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On Today, tap Log today. Choose the children (several at once is fine), tap a subject, and say or type what you did. Minutes, book titles and photos of the work are optional. Tap Save, or Save & add another for the next subject.

Yes. On Today, tap Count today as a school day, just under the Log today card. You can add what you did later, or leave it as it is.

Open Calendar, tap the day, and add an entry or count it as a school day. You can also change the date at the top of any entry. Entries can be dated today or any earlier day, and nothing is ever marked late or missed.

In an entry, under Work samples, tap Take a photo or Choose photos. Each photo stays with its entry and appears in the portfolio under the entry’s subject, in date order. Tap a photo to see it full screen.

A school day for a child is any day with at least one entry that includes that child. Hours are the sum of the minutes on that child’s entries; minutes are optional, so you can count days without hours.

The school year runs from 1 July to 30 June. In Pennsylvania, Today shows each child’s days against 180.

The app needs your permission to use the microphone, speech recognition and the camera. On your iPhone, open Settings → Privacy & Security, then Microphone, Speech Recognition or Camera, and turn on School Days (the name under the app icon).

Dictation also depends on your iPhone’s language settings. Typing always works, and Choose photos works without camera access.

Yes. Choose Explore with a sample family on the welcome pages, or Settings → Load sample family. You can look around and make the sample family’s PDF for free. When you’re ready, Settings → Erase all data clears everything.

Open Portfolio, tap the child, then Create portfolio PDF. Pick where it goes in the share sheet: Mail, Files, AirDrop or print. There is one PDF per child per school year, with a cover, a summary, the log of educational activities, the reading list and samples of work.

Add your name in Settings so it is printed on the cover.

Photos make the PDF larger: about 30 MB for 100 photos, more than most email accepts. Send it with AirDrop, save it to Files or iCloud Drive and share a link, or print it.

No. Homeschool Days records what you did and formats it. It does not give legal advice. The Portfolio screen shows a plain summary of what Pennsylvania or Florida asks for; check the current rules with your school district or evaluator.

Pennsylvania and Florida are built in: their subjects, and in Pennsylvania the count against 180 days and every mandatory course. In any other state, choose Another state for a general list of subjects, a dated log, a reading list and a count of school days. Change it any time in Settings → Where you homeschool.

Only on your phone. There is no account and nothing is uploaded to us, so we can’t see your children’s names, your log or your photos. See the privacy policy.

Not yet. Each phone keeps its own records; there is no account and no syncing between devices. For now, keep the log on one phone.

Your iPhone’s own backup, to iCloud or to a computer, includes Homeschool Days, as it does your other apps. If you set up the new iPhone from that backup, the app’s data comes with it.

We’re sorry, we can’t: your data was only ever on your phone. To keep a copy of your own, export each child’s PDF or plain-text log from time to time and save it in Files.

Adding and changing entries, counting a day, and making a child’s portfolio PDF. It is $49.99 a year in the US for the whole family, any number of children, after a 7-day free trial; the App Store shows the price for your country.

The sample family and its PDF, reading your own log and deleting from it, adding children, and exporting your log as plain text. Your records are never held back.

Open the plan from Settings → Subscription and tap Restore purchases while signed in with the Apple Account you used to buy. If it still doesn’t unlock, email us.

On your iPhone, open Settings, tap your name, then Subscriptions → Homeschool Days. Cancel at least 24 hours before it renews. Apple’s guide: cancel a subscription from Apple. If the subscription ends, nothing you entered is deleted: you can still read your log and export it as plain text.

Purchases are made through Apple, so refunds are handled by Apple. Request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Not yet. Homeschool Days is for iPhone, and it also runs on iPad.