Classroom apps for teachers, without learning to code
Borel lets teachers make iPhone apps for their own lessons by describing them in plain words. A quiz made from your own material, a reading log or a tool you use in class can be ready to try on a live iPhone in your browser the same day.
Teachers who want a tool shaped around their own lessons and subject.
Teachers who run clubs, trips or after-school activities and want one place for them.
Teachers of coding or design who want to show how an app comes together, step by step.
App ideas
Apps to make, with a prompt for each
Paste a prompt into Borel as it is, or change it to fit. Borel builds it while you watch.
A quiz from your own material
Paste a text and get practice questions in your words, not a textbook's.
Prompt
Make a quiz app for my class. I paste a text or my lesson notes and AI writes ten multiple-choice questions about it, with the right answer and a one-line explanation. Students answer one question at a time and see their score at the end.
Books, pages read and a short reflection, with a running total for the term.
Prompt
Make a reading log. I add each book with its title, author and cover photo, log pages read each day, and write a short reflection when I finish. Show a running total of pages this term and a shelf of finished books.
Pick a random student, run a timer and keep groups fair, all from your phone.
Prompt
Make a classroom helper for my iPhone. I keep a list of my classes and the students in each. It picks a random student without repeating until everyone has had a turn, splits the class into random groups of a size I choose, and has a big countdown timer.
Times, places on a map and a checklist for the day.
Prompt
Make a planner for a class trip. It shows the day's schedule with times, each stop on a map, a packing checklist and a list of emergency contacts. Use bold, friendly colours that are easy to read outdoors.
Every app is native Swift, written and built for you. These parts come with it, with nothing to set up.
Accounts
Sign-in with email and password when each student or colleague needs their own progress.
A database
A cloud database Borel runs, so scores, logs and lists stay put and follow a person between phones.
AI
Borel AI with no API key: questions from a text, feedback on an answer, a simpler way to say a hard idea.
A live iPhone preview
A live iPhone in your browser, free on every plan, to check every screen before a lesson.
Install on your iPhone
Borel Companion puts the app on your own iPhone, with Pro, so it is in your pocket during the lesson.
Publish to the App Store
To get it onto students' phones, Borel builds and uploads it to the App Store for you, with Pro.
Borel makes iPhone and iPad apps, not Android apps or websites. If children will use the app, check your school's rules and Apple's rules for apps for kids before you publish it.
Frequently asked questions
Through the App Store, yes. Publishing needs Borel Pro and a membership in Apple's Developer Program ($99 a year, paid to Apple), and Apple reviews the app first. Borel builds, signs and uploads it on its own Mac.
Yes. Describe it, and the app runs on a live iPhone in your browser, free on every plan. Change anything by saying what to change.
Yes. Borel AI is built into the app with no key to set up: it can turn a text you paste into questions, explanations or a summary.
You do. You can download its SwiftUI code at any time, and a published app sits under your own App Store Connect account.
Describe your app
Start from one of the prompts above, or say it in your own words. Trying it on the live iPhone is free.