As 2026 progresses on and we’re all starting to phase into chillier, quieter months, let’s see what’s new in Strew for September!
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📚 New Feature: Reading Log / Bookshelf
Strew already had a fairly good children’s book barcode scanner, but several of you kept asking for a proper kids bookshelf.
While we’re busy working on super important stuff like our new evolution of Study Points (into a more evidence-focused learning platform), we thought we’d take a quick break and make something more fun!
Enter, Reading Logs for kids:
As of version 1.0.34 (released 1st October 2026) you can now find all of the books you’ve scanned in your child’s very own digital bookshelf!
Simply open the side menu and select ‘Bookshelf’. From there you can see books you’ve already scanned, scan and add more, and manage the ‘read state’ for each book.
Kids can favourite books too, so you can build up a bookshelf of just their favourite books!
Later we’ll be adding reading analysis & suggestions, but for now it’s just a nice place to be in Strew (with pets!)
Read more about Strew’s Reading Log for Kids
🐛 9 Bugs Fixed + 2 Small Improvements
Alongside our bigger work on the backbone of Strew (Learning logs) & the cute bookshelf addition, we’ve also been squashing bugs.
Here’s what we’ve fixed & improved this month:
- Bugs in dark-mode, report generation, photo selection, date-pickers, network drop-offs, and add new activity screens.
- Improved a few points which were high-friction, unnecessarily
✍ What is Coming Next?
Next month we hope to release our Study Points 2.0 evolutions of the main app. This one will be the biggest change we’ve done all year, geared towards more completely capturing your child’s learning record, and so being able to make more legit reports.
Watch this space, our new system will be out soon!
Alongside this, we’ve also started work on:
- (Optional) Cloud Sync for multi-device
- Learning Suggestions / Reflections on recent focuses
If you’d like to feed back on Strew Home ed, please do contact us – we are working on Strew day-in day-out and your feedback really guides our work.
As ever, thank you so much to all of you who have given, and continue to give, us crucial feedback on Strew and your home ed experience. You mean the world to us; we’re doing this for you!
Full Home Ed App Log (September 26):
v1.0.34 - 01/10/26
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- Added: Bookshelves feature! You can now create 'to read' lists for each child and log what's being read
- Improved: Adding an activity now lets you save books against it
- Fixed: Few general bugs in UI
v1.0.33 - 17/09/26
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- Fixed: Bug in dark mode where some text was white on white background
- Fixed: Bug in report generation, where print would sometimes crash the device
- Fixed: Bug where tapping image selection button loads of times, fast, would cause a crash in add home ed activity
- Fixed: Bug where network drop-out was causing app crash
- Fixed: Bug where some date formats were causing an app crash
- Fixed: Bug where some barcode scanned kids books caused a faulty image to be saved
- Fixed: Bug where some users got stuck on the 'adding new activity' loading screen
- Fixed: Bumped various Android Libraries to bring them up to date
v1.0.32 - 07/09/26
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- Added: Better range of child & parent avatars to better include users
- Improved: Removed share 1st activity prompt as it was adding friction to onboarding
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