Press kit
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One-paragraph description
ScheduleLock is a free alarm app for K–12 teachers on rotating block schedules. Teachers tell it their school's rotation — A/B, odd/even, or any 2–8 day cycle — and their term dates, and the app works out the rest of the year: alarms fire only on school days, match the day's rotation, and a snow day is a one-tap override that resets itself by morning. ScheduleLock has no ads, no accounts, no subscriptions, and no tracking of any kind — it runs fully offline. It's available on the App Store and Google Play.
The story
Hunter Davis built ScheduleLock as a gift for his partner, a teacher on a rotating block schedule. It started with her question: was there a way to turn all of her alarms on and off at once? Because no alarm app understood her school's rotation, she flipped them by hand every day — and kept separate notes just to track which ones (a student's daily nurse visit, a club that only meets on certain days). Hunter isn't a developer — he has spent about a decade in tech as a project manager — and built the app using AI coding tools over roughly three months, working with her through scoping, design, and QA. It launched on both app stores in June 2026 — free for every teacher, with a public commitment that the alarms and schedule sharing stay free and that the app never collects data. The full version is on the about page.
Fact sheet
- Name: ScheduleLock (store listing: "ScheduleLock: Teacher Alarms")
- What it is: Schedule-aware alarm app for teachers on rotating schedules
- Platforms: iOS and Android
- Built: March–June 2026 — roughly three months from first commit to both app stores
- Launched: June 2026
- Price: Free — no ads, no subscriptions; alarms and schedule sharing are free for teachers permanently
- Privacy: No accounts, no analytics, no data collection; fully offline (privacy policy)
- Schedule support: A/B block, odd/even, 2–8 day rotations, traditional weekly (details)
- Breaks & holidays: Mark days off on the calendar; rotations pick back up where they left off
- Sharing: Export a whole schedule as one file and send it to another teacher — no accounts, nothing sent over a network
- Creator: Hunter Davis, independent — a project manager, not a developer; the app was built with AI coding tools
- Website: schedulelock.app
Roadmap
In development:
- A guided setup flow for teachers running multiple terms or teaching at more than one school
Store links
Brand mark
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Boilerplate facts for fact-checking
- There are roughly 3.7 million public school teachers in the U.S.; rotating block schedules are common in secondary schools.
- ScheduleLock's alarms are built on the platform alarm scheduler (not background timers), so they survive reboots and Do Not Disturb.
- The app makes no network requests — there is no server.
Email schedulelockapp@gmail.com for anything else — replies are fast.