For homeschoolers
Built with the multi-kid, multi-grade kitchen table in mind.
One device on the counter. Multi-child profiles. The pencil stays in your child's hand. The camera watches the worksheet you printed, not a tablet. Pre-K through 8th grade. Curriculum-agnostic — if you're already running Singapore, Saxon, BJU, Math-U-See, RightStart, Beast, or just printables, Koda fits inside what you're using.
Six things that matter at the homeschool table.
- Multi-kid, multi-grade
One device, multi-child profiles. Each kid has their own adventure track, their own avatar, their own accommodations. Face recognition routes who's at the desk so the right session loads automatically.
- Paper-first by design
Worksheets you printed, manipulatives you already own, a real pencil. The overhead camera watches the work; nothing replaces the page. Curriculum-agnostic — if your child is using BJU, Saxon, Singapore, Math-U-See, RightStart, Beast, or printables off the internet, Koda watches whichever sheet is in front of them.
- No internet required
After setup, sessions don't need a connection. Tutoring runs locally on the device in your home. Useful in rural areas, on the road, on a kitchen table that's not always near a router.
- Pre-K through 8th grade
Math is the deepest catalog at launch (188 short explainer videos for grades 2-5, mapped to Common Core). Pre-K, 1st, and 6th-8th grade math expand over time. Reading comprehension, spelling, science, and PE focus warmups round out every grade.
- Built for the kid most ed-tech treats as an edge case
ADHD, dyscalculia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, autism — and twice-exceptional kids who toggle more than one. Set the support flag at enrollment and Koda picks safe defaults — different combo per flag. Wired today: dyslexia font, animation speed, focus-chunk length, per-profile volume. (Animations-off, celebration-intensity, learning-mode-by-default, voice answers for dysgraphia — these dial in the parent portal at launch; their session-runtime hookup arrives in software updates.) First-class settings, not an add-on. (PE focus warmups — short executive-function exercises — ship as a separate subject for everyone.)
- On-device privacy
Camera frames never leave the home. No cloud LLM at runtime. Profiles, photos, voice settings, and progress live on the device — and delete cascades from a single switch. Especially important if your homeschool reasons include keeping your child's data out of someone else's database.
Things we won't pretend Koda is.
- Replace you
Reading aloud, the morning meeting, the Socratic conversation about the book — those are yours. Koda is the regular practice partner for the time when you can't sit at the kitchen table for the full session.
- Replace the co-op or the field trip
The social-and-physical part of homeschool — co-op, library day, museum trips, hikes — is doing work that no machine can do. Koda fills the at-home academic gaps in between.
- Score a state-mandated assessment
If your state requires standardized testing, Koda's exam mode and per-child report (downloadable from the parent portal) are useful prep, but they're not the test. We don't try to be the proctor.
- Pick your curriculum for you
We don't sell a curriculum. We watch yours. If you've already decided on Singapore, Saxon, or anything else, Koda fits inside whatever you're using.
Buy the bundle, or run it on your own Mac.
The Koda bundle is a plug-and-go device with the cameras and brackets. If you've already got a recent Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or newer, 16+ GB RAM) and a couple of USB webcams, Koda runs there too — same software, same on-device privacy, no second hardware purchase. Pick whichever path has lower friction at your kitchen table.
If you're already deep into the question of how kids learn.
- 8 min · pedagogyPaper-first: why our tutor watches a worksheet instead of a screen
- 7 min · for parentsWhat pre-K math actually looks like (and what to do at the kitchen table tonight)
- 7 min · designWhy we don't use streaks