Why we built this
Studying alone is easy to quit. Studying where someone will notice isn't.
This started as a tool for one small group working toward a single exam date, because the three things that kept derailing us weren't things another prep book could fix.
What kept going wrong
The material was never the hard part
Nobody fails IELTS because the Cambridge books are unavailable. They fail because week 3 is boring, week 6 is busy, and nothing bad happens on the day you skip. Twelve weeks is long enough for motivation alone to run out — every single time.
A score with no diagnosis teaches you nothing
"Reading 6.5" is not feedback. It doesn't tell you that eleven of your losses were you running out of time on passage 3, or that you keep falling for the same distractor in matching-headings questions. Without that, you practise more of what you're already good at.
Group prep dies in the group chat
Studying with friends is genuinely the best accelerant available — right up until the coordination lives in a chat thread. Scores get posted, buried by lunchtime, and never compared. Two weeks later nobody knows who's ahead, behind, or quietly stopped.
So four decisions got made early
Every feature in the app traces back to one of these. When something didn't, it didn't get built.
Visibility over willpower
The whole design assumes willpower runs out. Streaks, a shared board of who logged today, and everyone's last mock score sitting next to yours — not to shame anyone, just so a skipped day is noticed by someone other than you.
Scoring you can check yourself
Listening and Academic Reading are converted with the raw-score-to-band tables published in the Cambridge practice-test books, and we show you those tables on the home page so you can check the number rather than trust it. Writing and Speaking are estimates and we label them as such — the real band boundaries are set per test version and aren't published by anyone.
A day-by-day plan, not a syllabus
A 12-week syllabus is a document you read once. The same 12 weeks as a checklist for today — four tasks, real time estimates, real resources — is something you can actually act on before breakfast.
Everyone owns their own profile
One person creates the group and gets an access code. Everyone else signs up themselves and fills in their own name, role, and starting bands. Nobody types anyone else's details, and progress follows each person to any device they log in on.
The bet the whole thing makes
Fifteen tracked minutes a day beats three forgotten hours a week.
Fifteen minutes you actually log, every day, compounds over 12 weeks into the 1.5–2.0 band movement people are looking for. Three hours the weekend before the exam does not. Everything in the app optimises for the small daily thing being impossible to forget and slightly awkward to skip.
And what it deliberately isn't
Worth knowing before you sign your friends up for 12 weeks of it.
It doesn't grade your Writing or Speaking
There's no automated examiner here, because an automated Band 7 you can't trust is worse than an honest gap. What it does give you is the official rubric, a peer-review structure for your Saturday session, and somewhere to record the feedback a real person gave you.
It isn't a question bank
You still practise on real Cambridge IELTS material (17 through 21). The mock schedule maps to actual books and tests rather than inventing questions of unknown difficulty — the scores you log mean something because the material is the real thing.
It isn't a course or a tutor
It's the system around one. If you have a tutor, this is where their feedback lands and gets tracked between sessions. If you don't, it's the structure that stops 12 weeks from evaporating.
It's free while we finish building it
Everything is free until September 17, 2026, and the roadmap is public — the blog lists what's shipped and what's still coming, honestly labelled.