Join the private beta.
Spots in the first release are limited. Beta families use the Android app on real days and real trips, tell us where it falls short, and help build the one thing we can’t build alone: a library of real places, shared by families who actually stopped there. Once every spot is taken, new signups go on a waiting list, and we let families in from it in the order they joined.
Kids in regular school? You’re welcome too — families who take trips with Adventure Mode help build the library just as much.
- The Android app, used every day by the family building it.
- Today: the day as a rhythm, the kind of day, a “rough day” button, the weather, and lessons written for each child, saved to the phone for no signal. It replans itself around the calendars already on your phones, and asks before it assumes an outing is the whole family.
- Lessons run as cards, one step at a time. In a family lesson each child’s step for that moment sits on the same card, so one adult runs all of them at once and a child whose part is shorter is simply finished. Kid mode needs a PIN to get out.
- Routines with picture cards and timers, stars and chore pay.
- Trips: bring in a route, see every national park site along it, lessons for each day, and a “get ready for no signal” button.
- On the road: state lines, historic markers, fuel-stop math, tonight’s sky with the nearest certified dark-sky places, read-alouds, crafts, scavenger hunts and a Sunday devotion.
- Junior Ranger badges at the national parks and twenty-two state parks, with ranger program times and entrance fees straight from the Park Service.
- 2703 hand-written skills and milestones across 22 subjects, each one checked automatically.
- Add a lesson from any book you already own or any topic a child asks about, written once per child at each one’s own level — including from NASA.
- The history of all fifty states and the territories, hand-written: your own state, and every state you have been in beside it.
- Spanish, French, Mandarin and Latin, and a phrase inside an English lesson is read in its own language’s voice — so a child hears “¿Cómo estás?” the way a Spanish speaker says it.
- Records that can’t be quietly changed, progress reports, a transcript you can issue, courses named from a template, and a full download of your family’s data.
- Grandparents and sitters with limited access that runs out, and kids’ own devices with screen-time limits you set.
- A weekly postcard for grandparents and a family yearbook.
- Adventure Mode, for families whose children are in school.
- Records, the curriculum library and each child’s progress working with no signal (today they need a connection).
- A diploma you can issue from inside the app.
- Prices and paying for a plan.
- An iPhone app, and a listing on the Play Store.
- Maps inside the app (directions open in your own maps app).
- Printable nature journals and packets.
- State parks and museums as searchable places alongside the national parks (their Junior Ranger badges are already in).
- Outings shared with other families.
Four things, none of them hard.
- Tell us about places. The ones worth stopping at, what worked for which ages, where a big RV can actually park. Start on the form below.
- Put it through real life. Take it somewhere with no signal for a week. Log the same outing on both parents’ phones. Close the app halfway through. The problems we can’t find in our own driveway are the ones that matter most.
- Tell us when it’s wrong. Especially when a lesson talks down to your child, comes at the wrong time, or just doesn’t fit the child it was made for.
- Be patient with a work in progress. Things will break. We’ll tell you when they do.
Free in the beta.
Free for every family in the beta
The first release is free for the families in it. We don’t ask for a card, and there’s no free-trial clock quietly ticking away.
Founder pricing, to be decided
You’re helping build the library that makes this worth paying for, and that should count for something. We haven’t settled what founder pricing looks like yet. It will be published before anyone pays anything.
Credit for the places you share
A real person reviews every place before it goes into the library — and your family is credited as the one who found it.
A direct line
Beta emails go straight to the family building this, and the questions on the form get read first.
Five minutes, and the middle part helps most.
Everything except your email address is optional. We ask for your children’s age ranges, never their names or birthdays — see what we do with all of this.