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Kaela

Tonight’s worksheet is the password.

Photograph tonight’s worksheet. Kaela turns it into a short lesson and a quiz built from that page. Their phone stays locked until they score 80%, marked on our server, in about two seconds.

Four out of five is a pass. Missing one still opens the phone.

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No card. Android today, iPhone is not ready yet.

  • Stored in Sydney
  • Override in 2 taps
  • Unlocks in ~2 seconds
  • No analytics in the kid app

How it works

Thirty seconds of your night. Fifteen minutes of theirs.

No timetable to build, no rules to configure, no dashboard to learn. You photograph what came home in the school bag.

  1. 3/4 + 1/8 =2/3 of 18 =

    01

    3 taps

    You photograph the page

    Open Kaela, point at the worksheet, confirm. Three taps and you are done. A PDF works the same way.

  2. 3/4+1/8= 7/8RecallApplyStretch

    02

    About 15 minutes

    They get a lesson built from that page

    Three or four minutes, mostly drawn rather than written. Then five questions in three tiers: recall it, use it, stretch it.

  3. 80%

    03

    About 2 seconds

    80% opens the phone

    Marked on our server, not on the handset, so a device that claims it passed is not a device that passed.

And when they miss. Two minutes on only the parts they got wrong, then a fresh set of questions. Never the same questions twice, no waiting period, no cap on attempts. There is no version of this where the phone cannot be opened by doing the work.

How the tutor works

It teaches the page in the school bag, not a topic it picked.

Five steps, every time, in about fifteen seconds of setup. Here is the whole of it. There is no sixth step where it phones a human.

  1. 01

    Their work, not a syllabus

    It reads the page you sent

    Not a topic guess from a year level. The questions on that sheet, in the order that sheet asks them.

  2. 02

    One idea at a time

    It works out what is being taught

    Twelve fraction sums are one idea, not twelve. The lesson is built around the idea, so getting it fixes all twelve.

  3. 03

    3–4 minutes

    It teaches, mostly by drawing

    Bars, blocks and number lines before sentences. A child who could already read the explanation would not have needed the lesson.

  4. 04

    Recall, apply, stretch

    It asks five questions, in three tiers

    Fresh numbers every attempt, so nothing is memorisable and nothing is answerable by pattern-matching the last set.

  5. 05

    About 2 seconds

    It marks on our server

    Never on the handset. A phone that claims it passed is not a phone that passed, and 80% is the only thing that opens it.

What it takes

Whatever came home in the school bag.

There is no subject list to check against, because Kaela does not teach a subject. It teaches the page you photographed. If it is legible, it is a lesson.

On the handset

Four screens, photographed off a real phone.

Not renders, not mock-ups. These came off the Pixel 5 the lock was demonstrated on. The offline lock screen shipped after that run and has no photograph yet, so it is not here. It is in the playable demo.

The Kaela home screen with the phone unlocked and today's task waiting

The honest bit

Two locks on Android. One of them can be beaten.

Every product in this category implies the lock is unbreakable. One of ours nearly is. The other is not, and you should know which one you are installing before your kid finds out first.

AndroidLive today

Max Lock

Very hard to remove

Setup: About 20 minutes

Needs a factory reset first. You will set the phone up again from scratch: apps, logins, photos restored from backup.

What a determined kid can do

Very little. Kaela runs as the device owner, so it cannot be uninstalled, disabled in Settings, or cleared by a reset from the handset. Getting it off means a computer, a cable and deliberate effort.

Best for

A kid who has already found their way around a screen-time app.

AndroidLive today

Standard Lock

Holds up to normal effort

Setup: About 2 minutes

No reset. Grant two permissions and it is running.

What a determined kid can do

More than we would like. Safe mode, developer options and a couple of other routes are open to whoever owns the phone, and a teenager who searches for it will find them. Android leaves those doors open on purpose and we cannot close them from an app.

Best for

A kid who is not actively trying to break it. Most families start here.

iPhoneApproved, building

Screen Time lock

Not available yet

Setup: Not yet

Apple has granted us the Family Controls entitlement, which was the thing standing in the way. The lock itself is written but has not run on a real iPhone yet, so there is nothing to install today.

What a determined kid can do

Nothing to escape yet, because we cannot lock an iPhone today. We are not selling you a trial for a phone we cannot hold. When it does ship, this card will say exactly what a kid can do to it, the same way the Android cards do.

