BemaThe college application process, finally organized.
Bema puts the Common App, essays, deadlines, recommenders and financial aid in one workspace. Parents get a clear view of how it’s going, without taking the pen.
Free during the beta. Works in your browser and on iPhone, with one account.
Applying to college has become a project nobody is managing.
The requirements hide
Supplements, honors forms and school portals often show up only after you submit, when a missed step is hardest to catch.
Nobody knows how much is left
Essays for a dozen schools, word limits, recommenders who haven’t sent yet. It lives in tabs, notes and memory.
Parents are on the outside
The Common App doesn’t give parents their own view, so every update becomes a question at dinner.
Everything the application needs, in the order it needs it.
Write it in Bema, get it right with help, then copy it into the Common App. Bema keeps track of the rest.
A Common App workspace that knows the limits
All six sections, with the real character and word limits enforced as you type. When an answer is ready, copy it straight into the Common App.
- Plain-English help on the questions people get stuck on
- AI proofreading and tightening you accept or reject
- A completeness map, not a grade
Tighten: cuts words only, never adds new ones.
Essays with a coach that helps, without writing it for you
The coach asks questions, points at what’s working and what isn’t, and fixes mechanics in sentences you already wrote. The words stay yours.
- Every essay and supplement, with words left to write
- Parent comments and suggestions shown as tracked changes
- You decide what to accept
The first time I fixed my grandmother’s radio, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I took it apart on the table in the kitchen on the kitchen table.
Deadlines, with the steps nobody mentions
Add a school and Bema lists what it asks for, including portals, honors forms and the tasks that come after you hit submit.
- A submit-by date two days before each deadline
- Reminders at 7, 3 and 1 day out
- A recommender tracker with a ready-made reminder note
Financial aid, step by step
A FAFSA planner that tracks each contributor, guidance for separated families, grants, scholarships, and a Decision Center to compare what each school actually costs.
- Built for families where parents live apart
- Never asks for Social Security numbers or FSA IDs
- Net cost side by side when the offers arrive
For separated families, a few plain questions work out who counts as the FAFSA parent, and whether a school also wants the CSS Profile.
What Bema will never do
Families trust us with the most personal year of high school. These are the lines we don’t cross.
Write your essay
Not a paragraph, not an opening line, not an “example.” It’s built into how the AI is set up.
Submit anything, or ask for your Common App login
You submit on the Common App and each school’s site. Bema helps you get there ready.
Show a parent anything without the student’s say-so
A parent sees nothing until the student accepts the invitation, and the student can remove access any time.
Store Social Security numbers or FSA IDs
Bema tells you when to have them ready. It refuses to keep them.
On the laptop and on the phone. Same work.
Bema runs in your browser and as an iPhone app. Both use the same account, so an essay you edit at school is on your phone on the bus home.
On the web
Sign in at app.getbemaai.com from any computer. Nothing to install.
On iPhone
The Bema app is in beta on TestFlight now, with the App Store to follow.
Start with one school and one deadline.
Set up takes about two minutes. Invite a parent whenever you’re ready, or not at all.