Homeschool Planner with Hours, Grades & Transcript

A homeschool transcript lists the student's subjects, hours, grades, and a parent signature for each school year. Most families assemble it by hand from planners and spreadsheets at review time. Hearth builds it automatically from the hours and grades you logged during the year and exports a signed, parchment-style PDF you can email to your district or umbrella school.

Yes. Hearth requires no sign-up and no vendor cloud — your records are stored on your own iPhone and iPad. If you want a second device to see the same week, you can turn on private iCloud sync, which uses your personal iCloud database rather than a company server. Your child's records never sit behind someone else's login.

States that require attendance usually want a count of instruction days or hours per school year. Hearth records attendance with a single tap from the app, a home-screen widget, or Siri, so marking the day takes seconds. The attendance record rolls into the year-end transcript alongside hours and grades.

It depends on your state — some require a set number of instruction hours or days per year, while others ask for a portfolio instead. Check your state's homeschool statute or your umbrella school's requirements for the exact number. Hearth totals hours per subject and per year automatically, so whatever your target is, you always know where you stand.

A GPA converts each course grade to grade points and averages them, usually on a 4.0 scale. Doing this by hand across a year of subjects is tedious and easy to get wrong. Hearth keeps a running GPA as you enter grades, so the transcript's GPA is always current and consistent with the underlying grade records.

Portfolio states typically expect a log of instruction, samples of the student's work, attendance, and evidence of progress in each subject. Requirements vary, so confirm the list with your state office or evaluator. Hearth covers the record-keeping side: hours, attendance, assignments, and grades, all exportable as a signed PDF transcript and CSV files.

An umbrella school is an organization that enrolls homeschool students and handles state reporting on the family's behalf, usually in exchange for periodic records. Families in umbrella programs still need clean hour, attendance, and grade records to submit. Hearth keeps those records in one ledger and exports them in a format you can hand to your umbrella administrator.

Yes. Hearth imports any CSV file with a generic column-mapping step, so it works with a curriculum exported from a spreadsheet regardless of how the columns are named. You can also photograph a printed scope-and-sequence page and Hearth reads the lines into editable rows. Every imported row can be edited before it becomes part of your plan.

Yes. Hearth ships a home-screen widget and Siri App Intents, so you can say the phrase or tap the widget to log hours without opening the app. There is also a lesson timer with a lock-screen Live Activity for sessions you want to time as they happen. Every entry lands in the same ledger.

Each exported transcript carries a QR code linked to a cryptographic hash of the document, alongside the parent's signature line. Anyone reviewing the PDF can use it to confirm the file has not been altered since it was signed. It gives a homemade transcript a verifiable anchor without involving any third-party service.

It can, and it is entirely opt-in. By default everything stays on the device you are using. If you turn on iCloud sync, Hearth uses your private iCloud database so both devices see the same school year — no account with the developer, and nothing stored on a vendor server.

Yes. Hearth exports the transcript as a PDF and the underlying hours and grade records as CSV and JSON, all saved to the Files app where you can copy them anywhere. Your homeschool records are ordinary files you own, not entries in a service that could disappear.