You need a skill planner. Here's why.

EVE doesn't tell you that training Caldari Battleship V takes 33 real-life days. It doesn't tell you that remapping your attributes before a gunnery block saves you three weeks. It definitely doesn't tell you that your skill queue will run out at 3am on a Tuesday while you're asleep.

A skill planner catches all of that. You build a plan — “I want to fly a Golem” — and it works backwards through every prerequisite, calculates training time with your actual attributes and implants, and tells you exactly how long it'll take. Then it watches your queue and pings you when something needs attention.

The remap problem

EVE gives you two neural remaps. Use them wrong and you're stuck for a year training at 80% efficiency. EveLens has an attribute optimizer that takes your plan — say, 45 skills across 180 days — and simulates every possible combination of Perception, Willpower, Intelligence, Memory, and Charisma. It finds the split that finishes your plan fastest.

Real example: a 180-day combat plan (mostly Perception/Willpower skills) drops to about 153 days with the right remap. That's 27 days you get back. Almost a month of training, just from clicking one button.

When you have more than one character

This is where most people hit a wall. You've got your main, a hauler alt, maybe a few industry characters, and suddenly you're logging into 5 accounts every morning to check if skill queues are still running.

EveLens monitors all of them from one window. A clock icon in the status bar goes orange when someone's queue is running low. Click it — everyone's sorted by urgency, empty queues at the top. Click a name and you're looking at their full skill sheet. I run 30+ characters through it daily.

The Doctrine Designer (new in 1.3.0)

If you FC or run a corp, this one's for you. Build a skill template — “Muninn Fleet” — with all the required skills. Assign your members. Instantly see who can fly it, who's close, and who needs months. Generate a personal training plan for each pilot. No more pinging people to ask “can you fly X?”

The boring but important stuff

EveLens uses CCP's Static Data Export (build 3328718 — 51,551 item types). Training time calculations match the EVE client. 1,857 automated tests verify the math doesn't drift between releases. It talks directly to the ESI API — no middleman servers, your data stays on your machine.

Runs on Windows (signed installer with auto-updates), macOS (Apple Silicon .app), and Linux (AppImage). Free, open source, GPL v2. Four major releases since March 2026.