What's new in Studia

Build 2 (v1.1) — a larger TestFlight update focused on scheduling accuracy, objective-level recall, and focus-session reliability.

Plans & scheduling

• Learning-objective scheduling — sessions are now built around specific learning objectives, with smarter packing for topics that need more than one sitting.
• More realistic session effort — Studia uses command words and objective metadata to estimate how much time each objective needs.
• Refined plan creation — the plan-creation flow has been split into a dedicated model, with cleaner feasibility checks and review handling.
• Objective-based plan refinement — rate objectives red, amber, or green so Studia can rewrite upcoming sessions around what actually needs work.
• Auto-saved ratings — staged objective ratings are saved as you go, so closing refinement part-way through no longer loses progress.
• Bulk topic rating — quickly mark a whole topic’s objectives when you already know where you stand.

Recall, flashcards & progress

• Per-objective recall checks — focus sessions now ask retrieval questions tied to the session’s learning objectives.
• Better post-session scoring — Studia now derives recall from objective-level self-ratings instead of a single broad estimate.
• Flashcards support — learning objectives can now include flashcard links from the content catalog.
• Readiness detail — the Progress dashboard now shows a readiness index with tappable component detail.
• Clearer mastery movement — the completed-session recap shows how each objective moved from previous rating to current rating.

Focus sessions & system timers

• AlarmKit-backed focus timers — on supported iOS versions, Studia uses system countdown alarms with matching Live Activity presentation.
• More reliable background timing — the focus ticker now pauses cleanly in the background and resumes when the app returns to the foreground.
• Single active timer surface — Studia clears stale alarms before scheduling the current focus segment to avoid stacked or orphaned countdowns.
• Polished Live Activity UI — focus and break Live Activities now have clearer segmented progress and Studia branding.

Shortcuts, widgets & navigation

• App Shortcuts — start your next study session, open Today, open a study plan, or jump to your streak from system shortcuts.
• Better widget routing — widget and shortcut actions now route more directly into the correct Studia surface.
• Improved plan and session deep links — navigation restoration is more robust when opening sessions from widgets, shortcuts, or notifications.

Session recap & streaks

• Updated post-session recap — the recap flow now highlights score, self-rated recall, objective mastery movement, activity tags, and streak progress.
• Streak photo prompt — Studia now nudges you to add a streak photo at the end of a session.
• Smoother photo flow — post-session photo capture and streak-card handling have been cleaned up.

A focused TestFlight update after the first v1.0 build.

Study data & privacy

• Data & iCloud settings — choose whether study data stays local to this device or syncs through your private iCloud.
• Clear local-only wording — the app now explains what local-only storage means, including how iOS backups remain controlled by you and Apple.
• Safer iCloud handling — Studia keeps local changes when iCloud is temporarily unavailable and retries when it can reconnect.
• Updated Privacy Policy and Terms — legal copy now reflects local storage, optional iCloud sync, streak photos, and the app's current data model.

Guidance & support

• Helpful in-app tips — lightweight tips now appear around plan details, actions, filters, the streak gallery, and topic objectives.
• Known issues screen — open issues and workarounds can now be shown in-app from the CMS.
• Polished onboarding and navigation — plan, calendar, progress, focus, and streak surfaces have small usability refinements.

Focus sessions & notifications

• Clearer notifications — study notification titles now use friendlier wording and visual cues.
• More resilient session state — running focus-session state and calendar sync state are tracked locally per device.

Streaks

• Better streak video export — exported streak videos are cached so repeat shares are faster.
• Background-ready sharing — if a streak video takes longer to prepare, Studia can finish preparing it and notify you when it is ready.
• Share-ready deep link — tapping the ready notification opens the streak gallery and presents the prepared share sheet.

Build 1 (v1.0) — the first public TestFlight of Studia. Built for iPhone and iPad.

Plans

• Guided plan creation — multi-step wizard to pick your exam board, qualification, subject, papers and topics, with a feasibility check before you commit.
• GCSE & A-level science — Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Combined Science, sourced from the Studia content catalog.
• Evidence-based scheduler — generates a session schedule tuned to spaced practice, retrieval, and interleaving across your selected topics.
• Plan refinement & editing — re-shape an existing plan without starting over.
• PDF export — share a plan as a printable PDF.

Focus sessions

• AlarmKit-powered timers — focus and break countdowns that survive lock and backgrounding, with system alerts when each block ends.
• Live Activities — live session progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
• Post-session reports — log what you covered with a RAG self-rating (Red/Amber/Green) per topic.
• Study Score — a session-quality metric reflecting focus, completion and reflection. Not a predicted grade.

Calendar & widgets

• Apple Calendar sync — opt in and Studia creates, updates and removes study-session events in your calendar of choice.
• Home-screen widgets — at-a-glance view of your next session, with an App Intent picker so you can choose which plan a widget tracks.
• Deep links — studia:// URL scheme for jumping into a plan or session.

Progress & streaks

• Progress dashboard — see coverage, RAG ratings and recent activity across topics.
• Topic detail — per-topic history and metrics.
• Streak gallery — attach photos or Live Photos from Camera or your library to mark each session; export your streak as a video to share.

Content & rendering

• LaTeX / equation rendering — formulas in study content render properly inline.
• In-app browser — open playlist and resource links without leaving Studia.
• Bundled legal documents — Privacy Policy and Terms available offline, in Markdown.

iPad

• Split view layout — sidebar navigation tuned for iPad, tab bar on iPhone.

Privacy

• No account, no email, no sign-in. Studia works straight out of the install.
• On-device by default — your plans, sessions and progress live in your local store; remote content (catalog, legal text) is read-only and cached locally.
• No third-party tracking or analytics SDKs.
• Standard encryption only — no custom cryptography; the build is exempt from US export compliance documentation.