A school year that plans itself a little.
Contals keeps the year plan, project week and school trip on simple boards that the staff keep current and parents read for free.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.
School year – class 4b
Before school starts
- Head teacher
Order books and supplies
Aug 1 - Parents
Welcome letter to parents
Aug 15
First weeks
- Parents
Prepare the parents’ evening
Sep 122MK - Class
Agree class rules together
Done
- Class
Seating plan
Teaching is the job. The organizing eats the evenings.
The school trip in an e-mail thread, the consent forms on paper, the packing list as a photo in the chat.
Contals is made for teaching teams with little time.
- Templates for the school year
- Parents free as viewers
- A QR code for parents’ evening
- Data stored in the EU
Start from a template
Pick a template, set the date – lists, cards and due dates are in place.
Parents by QR code
The code at parents’ evening, and parents are in – for free.
Learn more – Parents by QR code
The whole school year in the calendar
The due dates of every board in one place, each in its colour.
Learn more – The whole school year in the calendar
Up and running in three steps
Create your school’s workspace
Sign up and name it after your school.
Start from a template
Pick the first day of school, and the dates are set.
Invite colleagues and parents
Parents by QR code – free as viewers or volunteers.
For teaching teams, school leaders and parent councils
Yes, if you organize the school year, projects and events together.
- Year plan
- Project week
- School trip
- Parents’ evening
No timetables, no grades, no pupil records – and Contals is made for people aged 16 and over.
Ready-made templates for this
School year (class)
5 lists · 13 cards
Project week
5 lists · 12 cards
The catch? Contals is new.
Only teachers who organize boards pay – parents and helpers are free on every plan.
Grades and sensitive pupil data belong in the school’s systems, not in Contals.
The full picture: costs, export, cancelling, where data lives
- What it costs
- Full members (people who create and organize boards) pay per month. Volunteers, guests and viewers are free on every plan, forever. A small team uses Contals for free: up to 5 full members and 10 active boards. On the free plan, notifications arrive in the app, by push and in the weekly summary e-mail. A free organization nobody uses for 90 days is paused until an owner signs in again. Prices are early-access prices and become final before the public launch.
- Your data stays yours
- Export a board or a workspace as JSON at any time, on every plan – cards, comments, Power-Up data and the activity of the last 13 months; the whole organization in one file on Team and Business. No support ticket, no fee.
- Leaving is easy
- Cancel any time; paid plans run to the end of the period, then the organization continues on the free plan – nothing is deleted. An organization is deleted only when an owner asks for it, 30 days later; deleting your account removes your personal data after a 30-day grace period. Billing records are kept only as long as tax law requires.
- Where your data lives
- Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt (Germany). Cloudflare is a US company; we say “EU data residency”, not “sovereign”. Details on the security page.
- How we make money
- From full members on paid plans. No ads, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking cookies, no metered AI credits. Visits to the website and the sign-in pages are counted with privacy-friendly, cookieless statistics (Fathom); signed-in pages load none.
Eight pay. 60 parents don’t.
Parents read the class board and help at events – free, on any number of boards.
Example: 8 teachers, 60 parents, a class board and an event board
Contals TeamEarly-access price
8 full members × CHF 4.50€4.50$4.50; parents free as viewers or volunteers
CHF 36€36$36
Trello Standard
Guests on 2+ boards count as members: 68 × $5 (if every parent sees one board only: 8 × $5 = $40)
≈ $340
Asana Starter
8 teachers need 10 seats (seats in steps) × $10.99; parents as guests with limited rights
≈ $110
Parents find the answer on the board
What a week can look like – an invented example.
Mon 07:30
Before the first lesson: two consent forms are still missing.
Mon 12:15
A colleague takes “Book the bus” and sets the date.
Wed 19:00
Parents’ evening: the QR code on the slide, 20 parents reading along.
Fri 16:00
The trip card is done – without a reminder e-mail.
Without one place
- A year plan only one person keeps up.
- Consent forms on paper.
- Parents’ questions by e-mail.
With Contals
- A board per class and project.
- Checklists show what has come back.
- Parents read along as viewers.
Questions and answers
Can pupils use Contals?
Pupils from 16 can have their own account; younger pupils only with the consent of a parent or guardian. Contals asks for no birth date. Many classes simply work with a board the teacher keeps, which parents read as viewers.
Do parents need to pay or install anything?
No. Parents join for free as viewers or volunteers – with an invite link or a QR code – and use Contals in the browser; the app can be installed on the phone if they like.
Where are the data stored?
Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt. Keep grades and sensitive pupil data in your school’s own systems.
Are there templates for school?
Yes: School year (class) and Project week, both in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish, free on every plan. Each creates a board with lists, cards, checklists and dates.
Can a school get nonprofit pricing?
Nonprofit pricing is for registered churches, charities and associations, and we review each request. A school run by a registered association or foundation, or a parents’ association, can ask for it on its organization’s billing page: the Team plan free for up to 15 full members and 50 % off paid plans beyond that. For public schools we decide per request. Parents and helpers are free as volunteers or viewers anyway.
Start the school year on a board.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.