Inklings PaperChem
Matter to molecules, on paper.
Printable chemistry worksheets with pictures you can read to the half millilitre.
Zero student screen timeprinted, worked in pencil
The atom to organic chemistry.
Eleven levels, from Grade 7 through General Chemistry to Organic Chemistry II.
Pictures you can read.
Graduated cylinders, thermometers and particle diagrams drawn to scale, so the numbers in the picture are the numbers in the question.
Zero student screen time.
They work on a printed page with a pencil. Only you use the app, to print each sheet and grade it with a few taps.
Printable chemistry worksheets that adapt to your student, from states of matter and the atom all the way to organic chemistry.
You tick what your student already knows. Inklings PaperChem builds a worksheet from the next few topics in the course, and you print it. They work on paper, away from a screen, with a pencil and a calculator. Then you open the same worksheet on your device, tap the problems they got wrong, and the next worksheet takes account of it — holding a topic back until it is solid, and slipping in the occasional refresher from something already mastered.
How it works
- Optionally set a parent PIN. If you do, answers, grading and the answer key sit behind it; if you don't, nothing in the app ever asks for one.
- Mark what your student already knows, or leave it blank to start at matter and measurement.
- Print the worksheet, or share it as a PDF.
- Grade by tapping the wrong problems on a copy of the printed page.
- The next worksheet is built from what that grading showed.
What is inside
- A course in eleven levels: Grades 7 to 11, then Chemistry I and II, General Chemistry I and II (together the AP Chemistry course), and Organic Chemistry I and II. The course is taken topic by topic, and nothing arrives before what it depends on.
- Numbers are generated fresh each time. A new topic starts with two problems and round numbers, and grows to full multi-step problems as your student gets it right.
- Pictures drawn to scale: particle diagrams, graduated cylinders and thermometers to read, graphs and curves, so the numbers in the picture are the numbers in the question.
- A full worked solution for every problem. While grading, tap a problem marked wrong and choose See Full Solution: the rule or law comes first, then every step with that problem's own numbers, often with a picture.
- A how-to page for every topic, with the method, the common mistakes and worked examples.
- A test at the end of each quarter of a level — two Mid-Terms, a Semester Final and a Final — plus tests and worksheets you put together yourself.
- Up to 30 students on one device, each with their own progress, worksheets and history.
What it needs
- An iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later.
- A printer for the worksheets. Any AirPrint printer works. If you have no printer, you can share the worksheet as a PDF and print it elsewhere.
- An internet connection only for watching the videos. Everything else works offline.
What it doesn't do
- No adverts, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts, no in-app purchases.
- No network connections of its own. Everything your student does stays on your device. The only thing that ever leaves the app is a video you choose to open, which plays in YouTube or Safari.
