For homeschool families
HearthLight is a homeschool logbook for your iPhone. Log hours, subjects, and reading in about 20 seconds a day — in the carpool line, at the kitchen table, wherever. At year end, it turns your logs into a college-ready transcript, course descriptions, and your state's attendance and compliance reports.
sample of the format — generated from your daily logs
| Course · Grade 9 | Credits | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| English I — American Literature | 1.0 | A |
| Algebra I | 1.0 | A− |
| Biology with Lab | 1.0 | B+ |
| Attendance | 182 days logged | |
How it works
The end-of-year scramble — the shoebox of papers, the transcript panic, the weekend lost to reconstructing what you did in October — happens because record-keeping is a year-end project. HearthLight makes it a daily habit so small you barely notice it.
Hours, subjects, books read. Two taps and a line of text. Works fully offline — logs sync when you're back in signal, so rural days count too.
Attendance days, hours per subject, credit progress, and reading lists accumulate in the background. No spreadsheets to maintain.
Generate a transcript in the standard format colleges expect, course descriptions drafted from what you actually logged, and your state's attendance and compliance reports.
The part that matters
You're keeping the legal and academic record of your child's education. That's not something to trust to an app that could disappear — so here's exactly how HearthLight is built to be trusted.
Every transcript, report, and raw log exports to PDF and spreadsheet whenever you want. If HearthLight vanished tomorrow, you'd still hold every record — nothing is locked inside the app.
Your records live on your iPhone with backup — not on a server you can't reach. No internet required to log or to read your own history.
Transcripts follow the conventional layout admissions offices see from homeschool applicants: courses, credits, grades, GPA, attendance. Familiar on arrival, not a novelty document.
Attendance and hour reports are generated to match your state's homeschool reporting requirements, so filing season is a print job, not a research project.
The honest fine print: no app can guarantee that a college or state official will accept any document — and we won't pretend otherwise. What we promise is simpler: your records are complete, professionally formatted, and always in your hands. HearthLight is independent — not affiliated with or endorsed by any state, college, or homeschool organization.
The math
What established homeschool record-keeping services typically charge per year.
Full logbook, transcript, course descriptions, and state reports. One price, whole family.
That's about $25 back in the curriculum budget every year — and the bigger number isn't money. A transcript rebuilt from memory costs a weekend, every year, at the moment you can least spare one. Twenty seconds a day costs you about two hours a school year, total.
Coming soon
HearthLight is in development now. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when it's ready — and you'll help us decide what to build first.
Launch price: $59.99/year — you'll confirm before ever paying anything.
One email when we launch, occasional progress notes. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.