On every device

Befundo is a website first. Sign in at the same address on a computer, a tablet or a phone and everything is there; nothing is missing because you are on a small screen, and nothing needs installing.

There is an app for iPhone — which is also the iPad and iPhone Duo app — and one for Android. The Android app is on Google Play; the iPhone and iPad app is coming to the App Store. The pictures below are of the apps as they are.

The Android app needs Android 8 or later; the iPhone and iPad app will need iOS 18 or later.

Every device shows your day, your children, your classes, messages, notifications, to-dos and the diary, and joins a live class. A few things stay on a computer on purpose: choosing and paying for a plan, and setting a class up — its description, its price and the day and time it repeats. The FAQ has the longer answer.

Choose under Account → Language on a computer, or Me → Language in the app. On Android the app switches straight away. On an iPhone or iPad the app's menus follow Settings → Apps → Befundo → Language, a row iOS shows only once the phone has more than one language under Settings → General → Language & Region. Open Settings under Me → Language takes you there. The apps speak Spanish and French from version 0.1.0 (1086).

The day in one place: what is still to do, today's classes and routines, the week ahead and a calendar colored by person. The menu on the left is the only one of these screens with a sidebar you can always see, and Ask Befundo sits in the corner of every page.

Open a class and its pages are down the left: Board for notices and permission slips, Course for what the class covers and how far it has got, Work for anything set, and Meetings for each session — including what was covered and the teacher's note afterwards. These pictures are the teacher's view; a family sees the same pages without the controls.

On a phone the menu folds behind the ☰ button and a class's pages become tabs along the top. Adding Befundo to your home screen from the browser's share menu makes it open like an app.

The dashboard opens on what is still to do today, then today and this week, then your children. Everything that is not one of the five tabs — your classes, the diary, the journal, invitations, your profile — is under Me.

A class has its own bar at the bottom: Board, Messages, Work, Course, and More for Meetings, Members, Activity and Settings. Course shows the syllabus with what has been covered ticked; Read the material opens the lessons for the topics the class has reached.

It is the same app as the iPhone's, not a separate download, but on a wide screen it draws a sidebar like the website's: your children, your business and your classes are listed down the left, and a class's pages sit in a column beside what you are reading. Turn it to portrait or use it in Split View and, when it gets narrow, it becomes the iPhone layout.

In a live class a teacher can draw on the shared whiteboard freehand, in six colors, and the room sees it as it is drawn. The iPad is where that is worth doing; a computer has the fuller toolbox of shapes, text and arrows.

iPhone Duo runs the same app. Folded, the outer display is a phone: the tabs sit in a strip down the side, beside the camera, and a class keeps its bar at the bottom.

Unfolded, the inner display is wide enough for the sidebar, in either orientation: your children, your business and your classes down the left. A class keeps its own bar at the bottom, because the column beside the sidebar is narrower than an iPad's.

Open or close it, or turn it, and you stay in the same part of the app — the same class, and a live class stays connected. A screen you had opened further inside that page can close as the layout changes; the page itself does not.

Dashboard, Tasks, Messages, Notifications and Me along the bottom, and a class opens on its Board with Messages, Work, Course and More beside it — the iPhone's layout, in Android's own controls. Your classes are under Me → All classes.

There is no tablet layout: an Android tablet or foldable shows the phone layout, larger. And the whiteboard in a live class is for watching on Android — a teacher draws from a computer or the iPhone and iPad app.

In either app the version number is under Me → Profile, at the bottom. On the web, say which browser. Then use Help when signed in, or email the address on the support page.