Is the school module connected to the school?

No. patchio isn't connected to your school – there's no school account, and the school sees nothing of your data. You enter the timetable, dates and grades yourself. There's one one-way exception: if your school or its portal publishes a calendar link, you can subscribe to it – patchio then only pulls in those public dates, nothing flows back. It stays your own record: it lives in your household, and you decide per child who sees the grades.

What does the school letter scanner need?

An admin has to switch on the AI features under Manage – they're off by default. When you scan, only that one photo goes to Claude (Anthropic), and only when you tap the button. Whatever patchio recognises arrives as a suggestion; you only add what's right.

Who sees my child's grades?

You decide per child: the whole family or only the child (that needs the child to have their own login). Every change is logged, and the child sees it the next time they open the app – no reading along in secret.

School planner app: timetable, holidays & dates

Your child's timetable, dates and school holidays – and in the evening, patchio knows what has to go in the school bag tomorrow.

Enter the timetable once: tap a subject, then tap the periods – on a computer you drag subjects into the grid. Double periods show as a single block, patchio works out A/B weeks itself, and you print an A4 sheet per child for the fridge.
At half past eight in the evening, someone remembers the PE kit is needed tomorrow.
At a time of your choosing, patchio lets you know what tomorrow holds: the subjects in period order, your notes from the timetable (“PE kit”), upcoming assessments and events like “School trip: Berlin (day 2 of 3)”. It knows which week is running by itself. On weekends and during the holidays, it stays quiet.
The school trip, the outing, parents' evening – it's all in the school letter and nowhere else.
Take a photo of the school letter – with the AI features switched on, patchio suggests the dates from it, and you only add what's right. Multi-day events like the school trip show up in the family calendar as one continuous span, and for a test you add study tasks right away (“2 of 3 done”).
You hunt down the holiday dates all over again every year – and after the summer everything starts from scratch.
School holidays are already in – for all 16 German federal states, Austria by state and Switzerland by canton, as their own layer in the family calendar. After the summer holidays patchio reminds you about the new school year, previous years' grades stay with the child, and if the school or its portal (such as WebUntis, Schulmanager or IServ) offers a calendar link, you bring the dates in with a preview.
How's my child actually doing – and who's really allowed to see it?
You keep grades as your own record, the way your school scores them: German 1–6, points at upper-secondary level, the Austrian and Swiss scales, weighted by major and minor assessments. In Bavaria, patchio also works out the average for the Übertritt (move to secondary school after year 4). Per child, you decide whether grades are visible to the whole family or only to the child themselves.