The summer heat is still scorching, but we’re now working on some exciting Strew updates! Follow along for updates.
Here’s a recap of what was added to Strew in July 2026:
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👋 Slow Improvements
We built Strew to be as easy, and calm as possible; to leverage technology to make our lives easier as home educating parents.
But that doesn’t stop with any app update. We’re constantly working at making Strew easier, faster, and overall more pleasant to use. Sometimes this looks like small tweaks, other times it’s big features, or just leaving good stuff alone.
Here’s what we’ve improved this month:
- Support for Australian curriculum in Study Points
- Colour-code your childrens’ activities
- Use your own photos as kids avatars
- Improved fidelity of logos and avatars
- Better arranged sidebar designed to be easier to read
- Reduced warnings & notifications (less nagging)
💌 Easy Sharing
We’ve listened to many of you who are sharing Strew with your friends (through refer a friend) and made it even easier to share Strew.
You can now simply open Strew, tap ‘refer a friend’ then ‘Show QR code’. This lets your friend scan your share link with their phone camera:
Read more here: Strew Refer a friend
🐛 8 Bugs Fixed
We’ve had far less bug reports after last months bug-squashing flurry. That’s great news for you, and it means we can start prioritising the big updates we’re working on!
We still fixed a few:
- Bugs in image selection
- Bugs in subscription status
- Bug in Android app updates
- Bug in user login / registration on Android
- Bug for coupon code users
✍ What’s Coming Next?
We’ve officially started work on Strew Study Points 2.0 (which will probably be given a better name). We’ve taken all of the feedback you’ve given us and now have a plan.
We’ll be working on that over August/September, alongside a few other big improvements & additions:
- (Optional) Cloud Sync for multi-device
- Learning Suggestions / Reflections on recent focuses
- Bookshelf
If you’ve got something constructive to tell us about Strew Home ed, please do contact us.
Full Home Ed App Log (July 26):
v1.0.31 - 15/07/26
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- Added: Support for Australian curriculum in Study Points
- Added: Select a Colour for each Child (and everything in the app for that child will be that colour!)
- Added: You can now add your own photos as child avatars (if you want to!)
- Added: You can now show your friends a QR code to invite them to Strew, just tap 'Refer a Friend' from the sidebar
- Improved: Updated logo & splash screen images
- Improved: Firebase account prompt is now optional backup-login copy, with a 3-dismissal → 3-week cool-down
- Improved: Re-arranged the sidemenu header so family edit button is more obvious
- Fix: Stop nagging subscribed users who already have an email/account identity to "sign in"
v1.0.30 - 08/07/26
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- Fix: Bug where Image selection would sometimes not work
- Fix: Bug where subscription status was being dropped
- Fix: Conflict with ios simulator
- Fix: Bug where 'Getting ready to add activity' prompt didn't autoclose
- Fix: Coupon users were getting subscription prompts they shouldn't have
- Fix: Bug in updating app via Android
- Fix: Bug in user login/registration via Android
- Improved: Reduced warnings/notifications for new users
- Improved: Coupon users can now see expiry date
- Improved: New users now get better prompts when adding their first activity
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