bessere.schule: Building a Student-First App for beste.schule

At 7:15 in the morning, a student has exactly one question: does my first lesson take place, and in which room? Getting that answer shouldn’t take more than a glance. My daughter’s school uses beste.schule for pretty much everything: timetable, substitutions, grades, the Klassenbuch (the digital class register) and announcements from the school. All the information is there. But every time we opened the app, we had the same feeling. It works. It just wasn’t built for us. So I built a better one - for my daughter, for students, for us. Hence the name: bessere.schule is German for “better school”. We deliberately kept it close to the official beste.schule (“best school”), so it’s obvious the two belong together. One App for Everyone #beste.schule calls itself “a platform for your entire school day”: grade book, report cards, Klassenbuch, attendance, parent communication, payments and analytics, all in one place. Teachers, school admins, parents and students all use the same app, and you…