Private study room on a laptop with four friends studying together on video under a rose neon heart sign
Study with friends

Study with your own friends, not a room full of strangers

One private room, one link, and nobody has to make an account to use it.

  • Private link
  • No accounts for anyone
  • No 40-minute cutoff

The link never expires. Pin it once and it still opens the same room in March.Illustration generated with AI

From click to room
40s
Link that never expires
1
Friends max per room
30
Accounts for anyone
0

01

The group chat says "study tonight?" and then nothing happens

Study with friends online should take forty seconds, not a scheduling negotiation.

Someone sends it at four. Two people react with a thumbs up. By seven, one of you is asking which app, one is asking for the link, and one has quietly decided they'll catch up tomorrow. The studying never had a chance. It died during logistics.

Then there's the tool problem. A meeting link cuts you off at 40 minutes, right in the middle of the only productive stretch you had. Another one wants everyone to have an account, which means one friend spends the first fifteen minutes resetting a password for software they will never open again.

None of this is about discipline. Four people who want to revise together should not need a shared calendar, an app install, and a support ticket. They need a door that stays in the same place and opens for anyone holding the handle, the same idea behind online study groups, just for one evening instead of every week.

02

Forty seconds, start to finish

  1. 1

    Make the room

    Click once and you have a private room with its own address. Name it after the module, the exam, or the group chat, so people recognise it later.

  2. 2

    Send the one link

    Paste it into the group chat. The same link works tonight, next Tuesday, and in March. It doesn't expire and it doesn't regenerate.

  3. 3

    They land straight in

    Your friends click and they're in the room. No signup, no download, no app store, no 'waiting for the host to admit you'.

Phone showing a group chat with a shared study room link in front of a laptop with friends on videoAI-generated

03

What the link does, and what it doesn't

The link is the room. Anyone holding it can walk in, which is exactly what you want for four classmates and exactly what you don't want for the wider internet, so the room is never listed publicly and never appears in the browse list.

If you want tighter control, you can lock the room once everyone is inside, and latecomers knock instead of walking in. The room doesn't empty itself when the last person leaves. This is a private study room link, not a disposable one.

The link never expires
Pin it in the chat once and stop re-sending it.
No accounts, for anyone
Including the friend who refuses to install things.
Lock when you're all in
New arrivals knock and you let them in or you don't.
Empty is fine
An unattended room costs nothing and keeps its name.

04

What's inside your room

Young man laughing at his desk while studying with two friends from other cities on a laptopAI-generated

Private, and not in the directory

Your room isn't in the public browse list and isn't searchable. The link is the only way in.

A shared timer everyone can see

Anyone in the room can start a block, and the counter runs at the same number for all of you. Prefer a 25 and 5 rhythm? That's a Pomodoro study room.

Cameras optional, one person at a time

Some groups all go camera-on, some never do, and mixed rooms work fine.

Up to 30 in the room

Four friends, a whole seminar group, or the entire module chat.

A text panel that keeps the links

Paste past papers, slides, and answers in the side panel so people aren't hunting through three chats for the PDF someone shared.

05

Who uses this to study with friends online

  • 01

    Classmates on the same module

    The four people who actually reply, working through the same problem set on a Tuesday night.

  • 02

    Friends who moved away

    People who used to revise in the same library and now live two cities apart.

  • 03

    Siblings and housemates studying apart

    Different courses, different rooms, same background company.

  • 04

    Language exchange partners

    Two people who need a room they can open on a schedule without booking anything.

06

Questions before you join

Do my friends need an account?

No. They click the link and they're in the room, with no signup, no email, and no app to install. You don't need an account either.

Is the room private?

Yes. It isn't listed in the public room browser and can't be found by searching. The only way in is the link, and you can lock the room once everyone has arrived.

Does the link expire?

No. It's the same address every time, so you can pin it in your group chat and use it for a whole term. The room keeps its name and settings even when nobody's inside.

Is there a time limit on the session?

No cutoff at 40 minutes or at any other point. Stay for six hours if the exam is on Thursday. Nobody gets dropped and no one has to restart the call.

How many friends can join?

Up to 30 people in one room. That's enough for a full seminar group, though most study groups sit somewhere between three and eight.

Can someone I don't know get in?

Only if they get the link. Keep it to your group chat, and lock the room if you're worried about it being forwarded.

What if my friends are on phones?

It runs in a phone browser, so they can join from a phone with nothing to download. Camera and mic work the same way, and the shared timer stays in sync with everyone on laptops.

Private study room on a laptop with four friends studying together on video under a rose neon heart sign

Make the room before you send the message

Have the link ready when someone asks "study tonight?" and the evening survives.

Make a private room

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