Simpl for Windows 0.3.4 beta (v152)

A beta, to try before everyone else. Simpl offers it only to a PC with Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Get beta updates on. To try it: download Simpl-Setup.exe below and open it (it installs over the Simpl you have, your settings and sign-in as they were), then turn on Get beta updates, so each next beta comes by itself. Turning it off later keeps this version until a newer usual release comes out.

What's new in 0.3.4 (beta)

• Popups in the middle — What's New, Hand In, a new message and every other popup open in the middle of the window, not of the page beside the pane.

What's new in 0.3.3 (beta)

• Cleaner counter cards — the Dashboard's counter cards lose their coloured border; each keeps its own soft colour.

What's new in 0.3.2 (beta)

• Chemistry tools — the Periodic Table, Lewis Structures, Molecule Builder and Atoms & Orbitals, each its own tool in a new Chemistry section.
• Live updates — an open screen checks for new work every minute while Simpl is in view; course pages every 10 minutes.
• Dashboard cards — the counter cards grow into their lists again and fold back, are as tall as what is on them, and each wears its own colour.
• Wider tool popups — a tool opens across the whole window, over the pane; drag an edge to resize it, and it remembers the size.
• Only what changed — the Dashboard updates just the counters, cards and rows that changed, nothing else moves.
• Messages stay unread — a check never marks a message or reply read while you are away, and nothing is checked while the PC is locked.

What's new in 0.3.1

• More from Canvas — History, Help and your school's own tools in the sidebar.
• Beta updates — turn on Settings ▸ Updates ▸ Get beta updates to try new versions first; everyone else gets only the regular ones.
• Tools in popups — tools open over your work and never block the app (only a quiz does).
• Biology tools, fixed — controls and facts in sight at every window size, models full size, colours right from the start.
• Counters as before — square, coloured counters and the old counter panels and previews are back.
• Tools by provider — external tools grouped by their site (Macmillan Learning's links on one card), and their pages in light mode.

What's new in 0.3.0

• A biology toolkit — ten new tools, from a 3D cell to genetic crosses.
• Send from phone — scan a code to hand in photos; nothing leaves your Wi-Fi.
• Clearer screens — grades, dates and courses read one way everywhere.
• Updates on their own — new versions install themselves when you're not busy.
• Lighter and faster — much less memory when minimized; screens open 2–3x faster.
• Fewer PIN prompts — Windows Hello asks once, not every time.

Coming from 0.2.9 or earlier, update once from Settings ▸ Updates (Download, then Restart to Update); from 0.3.0 on, Simpl installs each new version by itself.

Download Simpl-Setup.exe and open it. It installs Simpl for you alone — no administrator needed — with a Start menu shortcut (and a desktop one if you tick it), then opens it. Simpl-Setup.exe is not code-signed yet: on "Windows protected your PC", choose More info → Run anyway. Once installed, Simpl updates itself — each new version downloads and goes in at a quiet moment, never over a quiz, a hand-in or a dialog (Settings ▸ Updates can turn that off, or put one in now with Restart to Update) — and you can uninstall it from Simpl's own Settings ▸ General ▸ Uninstall Simpl — where you can choose to erase your settings, grade history and saved sign-in too — or from Windows' Settings ▸ Apps, which keeps your settings and sign-in unless you erase them in Simpl first.

Simpl-Windows-x64.zip — the portable choice: unzip anywhere and run Simpl.exe (everything it needs is in the folder; it uses Microsoft Edge WebView2, which Windows 10 and 11 already have). The same "More info → Run anyway" applies.

Simpl for Windows, made again in Windows 11's look — an early preview. A test build for evaluation, not a release: the Mac app's updates and the first Windows preview's never offer it (this one's own Settings ▸ Updates offers the next Windows 11-look preview). The first Windows preview (windows-app-v…) stays available.

What is in it — the Mac app's screens and steps, in Windows 11's look:

• Windows 11's own look: Mica behind the window, rounded corners, the title bar with Back and snap layouts, Segoe UI Variable and Fluent icons, Windows 11's buttons, fields, toggles, cards and dialogs (the window dims behind each one), and Windows' motion;
• finding your school and signing in, as on the Mac: search for your school, see its sign-in page and confirm it, then sign in with Simpl's own card; "Logging you in", the note over a page you must finish yourself, Start Over, and "Stay logged in?" (kept in Windows' Credential Manager);
• the app laid out like Windows 11 Settings: the search box with its suggestions and commands (type / or press Ctrl+K), Dashboard, To Do, Calendar, Grades, Notifications, Inbox, Tools, your courses with their sections, your groups, and your account at the foot of the pane (Settings is in its menu); the page's title as a breadcrumb; Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+7 for the places;
• every screen drawn by Simpl: the Dashboard with its cards that open, To Do and New Task, the Calendar (month, week, list), Notifications, Grades with What-If, Inbox and New Message, Groups, All Courses, a course's home and every section, pages and files, an assignment with Hand In, its feedback and its rubric, Search, External Tools;
• a quick look at any piece of work: click a row and a card grows out of it; double-click to open it whole;
• quizzes, Knewton Alta and Macmillan in their own popups, as on the Mac;
• the tools: Citation generator, Focus timer, Calculator, Graphing calculator, the Periodic Table (with the electron cloud, the Lewis structure maker and the 3D molecule builder), Grade needed, File converter, Unit converter, Merge & split PDFs, PDF annotator, Image to text, Flashcards, and the biology tools (Cell Explorer, Gene Expression, Biomolecule Builder, DNA & RNA, Cell Division, Genetics Crosses, Hardy–Weinberg, Bio Lab Calculator, Enzyme Lab, Photosynthesis & Respiration) — each opens over the window, and any of them can be pinned to the title bar for its quick version;
• Settings laid out like Windows 11's Settings app, Guided Setup, What's New, the guided tour, themes and photos, reminders and new-activity alerts;
• an installer: Simpl-Setup.exe installs it for you alone, and updates it quietly by itself (or when you choose Restart to Update) — Simpl opens again on its own, where you were;
• on your taskbar: after the guided tour, Simpl asks once to be kept on the taskbar (and Settings ▸ General has Pin to taskbar… any time);
• runs in the background: closing the window keeps Simpl in the notification area (right-click its icon to quit);
• the window's size: it opens as you left it, never larger than your screen.