You asked for these. Here they are, free.

“Hook you, then charge you when you've invested so much time in it. Shame.”

Shipped: Versed Play has no paid tier. Hosting, joining, up to 250 players, the library, the Daily 5 and your results all stay free, and the landing page says so in numbers. play.versedapps.com

“You can no longer download a report for free...$25 a month.”

Shipped: Results download as a CSV from the final screen, with a column per question. They stay with you; we keep no copy.

“REVIEW THE DATA WITH THEM!!! Which questions were missed the most?”

Shipped: Every game ends on a most-missed board, worst question first, under the leaderboard.

“awards accuracy over speed...levels the playing field for kids who need more time”

Shipped: A scoring option: full points for every right answer, however fast. Players can also skip a question with no penalty.

“Chromebooks are gone so no Blooket or Kahoot. Any simple games we could play”

Shipped: Team mode. The game runs on the big screen with two to six teams and one shared buzzer device at play.versedapps.com/buzz, or the host's keyboard. No student phones.

“My school district has blocked blooket, gimkit, kahoot and Quizlet due to privacy”

Shipped: A privacy page per product, written for the person who approves websites: what is stored, for how long, no student accounts, no Google login, no third-party scripts beyond Google Fonts, and GDPR, COPPA, FERPA and PDPA in plain words. play.versedapps.com/privacy, study.versedapps.com/privacy, teach.versedapps.com/privacy

“Never require signup for trying an app, especially for a Show HN.”

Shipped: No sign-up on Play, Study or any tool. Teach works without an account too; an account only keeps your tracker across devices.

“These things will need lot of people to actually be useful.”

Shipped: The landing page lists the rooms open right now with head-counts, three group sessions a day start on their own in every public room, and a pet from an earlier visitor sleeps in the room so it never looks empty. study.versedapps.com

“i used to love studystream since 2023 not until it became a subscription thing.”

Shipped: Rooms are free, no camera, no account. Pick a pet and a first name. Rooms hold 30 and are wiped after six hours.

“removed some of the previous features and put them behind a paywall”

Shipped: A shared 25/5 or 50/10, or Flow: counts up, chimes softly every 25 minutes, never forces a break. None of it is gated.

“I hate them. It makes me read slower and not better.”

Shipped: The easy reader keeps your own font by default. OpenDyslexic is one option among several, off unless you choose it, and only offered if it is already on your device.

“I am able to process things so much better listening than reading them.”

Shipped: Read aloud. Paste text, your browser's own voice reads it with the words highlighted, speed and voice controls. tools.versedapps.com/listen

“im blinded everytime i watch my lectures pls moe hq staff see this”

Shipped: Every Versed page is dark by default, and the easy reader adds wider spacing, bigger type, a tint you choose and a line ruler for any text you paste.

“Easybib went so downhill.”

Shipped: A citation maker for APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago and IEEE from a link, DOI or ISBN. No ads, no account, no limit. tools.versedapps.com/cite

“Not knowing what to do next stops you; can't face tasks either.”

Shipped: Tiny steps. Type the scary task, get one next step on screen (never the whole list) and a five-minute timer. Done, next. Too big, split it. It remembers where you stopped. tools.versedapps.com/breaker

“my l1r5 is 11 and nett 9. Im having a dilemma right now”

Shipped: A grade calculator that picks your system from your browser (Singapore O-Level, GCSE, US GPA, ATAR, CBSE, Canada, IB, ECTS and more) and answers "what do I need on the final". tools.versedapps.com/grade

“If only there was one platform where I could use everything together efficiently”

Shipped, partly: All ten tools on one page, tools.versedapps.com, working offline once opened. A single dashboard with your countdown, tasks and timer together is not built yet.

“it takes you 90 seconds to log it...you're probably not logging it”

Shipped: In Versed Teach a note is three taps from a phone: Note, the student, one line with a tag. Dated and searchable. teach.versedapps.com

“Anytime we communicate home we need to document this internally”

Shipped: A parent-contact log per student with channel, summary and follow-up date, a daily accommodation tick sheet, and one student's record printed for a meeting.

“Whichever doesn't require students to pay.”

Shipped: Nothing on any Versed site asks a student for money. There is no card to enter anywhere.

“free tier is basically gutted now. $36/year just to study”

Not yet: Versed Learn, the flashcard app, still has a paywall on AI deck generation because that is the one thing that costs real money per use. A free monthly allowance, Quizlet import and export are next on the list. When it ships it will be on this page.