# LockIn Study Coach

> LockIn Study Coach (iPhone/iPad app by Joseph Pearlman.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lockin-study-coach/id6787458640 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Joseph Pearlman](https://appshunter.io/developer/6787458642)
- Category: Education, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 14 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lockin-study-coach/id6787458640/reviews.md

## What is LockIn Study Coach?

LockIn Study Coach turns your department's policies, SOGs, and study guides into a complete exam-prep system — built for firefighters working toward a captain or officer promotion.

Upload a PDF or scan pages with your camera, and LockIn keeps every flashcard and question linked back to the exact page it came from. Before you make a new card, LockIn shows you what's already been made from that page, so you're never duplicating work.

STUDY YOUR WAY
• Flashcards, multiple-choice questions, and a matching game
• Timed Type Sprint drills and a Memory Ladder for spaced repetition
• Full-length practice tests with performance breakdowns by topic
• Custom Topic Mix — pick any combination of categories, policies, or SOGs and study just that material in one session

STAY ORGANIZED
• Study packs and categories keep every policy and SOG in its place
• Highlight and mark up PDF pages directly
• Track streaks, badges, and weak areas so you always know what to review next

SHARE STUDY PACKS
Publish a pack to the shared library so others studying for the same exam can use it, and browse what they have published. Each pack shows the exam, agency, document and chapter it came from, so you know what you are picking up. Publishing is entirely your choice — nothing is shared until you choose to publish it, and you can unpublish at any time. Anything you would rather not see can be reported or its creator blocked.

YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
• Your documents, cards and progress live on your device
• Turn on iCloud sync to move your material between your own devices — directly through your own Apple ID, never through a company server
• Only the packs you deliberately publish are visible to other people, and those carry the creator name you set
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking

STUDY WITH A PARTNER
Connect with another LockIn user to send each other practice challenges and see how you both did.

OPTIONAL AI ASSIST
Add your own AI provider API key to get help drafting flashcards and questions from material you select. Entirely optional, off until you turn it on.

Built by a firefighter, for firefighters preparing for their next promotional exam.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.4 — 2026-09-24

update in how smart study gives questions

### 2.3 — 2026-09-14

Your roadmap now counts what you actually did.

Progress could be credited twice, so the plan believed you were further ahead than you were — on a real plan, 207 units of study were paid for twice. Answering a question wrong also moved the task forward twice, which meant missing more of a task finished it sooner. Both are fixed, and days you miss are counted as missed instead of quietly disappearing.

One answer to "how is today going."

Home has a Today card, and the number it shows is the same one the planner and the widget show. The widget recalculates instead of showing whatever it last saved, refreshes at midnight, and counts days since your test once the date has passed.

Cards filed under the wrong document can be moved.

Flag a flashcard or question as Wrong Document and pick the one it actually came from. It's then taught with that document's material and counts toward its roadmap tasks.

Nothing you send disappears.

Messages, packs, notes, PDFs and challenges show whether they've arrived. Anything that didn't can be retried or deleted, and retries happen on their own the next time LockIn syncs. A weak signal used to swallow a message silently.

Friend and group chats work the same way.

Day dividers, the sender's name at the start of a run, timestamps where they belong, and one menu on a long press. Typing in a long conversation is no longer slow.

Sharing is safer.

Report or block a person, a message, a pack or a group member. Group owners can remove members. Invite links can't be used by a stranger to sit in a thread.

Groups sync properly. Messages and shared items arrive reliably, results stop duplicating, and shared PDFs download when you save them.

Your data is safer on disk. Files are written atomically, a file that fails to load is never written over, and Delete Local App Data now only affects the device you're on.

### 2.2 — 2026-09-11

Roadmap completion has been rebuilt. It's now worked out in one place
from what you actually studied, so a rebuild can't lose a finished
week, checked work stays checked, unchecking sticks, and every review
counts — including your second pass through a deck.

Study also credits to the right chapter now, even when a document is
filed under a code like "FR-M-102." A new Check Material Is Linked
screen finds cards that drifted from their document and offers to
reconnect them.

Messaging friends works: messages send and arrive, friends appear as
a conversation list you can name, and you can attach study material.

Plus reporting and blocking in the shared library, and a proper Mac
window for the document reader.

### 2.1 — 2026-09-08

Version 2.1

STUDY PLAN
The Roadmap now knows which document your cards came from.

• Cards are matched to documents by name, not filing code —
  "SOG 210-01 Communications" and your PDF titled
  "Communications" are now the same thing. This reconnected
  around 1,400 cards that the plan couldn't see.
• Small spelling differences no longer break the link. A new
  Check Material Is Linked screen finds cards whose source
  doesn't match any document and suggests the one you meant.
• Study packs can be linked to a document directly, for packs
  whose cards don't name their own source.
• Practice waits for reading. Flashcards and questions for a
  chapter are no longer scheduled ahead of the reading, and a
  single topic's backlog can't fill a whole day.
• "I haven't read this yet" now clears that source's practice
  properly, including on days already passed.
• The plan file no longer grows without limit, so opening the
  Roadmap stays fast as the term goes on.

FRIENDS AND MESSAGES
Messages now actually arrive.

• Fixed the cause of messages sending but never appearing.
• The friends screen is a list of conversations: it shows the
  last message and when it was sent, newest first.
• Name your friends so you know who you're talking to.
• Send cards or a whole study pack from the + button without
  leaving the conversation.
• Threads open at the newest message, mark each new day, and
  group messages sent together.

MAC
• Maximizing the window now resizes the window itself.

### 2.0.2 — 2026-09-04

Shared Library safety tools: You can now report a shared pack or block a creator whose packs you don't want to see. Reports are reviewed and rule-breaking packs are removed.
Smarter study plans: Fixed a series of issues where flashcards and questions from certain documents weren't properly linked to their source — reading and practice should now schedule much more accurately across your library.
Fix mismatched sources yourself: A new "Unmatched Material" screen finds documents whose name may have drifted from their cards (a typo, a dropped word) and lets you confirm the fix in one tap.
Practice unlocks as you read: Flashcards and questions from a chapter now become available in proportion to how much of it you've actually read, instead of all at once.
Mac improvements: Fixed several screens that could get stuck open with no way to close them, and added a maximize button to the document viewer.
Smaller fixes and performance improvements throughout.

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