YOUR CHILD'S EVENTS, NOT THE WHOLE SCHOOL'S
Your school already wrote the dates. Why are you typing them again?
Share the school newsletter or message with Symplano. It pulls out the dates, sorts them by child and sends anything uncertain to review. You spend less time hunting and typing, and more time checking.
Less hunting. Less copying. Less typing. More checking.
14 days free, then £6.99 a month. Android only for now.
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School admin comes in pieces. The job of joining it up still lands with you.
One date is in an email. Another is buried in a newsletter. A change appears in the class message.
None of it is difficult on its own. The work is reading it, finding what matters, working out who it applies to, then typing it somewhere else.
That is the admin Symplano is built to reduce.
You do not need another place to type school dates. You need less typing.
A school newsletter goes in. The useful dates come out.
Share a newsletter or school message. Symplano extracts the dates, sorts them by child and shows you anything it is not confident about.
Think of it like a really organised friend who turns a long school message into the dates you need to check.
Photo Day Wednesday. Full uniform.
Swimming Tuesday at 1:30.
Football trials Thursday. Collection at 4:30.
A normal calendar starts after you've done the hard part.
Calendars are good at keeping dates once you've put them in.
School admin starts earlier. Open the newsletter. Find the useful bits. Work out which child they apply to. Create the event. Type the details. Repeat.
Symplano does that first pass for you.
You check what landed and review anything Symplano could not confidently assign.
For school messages, the shift is simple: less typing, more checking.
Keeping up with my niece and nephew's endless activities has become a full-time job in itself, and this app has been a real lifesaver, it keeps me on top of everything and frees me up mentally. It's like having a PA for a fraction of the cost.
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How it works
1. See the school message
Email, newsletter or class message.
2. Share it with Symplano
Use the normal share flow on your phone.
3. Symplano does the first pass
It extracts the dates and sorts them by child.
4. Check what landed
Anything it is not confident about goes to review.
AI can make mistakes. Important dates should still be checked against the school's original message.
Built by a parent who was already using calendars.
I did not need another place to put dates. The problem was everything before the calendar: reading school messages, finding what mattered, working out who it applied to and typing it all in.
Symplano came from wanting less school admin in my head, not another calendar to maintain.
What to wear
Whether today is uniform, non-uniform or a kit day, and anything the school asked for. Set the regular days once and the rest arrives on its own. No more being the only one who got it wrong.
What to bring
Today's bag, packed, per child, ticked off as you go. You stop remembering it and start just checking it.
What is on
See today's events and what is coming next, organised around your children's profiles. The screen changes as the day does, so the morning shows what they are wearing and the evening shows what tomorrow needs.
However it reaches you, send it here
School news turns up everywhere. An email, a PDF newsletter, a page on the school website, something in the class group chat. Share it straight to Symplano. It lifts out the dates. Whatever one parent picks up, the other parent, or whoever is doing pick-up, gets it too. Photos of paper letters are coming soon.
AI does the first pass. You stay in control.
Symplano uses AI to pull useful dates from the school information you choose to share. AI can make mistakes, so important dates should still be checked against the school's original message.
If Symplano is not confident which child an event belongs to, it sends it to review instead of pretending to be certain.
Privacy is part of the product, not just the policy page.
We do not ask for your inbox
Symplano does not need access to your whole inbox. You choose the school message or newsletter you send.
Some school information is personal. Some is about money. Some is not a date at all. You decide what reaches Symplano.
The details you save about your children, their names, schools and year groups, are not shared with the AI. Matching an event to a child happens separately, on our servers.
You choose what to share
Symplano does not need access to your whole inbox. You choose the school message or newsletter you send.
Extra protection on Android
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Symplano also adds application-level encryption on Android using a key protected by the device Keystore.
Your family data is not for sale
Symplano does not sell your data.
Child matching stays separate
The details you save about your children, their names, schools and year groups, are not shared with the AI. Matching an event to a child happens separately, on our servers.
If it saves you the admin, keep it.
Try Symplano free for 14 days.
After that it is £6.99 a month, and the first 100 people to create a Symplano account keep a founders rate of £4.99 a month for as long as their subscription stays active.
Stop subscribing? Your existing family calendar is still yours. Your calendar, your children, your events: all still there, still viewable, still editable. You are not locked out of your own family's schedule.
Ready to simplify family life?
Turn school updates into a calendar that keeps itself up to date.
14 days free, then £6.99 a month. Android only for now.
Built with busy parents in mind
You choose what to share
No whole-inbox connection.
Uncertainty is visible
If Symplano is not confident, it sends the item to review.
Secure & Private
Your data is encrypted and secure
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The next school newsletter is coming anyway.
You can read it, pull out the dates and type them into your calendar. Or share it with Symplano and check what landed.
14 days free, then £6.99 a month. Android only for now.
On iPhone?
Join the iOS waitlist.
What is Symplano?
Symplano is a UK family organiser app for parents of school-aged children. It shows what each child needs to wear, what they need to bring and what is on today, and it takes school messages you send it and pulls out the dates, so the part about your own child reaches you. It is on Android.
How do I stop forgetting non-uniform days?
Set the day once in Symplano and it tells you every morning whether today is uniform, non-uniform or a kit day, before you leave the house. Non-uniform days mentioned in a newsletter get picked up when you send the newsletter in.
Does Symplano only work with email?
No. An email, a PDF newsletter, a page from the school website, or something from the class group chat. Share it to Symplano. Photos of paper letters are coming soon.
Does Symplano read my email inbox?
No. Symplano does not connect to your inbox and does not ask you to set up forwarding. You send it one thing at a time, so it only ever sees what you choose to give it. Everything else from school, including anything personal or about money, stays private to you.
Is there an app that keeps track of school letters and newsletters?
Yes. Symplano turns school messages you send it into dated events and shows each parent the part about their own child, so you are not reading the whole school's news to find your child's two lines.
How does Symplano know which events belong to which child?
You set up each child with their school and year group, and Symplano matches events to them from what the message says. The details you save about your children, their names, schools and year groups, are not shared with the AI. Matching an event to a child happens separately, on our servers.
How much does Symplano cost?
Symplano is free for 14 days. After that it is £6.99 a month. The first 100 people to create a Symplano account keep a founders rate of £4.99 per month for as long as their subscription stays active. The founders rate is counted by order of account creation and closes once 100 accounts have been created. It applies to the monthly plan only and is personal to the account holder.
Why not just use Google Calendar or Apple Calendar?
Normal calendars are useful places to keep events. Symplano is aimed at the work before that: extracting dates from school information you choose to share, sorting them by child and showing uncertain items for review.
Can Symplano make mistakes?
Yes. AI-assisted extraction can make mistakes. Important dates should still be checked against the school's original communication. If Symplano is not confident which child an event belongs to, it sends it to review.
Is Symplano on iPhone?
Symplano is currently available on Android. iPhone users can join the iOS waitlist.