For parents

Your student showed you an app, and you'd like to know what it actually does before anything gets approved. Fair. This page is the plain-language version: what Kaddy is, what its AI does, what data we collect, and how the social parts are kept safe. The legal versions are linked at the bottom.

What Kaddy is

Kaddy is a study planner for high schoolers: it tracks classes, assignments, and due dates in one place, sends reminders, and includes AI-powered study help: a tutor chat, flashcards, and practice quizzes built from their own notes. Streaks and points reward showing up daily, and the streak reminder comes around the time your student usually studies. Reminders arrive as notifications on the web and in the iPhone app. Kaddy requires users to be 13 or older.

What the AI tutor does

Kaddy's tutor is built for studying: it explains a concept a different way, walks through how to set up a problem, can quiz your student before a test, and gives feedback on their own draft. It will also answer questions directly when asked, so how it gets used is up to your student; Bloomer subscribers can pick a tutor style, like one that asks questions back instead of answering, or one that marks their answer before explaining. A style can change how the tutor teaches, never its safety rules. Every reply is instructed to stay appropriate for students as young as 13, and if a student mentions self-harm or abuse, the tutor is instructed to respond with care, point them to a trusted adult and, in the US, mention the 988 lifeline. Our terms are explicit that Kaddy is a study aid, not a way around academic-integrity rules.

What we collect, and why

Account basics: a username, an email address, and a birthdate. We ask for the birthdate at sign-up to check they're 13 or older, and keep it to set their age range (13-15, 16-17, 18-19 or 20+) for our safety rules. We may later use it to mark their birthday in the app. Other students can't see it. Accounts made before we started asking are asked once, the next time they open Kaddy; a birthdate given before 5 October 2026 was kept only as the range.
What your student enters: their classes, assignments, notes, grades if they choose to track them, photos they add, and their questions to the tutor. This is the product working, not profiling.
School and teacher names: so classmates with the same teacher can find each other and share study material.
What goes to the AI: questions, notes, photos and screenshots your student sends to an AI feature go to Anthropic, the company that makes the Claude AI, to get an answer. Kaddy asks your student before their first AI request, and they can turn AI features off in Settings → Privacy & Safety. Kaddy doesn't add their name or email, but a screenshot of a grade portal or a Classroom page usually shows their name, student ID and school.

We don't run ads and we don't sell personal data. The full detail (retention, third-party processors, deletion, and who can see what) is in the privacy policy. Your student can download their classes, assignments, notes and the messages they've sent from Settings → Data & Legal, or permanently delete their account from Settings → Account → Danger zone, at any time.

Messaging and the community

Direct messages only work between accepted friends. The one exception is Kaddy's own admin accounts, which can message anyone. Other Kaddy users can send your student a friend request, unless your student changes who can in Settings → Privacy & Safety to "My school" or "Nobody". ("My school" means accounts whose profile lists the same school. Kaddy doesn't check that, so it narrows who can ask but doesn't guarantee they're classmates.) Adult accounts can't send friend requests to students under 18, unless both have verified an email address from the same school. Your student can still send a request to an adult (an older sibling, say), and the adult can accept it, so it's worth talking with your teen about who they accept. Group chats can only be started with friends, and a new one can't put an adult and a student under 18 together unless those two are friends themselves or have both verified an email address from the same school. Everyone in a group sees its messages, including friends of friends. If an adult and a student under 18 share contact details in a group chat (like a phone number or a Snapchat handle), the message is still sent, but it's flagged for our moderators. Direct messages are private and aren't checked unless someone reports one, so it's worth showing your teen how to report and block. In these rules, 18 and 19 year olds count as adults only toward students 15 or younger, since many of them are still in high school with 16 and 17 year olds.

Blocking someone ends the friendship, stops direct messages and friend requests, and hides the two of them from each other in search and on profiles. In a group chat they're both in, your student stops seeing the blocked person's messages, but the blocked person can still see your student's, so leaving the group is the way to cut contact there. If the two already had a direct message, it stays in both chat lists, but neither of them can send anything new in it. In a chat they already share, neither one sees the other's read receipts, typing or new profile photo. When your student is online is only shown to friends, and never across a block, so the blocked person no longer sees it, and turning off Activity status in Settings → Privacy & Safety hides it from everyone. A reported message is kept for our moderators even if its sender deletes it, deletes their account or leaves the chat.

The Commons (where students review teachers and share class notes and flashcard decks) has filters and reporting. Teacher reviews can be read by anyone; the writer's name is shown only to their friends, and reviews with threats, slurs, misconduct allegations or contact details are held for a moderator.

Only students who have verified an email address from their school can post class announcements, class notes or decks to a class, but reading them isn't checked the same way: class notes can be read by anyone whose profile lists that school, and announcements and decks by anyone who adds that teacher, so class posts are best treated as public. Swearing and slurs are masked in announcements and notes, and in a shared deck's title in the class library and its title and cards when someone adds it to their own decks. Any class post, decks included, with threats, slurs or contact details (like a phone number or a Snapchat handle) is held until a moderator looks at it. Reviews, class posts, messages and people can all be reported, and moderators review reports. The rules and enforcement process are public in the moderation policy.

The weekly progress email

Your student can choose to send you a short weekly summary: assignments finished, minutes of focused study, their study streak, and which way grades are moving. Two things to know about how it's designed: the choice sits with the student (it's consent, not surveillance), and it shares progress, never content: the email never includes chats, messages or notes. Ask your student to turn it on in Settings → Notifications → Parent progress email.

Paying for it

The free plan is genuinely usable: a real course load, reminders, flashcards, quizzes, and the streak game, forever. Paid plans mainly raise the AI tutor's weekly allowance and remove class caps. Prices live in the app, plans can be switched or cancelled anytime, and there are no ads on any tier.

Reaching a human

Email intellibloomapp@gmail.com with questions, concerns, or a request to remove something. A person reads it.