Designed Learning Co. See the tools

Software for schools, built by a teacher.

Practical tools for teachers and school leaders. They run on the computer you already have, work offline, and are paid for once, not every year.

It has to work offline.

Reliable access shouldn’t depend on an internet connection. Our apps are designed to work offline, so you can keep working without a connection while your student data stays on your device.

You buy it. You own it.

One payment, with no renewals or per-user fees. We believe teachers and schools shouldn’t have to manage another ongoing subscription just to access a tool they rely on throughout the year.

Built around real school needs.

Every tool we create starts with a genuine challenge from a real school environment. We test our products against the demands of a busy school week, because if a tool cannot make a teacher’s or school leader’s work easier when it matters most, it is not ready to ship.

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Available now · $49 once

Wordwave

Turn a song, story or your own recording into an engaging word-by-word reading video. Simply tap the space bar in time with the audio, and each word is highlighted as it is read.

  • 01Built for shared reading, decodables, sight words and EAL/D
  • 02Exports MP4 for the board, or transparent ProRes for editing
  • 03Runs offline, with no account and nothing uploaded
See what it does → Try it free
The Wordwave window: a rhyme on the left, a preview with one word highlighted, and the audio waveform underneath with every word pinned to it.
New · free to try · $49 once

Principal Planner

A planning app for principals, deputies, heads of department and anyone who plans a school’s year, in any Australian school. Each event is mapped backwards from its date, so you can see what needs to be started, prepared or completed each week.

  • 01Term dates and week numbers: built in for Queensland state schools, two-minute setup anywhere else
  • 02Event templates: enter the date, and every task is scheduled in the weeks before it
  • 03Runs offline, with no account
See what it does → Try it free
The Principal Planner dashboard for Week 3 of Term 4, with the days of the week and the Principal's Radar listing what needs attention.

What’s next

Built properly, one tool at a time.

We focus on finishing each tool properly before moving on to the next. No half-finished features and no subscription just to access a roadmap. Once you own a tool, we keep improving it.

Being built now

Wordwave that listens for itself

Wordwave will automatically detect the timing of the words in your audio, making the process faster and easier. Tapping along will simply let you fine-tune the timing when needed. Planned as a free update for everyone who already owns Wordwave.

After that

More tools for schools

We’re always looking for the next school task we can make simpler. Like Wordwave and Principal Planner, every new tool starts with a real problem that takes teachers and school leaders far too much time. Have a task you think we could improve? Tell us.

About

Built by an Australian teacher, for the job as it actually is.

Designed Learning Co. is a small independent studio run by a practising Australian secondary teacher. Every tool starts as something a real school needed on a real Tuesday, and gets built in the evenings by someone who knows what the rest of that Tuesday looks like.

That is the whole method, and it is the reason these tools behave the way teachers expect rather than the way software companies expect. No accounts, no onboarding emails, no seat licences to reconcile in August.

The studio stays deliberately small. You are buying a finished tool from someone who uses it every week, not a subscription to a roadmap.

OfflineNothing we make needs a network connection, so student work never leaves the room it was made in.
Bought onceOne payment for the version you buy, and it keeps working. No renewals, no per-user fees.
Built by a teacherMade by someone who works in a school, not a software company guessing what schools need.

Questions, or a school that needs several copies?

Site licences, purchase orders and pre-sale questions all go to the same place, and get a real answer from the person who built the thing.

hello@designedlearningco.au