Almost every day we’re improving Strew. Our goal is to serve the home educating parent by providing the best home ed tools going.
…and we’re just getting started! Follow along for updates.
This post covers what’s new in June 2026:
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👋 New Onboarding
When new users get started with Strew they used to see a simple wizard asking them for basic details and then they were pretty much thrown straight into the Strew feed.
To help new users find their way we now provide a few check-lists that help guide them through the app. Here’s hoping it helps parents get up to speed quicker.
We will continue to optimise this going forwards, but this was one of the big focuses in June.
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🐛 16 Bugs Fixed
This month has been heavy on the bug fixes as we’re working hard to make Strew much more stable and fast. You should now be seeing:
- Far fewer (or hopefully no) crashes
- Faster navigation
- Fixed user registration
- Better loading indicators
🔧 Other Improvements
This month we focused mostly on stability within Strew, (we’re still working on it in July). A chunk of the development went towards making it easier to get started, with lots of little tweaks alongside that:
- Better integration with native controls (e.g. Android back button now works in app, swipe in iOS)
- Faster database access (faster app)
- Better colours for accessibility
- Smarter in-app lowkey notifications.
There were a handful of other small improvements which should also help speed up the app.
What’s Coming Next?
So much goodness! We’ve still got a few more fixes in the coming weeks which should really bring Strew into a stable robust place for you. Beyond that we’ll start work on some of the aspects we asked you about in the survey.
It will likely be some of the following, though we’re still collating the feedback:
- (Optional) Cloud Sync for multi-device
- Improvements on the Study Points system
- Recurring activities
- 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 (June 26):
v1.0.29 - 29/06/26
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- Fix: When tapping 'update' in prompt this would crash the app for some users
- Fix: Android users who hit the native back button now get sent to feed rather than app closing
- Fix: Android users sometimes hit a bug in the home ed activity description editor where keystrokes broke things
- Fix: Coupon using users now should not get paywalls inappropriately
- Fix: Bug in saving activities where if user ducked out of feature while saving, app would crash
- Fix: Prevent TypeError from Superwall SDK type cast during subscription status checks
- Fix: Better catching of offline mode
- Fix: Bug where welcome tour screen would not show menu
- Fix: Sporadic issue where user registration would crash the app
- Fix: Further launch queue protection for fresh installs to avoid launch crashes
- Improved: Added extra attributes to paywall user & made sure identify() was called correctly in stack
v1.0.28 - 22/06/26
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- Fix: Bug with coupon code home ed report generation
- Fix: Bug with onboarding paywall
v1.0.27 - 18/06/26
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- Added: 'AI Readiness' indicator to description editor
- Improved: Onboarding is now streamlined & easier for new users
- Improved: Database loading speeds
- Improved: Made first home ed report free!
- Improved: Tidied up logo images
- Fix: Database loading errors
- Fix: Superwall multi-loading issue
v1.0.26 - 01/06/26
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- Added: Meta data storage for activities
- Added: Signposting to help early users (e.g. reports after first activites added)
- Added: Loading pages blocked by paywalls now show more elegant 'loading' dialog
- Improved: Home Ed News/Notifications is now version-aware
- Improved: In-app subscription tracking is now more granular
- Improved: Better AI insights failure management
- Improved: Books added via barcode scanner now track as books (ahead of reading list feature)
- Improved: UI colour elements on filter screen better accessibility
- Improved: Significant performance improvement for onboarding wizard
- Fix: Better user account management (API Account links)
- Fix: Bug where some users sometimes had app crashes on activity description copy and paste
- Fix: Bug where user registration could sometimes crash the Strew app
- Fix: Bug where 'add activity' button was showing on onboarding wizard
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