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Using AI in an education app without teaching wrong answers
AI can draft lessons, cards and questions quickly. Here's how we keep it accurate with human review, sources, care over outdated facts and capped costs.
Collecting less learner data
Diagnostics that need no account, deciding what a learning app should store, and privacy wording people can read. Practical choices, not legal advice.
Gamification that helps people learn
Streaks, badges and games can reward real practice or reward gaming the system. How we design them so the fastest way up is to actually learn.
Knowing whether learners actually learn
How to show learners and course owners real progress from the answer history, what is worth measuring, and why we never show an estimated number.
Launching a learning app on Google Play
The store listing, the Data safety form, content rating and what review checks, with the parts that need extra thought when the app is about learning.
Free, freemium or premium: locking lessons without hiding them
How to choose between free, freemium and paid for a learning product, why locked lessons should stay visible, and how to plan for subscriptions you'll add later.
One platform, several learning products
When a second focused learning site beats adding features to the first, what a shared platform needs to make that cheap, and what it costs.
Planning an exam prep app: why trust is the product
Sourcing questions, weighting by the exam guide, diagnostics and readiness scores. What to plan before building an exam prep app, and why trust comes first.
Spaced repetition, explained for product owners
What spaced repetition does for learners, what actually has to be built to support it, and what you can safely leave out of a first version.
Turning your course into an app: what to prepare first
Before an app is built around your course, the content needs a shape a computer can read. What to prepare, what an importer needs, and what to decide first.
Web, Android or both: where to launch a learning app
What the web and a phone are each good at for a learning product, when to start with one, and how to keep accounts and progress in step across both.
What drives the cost of an education app
Platforms, content import, accounts, payments, AI, offline use and admin tools. The scope decisions that make an education app cheaper or dearer, and how to start smaller.