For K–2 teachers and school leaders

A ten-minute writing center that runs itself and leaves something for the portfolio.

A child says what happened today, the words appear on a ruled page, and they write over them in their own hand. The app marks each letter as they write, teaches stroke order when a letter is drawn out of order, and keeps every finished page as a dated journal in the child's handwriting.

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Runs itself

No logins for children, no Wi-Fi to write, no class setup. A child picks their name and taps New Entry. Stopping part-way is fine — the words wait on the page for next time.

Shared iPads work

Several children on one iPad, a profile each, with an optional PIN. Each keeps their own journal, typeface and size, and a grown-up PIN stands in front of sending, exporting, websites and deleting.

Something for the portfolio

A teacher exports any page, a month, or everything as a PDF, with the typed words alongside if you want them, for the folder or the parent conference. It takes the grown-up PIN, set up once on each iPad.

In the classroom

Set up in five minutes. Install from Apps and Books. Add a profile per child on each iPad and pick a letter style and size for the class. No accounts for children, and nothing to configure before they write.
Center time. Ten minutes at a station: say it, write it, tap I'm finished. The practice sheet — every letter Aa to Zz and 0 to 9, each drawing itself stroke by stroke — is the warm-up.
Conference time. Export a child's journal as a PDF, from Export a journal in the app's Settings. Progress is kept per font-and-size setting, so a harder setting never looks like regression.

For the office

The children's work stays on the iPad. No account for a child, no advertising, analytics or crash reporting. Speech recognition runs on the iPad and no audio is recorded. Nothing a child writes leaves the device unless an adult exports a PDF — or a grown-up sets up sending pages, which is optional, off until they do, and not needed in a classroom. Privacy policy.
The grown-up PIN. Exporting a PDF, opening a website and deleting sit behind a four-digit PIN that only a signed-in adult can choose — never whoever happens to be holding the iPad. So a teacher sets each iPad up once: from their own iPhone or on the iPad itself, they sign in with Apple or by email, answer the age check (Apple's on iOS 26 or later; before that the app asks the year they were born and keeps only the answer) and choose the PIN. With Not now — just the PIN nothing about the children is sent; our service then holds the teacher's own account and the iPad's pairing, the iPad's name included. Until an iPad is set up, children can write on it and nothing can be exported from it.
Cost. The basic app is always free. Distribute it through Apps and Books in Apple School Manager like any other app — nothing to license, no per-seat cost. The app's one paid feature, Send to friends, is a subscription for families; it cannot be bought through Apps and Books, and a classroom uses nothing that is paid.
Paperwork. Nothing to sign to install it. If your district has a student-data-privacy form, send it over and we will complete and sign it. The privacy policy lists exactly what the app holds, and for how long.
Setup. iPad, iOS 18 or later, and ideally an Apple Pencil for each iPad — the app is designed for it, and works with a finger where there isn't one. Left-handed layout and color-blind ink (blue and orange in place of green and red) are built in, per child.

Free classroom pilot — autumn 2026

Five to ten K–2 classrooms, October to January. Install it on the classroom iPads, use it as a center or station for a few weeks, and fill in one short form at the end. Your feedback sets what is built next for classrooms, and you hear about it first. Email to take part.

What it does not have yet

No teacher dashboard, no class roster, no sync between iPads. The journal runs on iPad; there is no Chromebook version. English only. Sending pages to a grown-up's phone is built for a family, not a class, so the PDF is how work goes home. We would rather you knew before you said yes.