A blacksmith shapes iron at the forge. An appsmith shapes software. I build simple, sturdy classroom apps that help students understand, practice, and enjoy what they're learning.
Made in a real classroom, tested with real students.
A spinner-based board game that turns any worksheet or review set into a whole-class game. You run it from your iPad at the front of the room, or from an Apple silicon Mac; your students play from their seats.
Three math tools that turn “this makes no sense” into number sense. Build numbers from millions down to thousandths with place-value discs, model the four operations one step at a time, and round decimals on a number line. You run it from your iPad at the front of the room, then hand it to a student to try.
Students work on paper, then check each answer at a classroom computer or iPad and know right away. You watch the class's progress live. Import an answer key, or build one in a minute, and it works with any worksheet.
New classroom tools are being forged now. Be the first to hear when the next one is ready.
Every tool starts with a real classroom need and is tested with real students before it ships.
No ads and no tracking. I keep student data out of the picture wherever I can.
No long setup or training sessions. Open the app, and you're ready to teach.
I'm Mr. Phillips, and I've been teaching for 20 years in public schools, international schools, and classical Christian schools, including eight years in Japan. I've taught every grade from 2nd through 12th, and just about every subject along the way: math, science, history, Bible, Latin, reading, writing, grammar, and spelling. Math has always been my specialty.
For most of those years, I've also served as my school's IT coordinator, and for more than five summers I've run tech camps for students. My own coding journey started with building apps in Scratch alongside my son.
Somewhere along the way, the teacher became an appsmith. Now I build the classroom tools I always wished I had: shaped in a real classroom, tested with real students, and refined one strike at a time.
Why Formatio Forge? Formatio is Latin for shaping, forming, and training. A forge is where raw material becomes something useful through heat and patient, repeated work.
Questions, feedback, or a classroom tool you wish existed. I'd love to hear it.
