attendance, need to monitor course absence limits, and are comfortable marking classes themselves. It is a weaker fit for timetables that exceed its five-slot morning or afternoon weekday caps, or for anyone who needs completed terms to remain editable. GitHub issues are the route for bug reports, while feature suggestions go to discussions.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Unlimited terms at no cost: Students can maintain separate academic terms without a term-count ceiling or recurring fee.
• Warnings tied to course limits: Live counts and approaching-limit highlights make it easier to see which courses need attention.
• Broad device coverage: An installable PWA works across mobile and desktop platforms and includes an offline app shell.
• Self-hosting option: The MIT license and deployment instructions support users who want to run the project with their own Firebase setup.

Cons

• Manual attendance entry: Students must record attendance themselves; there is no automated capture described.
• Fixed schedule structure: The per-weekday morning and afternoon limits may exclude more complex timetables.
• Finished terms are read-only: A mistake in a completed term cannot be corrected through ordinary editing.
• Self-hosting takes configuration: Users deploying their own instance must supply and configure a Firebase project.

Alternatives

Student Attendance Software is the broader category to explore if UnivTrack's student-focused schedule and individual manual tracking do not match your needs.

• QRaten is a better candidate for students or members who want QR/code attendance and personal history rather than manual class-by-class records. Its free plan is forever, and a free trial is also offered.
• Bulsee is another free option on Android, iOS, and web if you want to compare a different attendance product; no further product distinction is established.
• QRoll may suit users with approved access who want to consider a tool built by a UC San Diego instructor; access is limited and subject to approval at QRoll's discretion.
• Rollcallz is aimed at organizations with 500 or more users and uses custom enterprise pricing, rather than UnivTrack's free individual-student model.
• SchoolPass Visitor Management is a paid alternative for readers considering a different attendance-related product.
• Attendances is worth considering for schools seeking an institution-specific quote; pricing depends on student and staff numbers, modules, and scale, and a free trial is offered.
• Jisc Attendance Monitoring is a paid alternative for readers comparing other attendance monitoring products.
• SwipeK12 is a paid option with pricing by request for its starting package, rather than a free student tracker.

Verdict

Choose UnivTrack if you are a student who wants a free, cross-platform way to log classes and watch course absence limits without capping the number of terms. Its combination of live warnings, offline-capable PWA access, and self-hosting option is compelling for personal tracking. Look elsewhere if you need automated attendance capture, a timetable beyond its weekday slot limits, or the ability to edit a term after it ends.