Frap is short for Family Recreation Activity Passport.
Two words sharing a middle: frap and app, joined at the “ap”. The colours in the mark are the joint — neutral where only frap lives, coloured where both words overlap, indigo where only app does.
Why a passport rather than a planner.
Plenty of apps will help you schedule a Tuesday. A calendar is free and already on your phone.
What no one keeps is the other half — the record of what actually happened. Four years of piano, two seasons in goal, a term of chess someone quietly got very good at. It exists in a parent’s memory, in a WhatsApp thread with an instructor, and nowhere else. By the time it would be useful, most of it is gone.
So Frap writes it down, and the writing is the whole discipline of the product. An hour is created only when the instructor who taught it closes out the session. Nobody can edit it afterwards — not the instructor, not the parent, not us. That constraint is why the record is worth anything at all.
We start in Toronto, in six disciplines, with maths and biology tutoring alongside. Small on purpose: a marketplace is only as good as the people in it, and we would rather verify twenty instructors properly than list two hundred we have not met.