Best for

Join the waitlist. Apple said yes; we will email you when it actually locks a phone, not before.

Both Android tiers run the same product. Lessons, quizzes, the override and the survival list are identical. The only difference is how hard the lock is to remove, and you can move from Standard to Max later without losing anything. More on uninstalling.

Privacy

A lock, not a listening device.

You are being asked to install software on your child's phone. That deserves more than a link in the footer, so here it is in the middle of the page.

  • Stored in Sydney

    Database and uploaded files sit in the ap-southeast-2 region. Our API runs there too.

  • Training is opt-in, and off

    We do not train on your child's work unless you switch it on. The switch starts off and says what it does.

  • No analytics SDKs in the kid app

    Not one. No Firebase Analytics, no Meta SDK, no attribution kit. The kid app talks to us and to nobody else.

  • Export in one tap

    Everything we hold about your family, in a file, whenever you want it.

  • Delete in one tap, and it is real

    Rows and files removed, not hidden behind a deleted flag.

  • No screenshots, no keystrokes, no location

    We do not log which apps they opened or for how long. The report is about what they are learning.

Where your child’s worksheet actually goes

  1. 1

    The page you photograph

    Leaves your phone over an encrypted connection. Location data is stripped from the image before anything is stored.

  2. 2

    Kaela, Sydney

    Stored here, in Australia. Private buckets, short-lived links, one family cannot read another's rows.

  3. 3

    Our AI provider, overseas

    The text and the photo of their working go here to be turned into a lesson, a quiz and a mark. Not retained for training. This is the one hop that leaves Australia and we are not going to bury it.

Plenty of products say “Australian servers” and let you assume the AI is Australian too. Ours are, and it is not. Our servers and your stored data are in Sydney; the model runs on our AI provider’s infrastructure overseas.

Read the whole privacy page

Sunday morning

A weekly report that coaches, not one that spies.

No per-minute logs, no screenshots, no list of the apps they opened. What they are getting better at, where they are stuck, and one thing worth trying this week.

Ella · Year 6

Week of 28 July – 3 August

0

Lessons done

One on Thursday, three over the weekend

0%

Average score

Up from 78% last week

0

Passed first go

Out of four. Best week so far

Average score, last six weeks

24 points since late June

The dashed line is 80%, where the phone opens

Average quiz score by week
Week beginningAverage score
23 Jun58%
30 Jun64%
7 Jul61%
14 Jul73%
21 Jul78%
28 Jul82%

Where she is, topic by topic

Percentage correct across the last fortnight. The amber bar is the weak spot, called out underneath.

Percentage correct by topic
TopicCorrect
Equivalent fractions92%
Adding fractions84%
Times tables81%
Fractions to decimals46%

What is clicking

Equivalent fractions. She got every one of them, and she is getting there faster than she was a fortnight ago.

The weak spot

Turning a fraction into a decimal. Two out of five across the last two quizzes, and she pauses a long time before answering.

One thing to try

Ask her to say 3/4 as a decimal out loud at dinner. She gets there when she talks it through and stalls when she writes it down.

Pricing

$19.99 a month for the whole family.

A second child does not cost you another twenty dollars. Pick whichever trial suits how much you trust us today.

$19.99AUD / month

One price per family. Up to 5 kids.

GST included. No contract, no setup fee, no per-child charge.

  • Up to 5 kids on the one subscription
  • As many uploads, lessons and quizzes as you need
  • Max Lock and Standard Lock on Android
  • The parent override, two taps, no limit on how often
  • Survival list always open: calls to you, 000, wallet, maps, clock
  • A weekly report for each kid
  • One-tap export and one-tap delete
  • Email support from the people who built it
Nothing to cancel

7 days, no card

  • An email address is all we take.
  • When the week is up it stops. We have no way to charge you, so nothing can go wrong at the end.
  • The whole product. Nothing held back.
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Twice as long

14 days, with a card

  • Card details go to Stripe. We never see the number.
  • We email you three days before the first charge, and cancelling is two taps in settings.
  • The whole product. Same as the other one.
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Android only for now. Why iPhone is not ready. Full pricing detail.

Straight answers

The questions you are actually asking.

Including the ones that are awkward for us.

All 23 questions

Try it on tomorrow night’s homework.

Photograph one worksheet. Watch them work for it. Hit override once, just to prove to yourself that it works.

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No card for the 7-day trial. $19.99 AUD a month after that, up to 5 kids. Android today.