Anchor & Almanac — questions, fixes, and how things work.
Email: info@nextfrontierbuilders.com
Replies usually within a day. Be specific about what you tried and what happened — screenshots help.
Onboarding walks you through the family name, doctrinal tradition, and your first kid. After that, the Curriculum tab is the second stop — bring in your first curriculum by photographing the table of contents page (the AI parses it) or building from scratch. Assign it to one or more kids and you'll see lessons start showing up on Today.
Kids tab → tap the + button.
Yes. Assign the same curriculum to both. Each kid gets their own progress tracking.
Settings → Subscription → Subscribe. Pick monthly ($12.99) or annual ($99). You get 14 days free; cancel anytime before then in iOS Settings → Your Apple ID → Subscriptions.
iOS Settings → Your Apple ID → Subscriptions → Anchor & Almanac → Cancel Subscription. We don't see your card or have a "delete account" — uninstalling the app removes everything locally.
Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com. We can't issue them ourselves.
Yes. Both subscription tiers are family-shareable through Apple's standard Family Sharing.
That's a development-only message that shouldn't appear in App Store builds. If you see it, email us — something's wrong with that build.
It happens. The AI is supplemental, not a replacement for parent involvement. Verify anything important before treating it as fact. If you find a consistent pattern of bad answers in one area, email us — we can tune the prompts.
You set it in Settings → Worldview. The AI tutor, devotional generator, and catechism coach all read that setting and frame their answers accordingly.
No. Each request goes through our server to Anthropic, gets a reply, and is not stored. See Privacy Policy for the full story.
Try a clearer, well-lit, flat shot of just the table-of-contents page. After the AI parses, you can edit every lesson before saving — fix typos there and save.
Yes. Curriculum → Add → pick PDF from Files. Works the same way (extract text, AI parses, you review and save).
It's SM-2 (spaced repetition). Mark a card "Good" or "Easy" and the next review pushes out further. Mark "Again" and it comes back tomorrow. Mark "Hard" and the interval shrinks. The app handles the timing for you.
Tap the speaker icon in the Memory work toolbar. First time you enable it, iOS may ask for permission. If audio is off, iOS Settings → Anchor & Almanac → make sure Microphone and Speech Recognition are allowed (audio prompts don't need them, but the same permissions panel is where you'd see if Apple disabled audio for the app).
Plan tab or Today tab → Brain dump → tap "Talk it out" button. First time, you'll get a microphone permission prompt and a speech recognition permission prompt. Tap Allow on both. After that, single tap starts recording, single tap stops.
Be more specific. Mention dates ("Friday", "March 15", "tomorrow"), kid names, and what action you'd take ("schedule field trip" not just "field trip"). The AI is conservative on purpose; it'd rather extract nothing than fabricate items.
The reports are for your own records and to make portfolio review easier. Check your state's specific requirements for what to file with the local education agency. We can't legally guarantee state compliance.
From the "Time spent" field you optionally fill in on each completed lesson. If you never fill it in, the report shows lesson counts but no hours.
Force-quit (swipe up and flick away), reopen. If it happens repeatedly, email us with: which screen you were on, what you tapped, and your iOS version.
SwiftData generally migrates automatically; if you see this email immediately. Your data is local — if backed up via iCloud Backup, Apple can sometimes restore it.
Uninstall the app. All local data goes with it. No server records exist to delete.