Made by a working elementary school teacher

Classroom tools that don't get in your way.

Lightweight, single-page software for real classrooms. No installs. No bloat. No data harvesting. Just tools that quietly do their job — built by someone who's still in the room with kids.

Big Brain Labs mascot — a smiling brain wearing glasses, holding a beaker, with a lightbulb above its head
Built for grades 3K–8 Single-file. No installs. Privacy-first by default Made by a teacher, in a classroom Built for grades 3K–8 Single-file. No installs. Privacy-first by default Made by a teacher, in a classroom
The Lineup

A few tools. Zero nonsense.

Each one solves a specific, annoying problem teachers actually have. Use what you need. Skip what you don't.

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THE TOUCHLESS HALL PASS KIOSK

Mount an iPad on the wall by your door. Kids wave at it to sign out. Wave again to sign in. You stop getting interrupted mid-lesson to write down "Maya · bathroom · 10:47."

  • Touchless sign-out by hand gesture
  • Live face cards show who's currently out
  • Dashboard catches the frequent flyers
Try free for 14 days
Free preview
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MorningLab
MORNING MEETING · 3K-2

Run morning meeting on the screen. Calendar, weather, daily greetings, and SEL routines for your littlest learners. Built warm and visual on purpose.

  • Calendar, weather, day-of-the-week songs
  • Greeting and SEL check-in routines
  • Free while in preview — try it tomorrow
Open MorningLab
Free preview
FRONT OF ROOM
SeatLab
CLASSROOM SEATING SIMULATOR

Plan your room before students walk in. Drag desks, set conflicts, hit Auto-Arrange. Save layouts for every section. Print or share.

  • Drag-and-drop room and desk layouts
  • Auto-Arrange respects student conflicts
  • Save and print layouts per class
Open SeatLab
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SubSave
SUB PLANS, SAVED
Coming soon
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Scheduler
PERIODS, PULL-OUTS, EVERYTHING
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THE TARDY KIOSK
Want to know when each one lands? Drop me a line and I'll email you when something's ready to try. No newsletter, no marketing — just a heads-up when one of these is real.
Email me when they launch
From the founder

Real classroom problems, solved one at a time.

Big Brain Labs is a one-teacher software studio. I started it because every tool I was supposed to use as a teacher was either built by a giant ed-tech company that hadn't been in a classroom in twenty years, or some nightmare of pop-ups, ads, and dashboards that wanted to "track engagement."

Every app starts the same way: I notice something annoying in my own classroom — the clipboard kids forget to sign back in, the morning meeting that drags, the tardy log that never gets filed — and I build the tool I wish existed. I polish it until I'm proud to use it with my own students. Then, and only then, do I put it on the internet.

No private equity. No engagement dashboards. No tracking pixels embedded in your students' photos. Just useful software that gets out of your way.

If you're a teacher and you want to test something early, I'd love that. If you find a bug, I'm the one fixing it. — hello@brbkiosk.us

For admins & districts

Buying for a school or district?

Big Brain Labs apps run on the devices you already own and don't transmit student data off the device. We offer institutional pricing for schools deploying to 10+ classrooms, signed Data Privacy Agreements (DPAs), and direct support during the school year.

Email us about institutional pricing