Planning
A week built from 260 evidence-backed activities across twelve domains, a language budget, classes, trips, and festivals. Auto-plan proposes next week from what your child actually did.
For families raising a child at home, ages 2 to 6
Run the day. Keep the year.
Yearkeep takes the planning, the prepping, and the tracking of your child’s early years out of your head and into one shared plan. Learning, play, movement, languages, and life outside the home, on one week, run by every adult who helps, and recorded as growth instead of scores.
Create your familySee how it works
Free during early access. The child never needs an account.
What it takes off your plate
Planning, prepping, and tracking, done once a week instead of all day
Raising a child on purpose means holding a plan in your head, setting things out every morning, and remembering what happened. Yearkeep carries those three loads so the adults can be present.
Three reasons families start
Same product. Different first week.
Learning at home
A shelf, not a worksheet
Invitations from a library of 260 activities with the adult’s move written out. Rotate the shelf on Sunday. Document instead of test. Montessori, Reggio, unschooling, or simply home.
Keeping a language alive
Hours, not flashcards
Set a budget for each language. Yearkeep counts the hours each adult gives and shows you the gap before the week starts.
It takes a village
Everyone who helps, on one plan
Grandparents, relatives, a partner, a friend, a helper. Each opens Today in their own language, runs a block, and taps Done. Everyone sees the growth.
One loop, every week
Plan the week. Run the day from Today. Capture what happened. Review on Sunday. Keep what matters.
Run the day
Whoever is on duty sees exactly what to do next
Today shows the current block, who owns it, which language the child should hear, and a two-line script for the adult. Materials are listed. Prompt cards are one tap away. Nobody has to ask what the plan was.
If the haze index passes 100 or the heat is too much, the outdoor block becomes an indoor movement plan, and the adult on duty is told why.
How Today works
Capture
Three taps. No report writing.
Photo, she said, block done, mood, sleep, outdoor minutes, concern. Each is one to three taps. Quotes keep their language. Photos are tagged with the block automatically.
It works without signal. Entries queue on the phone and send later. Nothing is lost.
What you can capture
Plan
A week that adapts to your child
The week view shows every block by day, with classes, playdates, and trips on the same grid. The language forecast bar turns amber before the week starts if a language is short of its target.
Auto-plan proposes two or three tray swaps with a reason: a tray ignored for two weeks, a domain that got twelve minutes, an interest that showed up in four quotes. You accept or edit. Every block, script, and rotation rule is yours to change.
Planning a week
Review
Sunday takes twenty minutes
The weekly review opens with the dashboard and three observations written from the logs. You decide one change, accept next week’s invitations, and write a line of thanks to the adults who helped. The summary goes to every adult in their language.
Daily, weekly, monthly, birthday
Keep
The yearbook is the point
Every photo, quote, project panel, ladder move, and review lands in the portfolio. Monthly pages build themselves. At each birthday you export a yearbook as a PDF.
Grandparents and relatives get a weekly highlight link in their language. They do not need an account.
Portfolio and yearbook
Languages
A language survives on hours, not lessons
Set a target share for each language by age. Assign each adult a language. Every logged block and quote counts toward the week. When the language with no street outside the home falls short, Yearkeep says so, and asks the adults to talk more, not to buy an app for the child.
The input budget, explainedThe stance
Play is the work. Documentation is the assessment.
Yearkeep encodes an evidence-backed early-years approach so that several adults with different languages, skills, and schedules can run it every day without reading a textbook. Every default can be changed; the evidence behind it is cited.
Prepared environment
A shelf with eight trays beats a pile of worksheets. Rotate on Sunday.
Executive function first
Plan-Do-Review, pretend play, waiting, movement. Subjects are the vehicle.
Describe, do not evaluate
No “clever”. No stickers. Mastery ladders, not praise.
Documentation, not tests
Photos, quotes, and reviews are the record. There are no child scores.
It takes a village
Built for everyone who shows up
A grandmother who does Tuesday afternoons. An uncle on a weekly video call. A partner who has the bedtime book. A helper who has the mornings. Each gets their own login, in their own language, with the smallest role that works: large type, one word per button, three taps to log, offline.
Nobody is graded. Parents thank, the app does not nag, and every adult can see the child grow through the highlights they helped make.
How the family joins in
Privacy
A family tenant. No feed. No ads.
Isolated by design
Each family is a tenant enforced in the database, not just in the app.
Stored in one region
Photos and recordings live in Singapore, never copied elsewhere. An EU region exists for families who need it; ask before you set up.
Export and delete
Take everything as JSON, CSV, and PDF. Delete with a grace period you can cancel.
AI with a leash
The coach cites the entries it used, never diagnoses, and each feature has its own off switch. Every call is logged.
The three of us finally run the same morning. Her grandparents see the week. She still has Dhivehi. We did not buy another flashcard box.
FAQ
Is Yearkeep an app for my child?
No. The child does not have an account and does not use a screen. Yearkeep is for the adults who raise the child: parents first, and then grandparents, relatives, partners, friends, and anyone else who takes part.
Is this home schooling?
It is home-schooling and unschooling inspired for the years before school, and it works alongside a preschool or a kindergarten. The plan covers the whole child: play, movement, language, practical life, reading, projects, outdoors, and the people and places in the child’s week. There are no lessons and no worksheets.
Do we need other adults to use it?
No. One parent can plan, run, and review alone, and two parents are already a village. The plan still has to leave one person’s head. Every extra adult you invite adds hours, a language, and a pair of eyes that can see the growth.
Do we have to follow Montessori?
No. The library draws on Montessori environments, Reggio documentation, HighScope Plan-Do-Review, Tools of the Mind, and dialogic reading. You use the invitations you like, add your own, and change any default. Nothing is a franchise or a badge.
Which languages does it support?
The interface comes in 19 languages, including Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, Dhivehi, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Urdu, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and English. The language plan today covers Dhivehi, English, Malay, Indonesian, and Mandarin; more plan languages are on the roadmap.
Is our data private?
Yes. Each family is an isolated tenant. There is no public feed, no ads, and no third-party analytics on child content. You can export everything and delete the family with a grace period.
What does it cost?
It is free during early access. The planned family plan is one price with every adult included, and you will be told 30 days before billing starts. See the pricing page.
Create the family. Invite the people who help. Run one Sunday.
Setup takes about thirty minutes: child, languages, schedule, first eight trays, invites. The first Sunday review is where it pays back.