Install the App
RateMyCoach works in your browser, but installing it to your home screen gives you a full-screen app with faster loading and push notifications. There's nothing to download from an app store — it installs straight from your browser in a few taps.
Why install?
- Full-screen app — no browser bars, opens from your home screen like any app.
- Notifications — get alerts for messages, schedule changes, and safety notices. (On iPhone and iPad, notifications require installing to the home screen first.)
- Always up to date — security fixes and new features are live the moment we ship them. No waiting for an app-store update, no version gaps between users.
- No app store — it installs from your browser, and updates itself automatically.
iPhone & iPad
Use Safari (other browsers on iOS can't add to the home screen).
Open RateMyCoach in Safari
Make sure you're on ratemycoach.pro.
Tap the Share button
Look for the icon — a square with an up arrow — in the toolbar (bottom on iPhone, top on iPad).
Tap "Add to Home Screen"
Scroll the share sheet if you don't see it right away.
Tap "Add"
The RateMyCoach icon appears on your home screen. Open it from there from now on.
Android
Use Chrome (or another Chromium browser).
Open RateMyCoach in Chrome
You may see an "Install app" prompt automatically — if so, tap it and you're done.
Otherwise, tap the menu (⋮)
Top-right corner of Chrome.
Tap "Install app" or "Add to Home screen"
Confirm to add it.
Open it from your home screen
It now runs full-screen like a native app.
Desktop (Chrome, Edge, Brave)
Open RateMyCoach in your browser
On ratemycoach.pro.
Click the install icon in the address bar
A small monitor/▾ icon at the right of the address bar — or use the menu (⋮) → "Install RateMyCoach".
Click "Install"
It opens in its own window and is added to your apps.
Common questions
Is it really not in the app store?
Correct — RateMyCoach is a Progressive Web App (PWA). It installs directly from your browser with no app-store download. Beyond the convenience, there's a security reason we built it this way: security fixes ship to every user immediately, without waiting for app-store review or asking you to update. See Why not a native app? below for the full explanation. (And yes — it also means we don't pay app-store fees, which helps us keep pricing reasonable.)I don't see an install option.
You may already have it installed, or your browser may not support installing (try Safari on iPhone/iPad, or Chrome on Android and desktop). Reloading the page once can also help the install prompt appear.Why not a native app?
Short answer: it's a deliberate security and trust decision, not a shortcut.
Native apps (the kind you download from the App Store or Google Play) bundle a snapshot of the app and all its third-party code at the moment it was published. If a security vulnerability is found in any of that code after the app ships, users are exposed until a new version clears app-store review — a process that can take days — and until they actually install the update. Some users never update at all.
A Progressive Web App doesn't have that gap. When we push a security fix, it's live for every user on their next visit — no review queue, no version fragmentation, no one still running a three-month-old build.
A few other things that matter for a platform handling family data:
- Smaller attack surface. Native apps routinely bundle dozens of third-party SDKs — analytics, advertising, crash-reporting — each one a potential entry point. Our PWA runs inside your browser's own security sandbox, with a much tighter and auditable dependency chain.
- Browser-enforced permissions. Permissions (camera, notifications, location) are managed by your browser, which gives you a visible, revocable control — not buried in a settings menu two levels deep. Your browser can't be silently persuaded to grant more access than you approved.
- HTTPS is non-negotiable. Progressive Web Apps are technically required to be served over HTTPS. Every byte between your device and our servers is encrypted in transit, by design, not by choice.
- Isolated storage. Your data in the app is sandboxed to the ratemycoach.pro origin. Other apps and other sites cannot read it.
For a platform that handles children's information and family communications, we think these properties matter more than the familiarity of an App Store listing.