Hey Ladybird: School Admin
Joe Bishop Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Hey Ladybird: School Admin is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Joe Bishop. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 22, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 46 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 22
- 2026 · v1.0.15
Screenshots
About Hey Ladybird: School Admin
Hey Ladybird is the AI-powered school admin app for UK parents. Point your camera at a letter, forward a school email, or share from WhatsApp and Hey Ladybird extracts every date, cost, contact, action item, profile detail and expiry date. Most apps stop at dates. We find all six. You didn't sign up to be your family's unpaid secretary. But here you are, staring at a crumpled school letter at 10pm, typing dates into your phone, and hoping you haven't already missed non-uniform day. My husband Joe built this app for me when he saw me crying at the kitchen table over a missed school trip payment. Now we want to help you too. Hey Ladybird gives you that time back. It's the family app that actually reads your school letters for you. And now it's built for both of you. BUILT FOR TWO Invite your partner to your family. One calendar, one to-do list, one filing cabinet. Whatever one of you scans, forwards or shares, the other can open and sort. No more being the only one who knows what's going on. HOW IT WORKS Point the Ladybird Lens at any school letter. In about 10 seconds, our AI reads the whole document and pulls out: Dates: Parents' evenings, inset days and trips drop straight into your family calendar. Costs: Hidden payments and voluntary contributions, with direct links to ParentPay, SchoolMoney, Arbor and more. Action Items: Consent forms, packed lunches, costumes. Turned into a to-do list so nothing gets forgotten. Contacts: The teacher's email, the school office number. Saved in one tap. Profile Details: Class, teacher, allergies, uniform sizes. Kept up to date without retyping. Expiry Dates: Medications, passports, insurance. All tracked with red, amber and green warnings. YOU ARE ALWAYS IN CONTROL Everything the AI finds goes through a review screen where you check, edit and approve before it's saved. You always have the final say. THREE WAYS TO CAPTURE Ladybird Lens — Point your camera at any letter, form or notice. Ladybird Post — Forward school emails to your private @heyladybird.co.uk address. Forward it. Forget it. Share Extension — See something in WhatsApp, Mail or Safari? Tap Share, pick Hey Ladybird, done. YOUR FAMILY COMMAND CENTRE Family Calendar — Every date sorted by child, colour-coded, with a week-ahead view. Ladybird's List — Action items and expiry dates grouped by family member. Green means sorted. Amber means soon. Red means now. The Nest — Your family's digital filing cabinet. Documents stored securely, organised by child. Family Profiles — Parents, children and pets, with medical details, school info and emergency contacts. Ladybird Spots — Missing out on UK family support? See if you're eligible for uniform grants, childcare funding or Healthy Start vouchers. THE 10-SCAN CHALLENGE Start with a 7-day free trial and 10 free document scans. Scan your worst school letter and watch what happens. If it doesn't save you time, cancel any time. BUILT FOR UK PARENTS Hey Ladybird understands ParentMail, school newsletters, dinner money letters, trip consent forms and everything else in the book bag. Built by a UK family, for UK families. PRIVACY AND SECURITY Guided by the ICO Children's Code. Registered with the ICO (ZC106730). Analytics only with your consent. We never sell your data. We never show ads. Hey Ladybird Premium: £9.99/month or £79.99/year with a 7-day free trial including 10 free scans. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Service: heyladybird.co.uk/policies/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: heyladybird.co.uk/policies/privacy-policy Less remembering. More living.
What’s new
Version 1.0.15 · Updated October 22, 2026
Repeating clubs and activities - Scan a letter with a weekly club and it now saves as one repeating event, with half-term and other skipped dates taken out automatically. - Tap any date of a repeating event to see its details, skip a single date, or remove the whole series. - If a letter doesn't say when a club ends, you'll be asked for an end date or a number of sessions. Meet Logs: a running feed of everything added to your family's calendar and to-dos. Your partner scanned a letter while you were at work? Open Logs and see exactly what went in. Every date, cost and document, who added it, and when. The little badge on your dashboard tells you when there's something new to catch up on. Sharing just got sturdier. Sharing school letters and PDFs into Hey Ladybird now works reliably even on patchy mobile signal. Now: bigger files, slower connections, no more stuck-on-processing. Share from the school gate, it'll get there. Share the dates and to-dos! Scanned a school letter? You can now share what's in it with anyone. After saving, tap Share, choose which dates and to-dos to send, and fire the link into the class WhatsApp group. Anyone who taps it can add them in seconds, whether they have Hey Ladybird or not. And when they add them to their own family, they choose who each one's for. Invite your partner Hey Ladybird is built for two. Invite another parent to your family and you'll both see the same calendar, the same to-dos, the same school letters. Anything one of you shares or forwards can be opened and sorted by the other. Also in this update: sharing now covers to-dos as well as dates, tighter privacy on shared links, password reset improvements, calendar refinements and small fixes throughout.
App privacy
The developer, Joe Bishop, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Health & Fitness: Health
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name, Phone Number
- User Content: Photos or Videos, Other User Content
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Alternatives to Hey Ladybird: School Admin
Looking for apps like Hey Ladybird: School Admin? Here are 6 similar apps on the App Store. The highest rated is GlanceHQ (5.0/5), and all 6 are free to download.
-
Sync School Events
-
SchoolSync UK
-
Cyril: School Calendar Admin
-
GlanceHQ
5.0
-
Sense: Shared Family Calendar
4.8
-
Smart Printer and Scanner App
4.2
| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hey Ladybird: School Admin | – | Free | October 22, 2026 | |
| Sync School Events | – | Free | Apr 21, 2026 | Compare |
| SchoolSync UK | – | Free | Oct 20, 2026 | Compare |
| Cyril: School Calendar Admin | – | Free | Oct 27, 2026 | Compare |
| GlanceHQ | 5.0 / 5 (3) | Free | Nov 2, 2026 | Compare |
| Sense: Shared Family Calendar | 4.8 / 5 (45) | Free | Oct 26, 2026 | Compare |
| Smart Printer and Scanner App | 4.2 / 5 (5) | Free | Jun 6, 2025 | Compare |