Record an observation where it happens — in the hallway, at the lunch table, on the playground — and let it reach the rest of your team on its own. The phone app does the part of the job that a desk cannot.
The iPhone app is in TestFlight, Apple's testing programme, with a small group. It is not on the App Store yet, and we are not going to pretend otherwise with a greyed-out download button. If you would like to be in the next group of testers, tell us and we will add you.
Android is next, not available. The app is built with Expo, so most of it carries across — but we would rather name it as the next thing we do than list features you cannot have.
Ask to join the test groupNo wifi in the gym or on the bus? Record anyway. The app keeps its own copy of your caseload and sends what you recorded once you are back in range.
There is no way to take or attach a photo of a child. Pink Cow never asks for your camera or your photo library. Data, not images.
Your students are already on the phone, so the screen is there when you are, rather than after a page load you are standing in a corridor waiting for.
Turn on a Face ID or Touch ID lock so a phone left on a desk does not show a caseload. It is a setting, switched off until you switch it on.
A paraprofessional records on their phone and it lands in the same place as yours — with their name on it, so you know who was there.
Pick the student, pick the goal, tap the score. The whole screen is built around doing that while the moment is still happening.
One of these you can use. The other one is honest about being next.
Not available yet, and there is no waiting list to join or date to hold us to. The app is written with Expo, which builds for both, so the work is a port rather than a rewrite — and we will say it is here when it is here.
The full Pink Cow web app runs in any browser today, on a laptop or a phone, and it is where the reports, the calendar and the team settings live.
No. It is included with every Pink Cow subscription.
Yes. Recording works offline and syncs when you reconnect. The things that read across your whole caseload — reports in particular — need a connection.
Yes — they are one account and one database. Record on the phone and it is on the website; change a goal on the website and the phone catches up.
Not yet. The app sends no push notifications at all today. Pink Cow emails you a weekly summary instead, on the day you pick under Settings → Notifications.
The same rule applies everywhere, because it is enforced in the database rather than in each app: Pink Cow does not record observations, goals or IEP data about a child until a parent has said yes. Data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.3, and encrypted at rest on our servers. You can also turn on a Face ID lock on the phone itself.
Everything you record on the website is waiting on the phone the day you get the app — it is the same account either way.
Try it with SamA made-up student, so you can see it work before any real child is involved