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Optima School - Cross-Platform Learning App for Ukraine’s Largest Online School

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Optima School is Ukraine’s largest online general education school, giving children access to quality education wherever they live.

They needed a game-based learning app that runs smoothly on any device, keeps children engaged, and lets parents easily buy access to paid courses.

Our team developed a cross-platform Unity app for Android, iOS, and the web, with gamified lessons, flexible lesson purchases, and an admin panel the school uses to launch new courses on its own.

Services

  • Custom Software
  • Website
  • Mobile App

Industry

  • Education

Location

  • Ukraine
Our client

About the company

Optima School is Ukraine’s first and largest online general education school. It offers a wide range of courses, so every student can find a program that fits their needs.

Optima relies on modern technology to make distance learning effective and genuinely engaging for children.

Project goal

About the project

Optima wanted a learning app where children study through games. Parents register, add their children, and choose courses. Some courses are free. Others are free up to a certain lesson, and the rest can be unlocked with a purchase.

Our task was to develop, optimize, and maintain the app across all platforms. This included moving the product to Unity so a single codebase could serve mobile devices and web browsers. Optima provided the product vision and UI/UX design. Our team handled the technical side, from development to deployment.

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Challenges

1

Smooth performance on any device

Many families use older or budget smartphones. The app had to run without lags or freezes, even on less powerful devices.

2

One experience on every platform

Children study on phones, tablets, and computers. The app had to look and work the same everywhere, so we replaced the outdated PWA-based web version.

3

Developing a live product

The app already had active users. New features had to ship while the existing product kept running without disrupting lessons.

4

Content management without developers

The school needed to create courses, manage users, and track statistics on its own, without involving developers in every update.

5

Readiness for new markets

Optima planned to reach students beyond Ukraine. The app needed an architecture that makes adding new languages simple, starting with Ukrainian, Polish, and English.

Our process for the Mobile & Web Application

Optima defined the business goals and provided the design. Our team advised on key technical decisions, including the move to Unity.

Unity offered better animation quality, stable performance, and room to grow onto new platforms.

We worked from the client’s technical specifications. We first released an MVP with the core functionality and the main course.

After launch, we kept extending the product with new features, such as paid courses and push notifications.

One developer built the Unity app for Android, iOS, and the web. Another built the Laravel backend that powers user progress, course content, and the admin panel.

The admin panel lets the Optima team create a course, for example, Mathematics, and fill it with lessons. Once published, the course appears in the app for children to play.

We also added push notifications to the panel, so the school can tell users about new courses or discounts.

Our QA engineer manually tested every release on iOS, Android, and browsers (Chrome, Safari), as well as the admin panel.

We paid special attention to device compatibility and animation stability.

Our DevOps specialist set up CI/CD pipelines for the live product. Updates now reach users reliably, without interrupting their learning.

Key features

Cross-platform Unity app

One app for Android, iOS, and web browsers. The web version now also runs on Unity instead of the old PWA, so users get the same quality everywhere.

Game-based learning

Lessons are built as games with sound effects and animations. Optima-created animated characters guide children through each lesson. We brought them to life with lip movements synced to the voice-over and natural blinking.

Flexible lesson purchases

Instead of a subscription, users buy lesson packages for permanent access. For example, users can unlock a 100-lesson course in blocks of 25 lessons or all at once. Free introductory lessons lead naturally into paid content. We chose this model with the client because it's simpler and more convenient for parents than a subscription.

Admin panel (Laravel)

Manage users, collect statistics, and create and fill courses that appear in the app.

Push notifications

iOS and Android notifications let the school inform parents and students about new courses, updates, and discounts.

Multi-language support

The app switches between Ukrainian, Polish, and English based on the device language or user location. All interface text is stored in one table, so the client can translate it and add new languages easily.

Results

A stable app on all key platforms

The product runs on Unity across Android, iOS and the web, including older and less powerful devices.

An active learning platform

Children use the app every day on phones, tablets and computers. They complete free and paid courses, and new courses keep being added.

A working monetization model

Lesson-package purchases let Optima earn from its educational content in a way that is clear to parents.

Independent content management

The Optima team creates and publishes new courses on its own through the admin panel.

Reliable updates

CI/CD pipelines let new features reach users smoothly, without disrupting the learning process.

Technologies and tools

Unity
Laravel
React
MySQL
Docker
CI/CD pipelines
Firebase (Notifications)
Sms Notifications
PWA (previous web version)

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Team

Project Manager

Solution Architect

Backend Developer

Unity Developer

QA Engineer

Devops

Value delivered by SoloWay

01 04

Learning on any device

The app runs smoothly on new and older smartphones, tablets and web browsers, so more children can study without technical barriers.

02 04

Faster course launches

With the self-serve admin panel, the Optima team creates and publishes new courses on its own. They no longer wait for developers.

03 04

Stable and frequent releases

Automated CI/CD pipelines deliver updates to users reliably, without interrupting the learning process.

04 04

A foundation for growth

The Unity-based architecture and multi-language support let the product expand to new markets and platforms, from desktop to VR and game consoles.

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