Pricing
Anything involving other people is free
Not free for now — free because charging for it would break it. A group workspace only works when the whole group is in it, and a price is exactly the thing that stops the third member joining.
What your marker wrote is free for a different reason: it is their words about your work, and charging you to read your own post would be absurd.
Free
$0
No card, no trial that expires.
- This week, across every courseSeven days, nothing further.
- Discussions — who has posted, who hasn't
- What your marker wrote, kept with the workComments in full, on the assignment page rather than behind a speech bubble. Including courses that have already ended.
- Group workspaces: chat, tasks, timezonesFree for everyone, always — a group only works if the whole group is in it.
Waypoint Plus
$4.99 / month
Cancel any time, keep it to the end of the month.
- What an assignment is graded on — and where the marks wentThe rubric split before you start, and once it is marked, what you were given on each criterion rather than what each was worth.
- What you need on what's leftWeighted categories, drop rules, every letter still in reach.
- Guidance before you startPlannedHow to approach the work — never the work itself.
- Email digestsPlannedThe week ahead, and anything about to go wrong. Not sending yet — no mail provider is connected, so this is listed as planned rather than included.
- Everything in Free
You upgrade from inside the app, once you can see what you would be paying for.
Why the line is where it is
The split is not about which features are impressive. It is about which ones stop working if you charge for them.
Group chat, tasks and shared files need everyone in your group present. Put $4.99 between a student and a group workspace and one of the four will not pay — and then it is useless for the three who did. So it is free, permanently, and it will not become a paid tier once there are enough users to squeeze.
What Plus buys is analysis done for one person: reading the rubric and telling you where the marks actually sit, working out what you need on what is left, guidance before you start. That work benefits you alone, so you alone can pay for it.
For institutions
Schools can license Waypoint for every student at once. That is the version this is actually built for — Plus exists for students whose school has not done it yet.
If you administer Canvas at a university, get in touch. Or read exactly what it reads and what it cannot do first — every scope it requests, generated from the list the application actually sends.