About

A studio built around how people learn

Owl Core is an educational app development company, building learning applications for schools, ministries and NGOs on three continents.

Owl Core team reviewing learning app designs in the studio

Our story

We started by asking a simple question: why do so many learning apps look successful in dashboards and fail in classrooms? Twelve years later, the answer still shapes our practice — engagement is not learning, and averages hide the learners who need the most help.

Non-governmental organizations are our largest client group. Working with them shaped the company: grant-cycle scoping, field-first engineering for shared devices and offline classrooms, donor-grade outcome reporting, and a handover of documentation, training and code so local teams own the product after we leave.

Pedagogues, data scientists and engineers work in one loop: observe, design, build, measure. Nothing ships until it teaches something measurable.

2014

Founded in Haifa as a two-person learning app studio.

2017

Frankfurt studio opens to serve European data and privacy work.

2020

First large-scale NGO literacy program across six languages.

2023

California studio opens; product and partnerships move west.

2026

12M+ learners reached across 23 markets.

What we stand for

Evidence before opinion

Every feature carries a hypothesis and a measurement plan.

Access is a design constraint

Low bandwidth, shared devices and offline classrooms are the default, not the edge case.

Local, not translated

Curriculum, culture and assessment norms shape the product in each market.

Mission over vanity metrics

We optimise for learning outcomes, not for time-in-app.

Three studios

One team spread across three time zones, so a learner question asked in the morning is answered before the school day ends.

Haifa

Israel

Research & engineering

Tel Aviv

Israel

Design, product & Arabic-language content

California

United States

Product & NGO partnerships

Frankfurt

Germany

Data, privacy & localization

Hanoi

Vietnam

APAC delivery & field programs

Asunción

Paraguay

Latin America programs & Spanish content

Let's build something that teaches

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