Founder & Developer
Made for UK forest schools
The record book that works where you do.
My latest build. The Forest School App runs a forest school session end to end - planning, bookings, registers, risk-benefit, observations and reports - all on your phone, in the woods, with no signal. Everything saves to your device the moment you tap, and uploads itself when you are back in range.
Bluebell Wood · Thursday group
Kept the stream play, added 1:1 supervision.
made the call on the day
Booking Tools Weren't Built For The Woods
You didn't train as a forest school leader to wrestle a paper register in the rain, or lose an observation to a soggy notebook. The booking apps badge themselves "forest school" but stop at payments and registers. The nursery systems own the indoor EYFS write-ups.
Nobody covers the bit that actually happens under the trees - the risk-benefit call, the dynamic site check, the tools and the fire, the learning in the mud. That's the whole of the Forest School App.
I've spent nearly two decades building software, and the hardest constraint here isn't a fancy feature - it's the woods themselves. No signal. Cold hands. A leader who has eight children, two adults, a campfire and a stream to think about, and roughly five seconds to record a decision before they're back to watching the group. Every design choice in the app bends around that reality.
Everything the trees need recording
Made For The Forest-School Layer The Others Ignore
Works Offline, Syncs Itself
Every register, risk note, observation and incident saves to the phone the instant you tap. Walk back into signal and it uploads on its own - no more "did that actually save?".
Dynamic Risk-Benefit In Seconds
Tap the hazard, tap what you did about it, keep the benefit. A five-second log that proves you made the call on the day - the thing inspectors actually look for.
Tools & Fire, All Accounted For
Knives issued and returned, fire lit and gone cold. The app flags anything left unreconciled before you leave site, so nothing sharp goes home in a rucksack.
Photos That Respect Consent
A child without photo consent simply can't be photographed - the camera won't open. The rule is built in and checked on both ends, not a box you might forget on a busy morning.
Learning That Grows With The Child
Quick voice or text observations against whole-child development - physical, social, emotional, cognitive, language - tied to each child's journey across the term.
Inspection-Ready In One Tap
Every session becomes a tidy PDF: register, ratios, weather decision, risks, incidents and reflections. Ready for the FSA, Ofsted, or a worried parent.
Simple, Honest Pricing
Practitioners are always free. 14-day free trial for leaders and settings - no card required.
Practitioners
A free account to manage your own profile and compliance - DBS, first aid, qualifications - shared to every setting you work for.
Solo Leaders
Unlimited children and sessions for the freelance or solo leader running their own forest school provision.
Team Settings
Multi-user access for a setting, with staff and volunteers brought into shared sessions and children.
Enterprise
Tailored pricing for organisations running forest school across multiple sites.
Under the Hood
The technical side of building software for a place with no signal.
Offline-First, Always
Built as a progressive web app that treats the device as the source of truth. Records write to local storage instantly; the network is an optimisation, not a dependency.
Sync & Conflict Handling
When signal returns, a background sync reconciles what changed on the device with the server. Timestamps and ownership rules decide who wins, so a flaky 4G bar never costs a record.
Consent As Code
Photo consent isn't a warning label - it's enforced. The capture flow checks consent before the camera will open, so safeguarding is a property of the system, not a habit.
.NET & Azure
The same stack I trust everywhere - .NET on the backend, hosted on Azure. Boring, reliable infrastructure so the interesting problems can live in the woods.
PDF On Demand
A whole session - register, ratios, weather decision, risks, incidents, reflections - rendered into a single clean PDF that an inspector or a parent can actually read.
Your Data Stays Yours
Practitioner profiles, children's records, observations - it's sensitive data about children, and it's treated that way. No selling it, no mining it, clear ownership throughout.
