Sophia Studies is named after my daughter. It was built for her, in our house, about two years before it occurred to me that anyone else might want it.
It started with the index cards. She'd come home on a Thursday with a study guide folded into the bottom of her backpack and a test the next morning, and we'd end up at the kitchen table while I copied out the same twenty terms in handwriting she could barely read. It took the better part of an hour. She was finished with me after ten minutes, and I don't blame her. My quizzing voice is not good.
The part that bothered me most was that the guide her teacher sent home was already the right material. Nobody needed a curriculum. She needed to be asked those exact twenty things, over and over, in a way that didn't sound like her father asking. So I wrote something that reads a photo of the guide and makes the cards, the matching rounds, the practice tests, and the picture questions, because her science tests always showed a diagram and asked what it was.
She used it. Not every night, and not without complaining. What I can tell you is what the app tells me: which nights she practiced, how her scores moved across attempts, and the four questions she kept getting wrong. That's what I wanted, and it's what the results page shows you.
There is no button in this app that finishes an assignment. I have never wanted one and I'm not going to add one. I'm the parent who has to sign the test when it comes back, and a tool that hands my kid the answers would have made my Thursday nights easier and my daughter's Friday mornings worse.
— Daniel, dad and sole developer