College Tool
Plan around your GI Bill®
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
College Tool is free to download and use. Map your VA education benefits, see every rate linked to its VA source, and find the order that gets your family the most.
College Tool is a free app that shows a military family how the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Chapter 35 DEA, the Fry Scholarship and the Yellow Ribbon Program work together, and what the order of use changes.
The order a family uses its VA education benefits in can change the total by thousands of dollars. College Tool maps that order, phase by phase, across a real college plan: stateside, overseas, or both in sequence. And it shows its work. Every rate in College Tool points back to its official VA source, so a family can check it and do the math themselves.
REAL HOUSING MATH
The GI Bill housing allowance (the BAH-based monthly housing allowance, or MHA) runs off the school's zip code, on currently published rates. A cost-of-living estimator sits beside it, with rent, food, transportation, utilities and the rest, so a family can see whether the housing allowance covers real living costs before committing to a school.
SCHOOL SEARCH
Browse any state, or type a school, a city, or the short name families actually use: FSU, UGA, Ole Miss. Every VA-approved school in the list carries its housing figure, its Yellow Ribbon participation, and any VA caution flag, with a link to that school on the VA Comparison Tool.
BUILT FOR MILITARY FAMILIES
Service members deciding whether to transfer the Post-9/11 GI Bill to a spouse or child, military spouses and dependents using transferred benefits, children of the fallen on the Fry Scholarship, and families with Chapter 35 DEA. The app handles the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Chapter 35 DEA, the Fry Scholarship and the Yellow Ribbon Program, plus transferred months and your own scholarships on top.
FREE, PERMANENTLY
- College Tool is free to download and use with no account, and five states are fully searchable free, permanently, with no trial and no expiration.
- The GI Bill and Fry Scholarship math, transferred GI Bill benefits, and your own scholarships, for Georgia, Kentucky, Colorado, South Carolina and Oklahoma.
- The cost-of-living estimator, school search in those five states, and a printable worksheet for a School Certifying Official.
- Every figure linked to its official VA source.
- A free tier, not a trial. No payment, no expiration.
OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION, $17.99 A YEAR
- The phase approach: see how your benefits combine in sequence, the method we have not found offered anywhere else.
- Every state and the top 50 overseas options, all compiled so you are not researching each rate by hand.
- Chapter 35 (DEA) benefits.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
College Tool has no account, no login, no analytics and no tracking, and what a family types into the app stays on the device.
Independent planning tool from We Got You 1776, LLC. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Defense. Not financial, legal, tax, or benefits advice. GI Bill is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Subscription terms: The optional subscription is $17.99 per year. You will be charged $17.99 at purchase and $17.99 each year thereafter unless you cancel. It provides twelve months of access and auto-renews at the end of each period unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. There is no introductory free-trial period; billing begins at purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple App Store. Manage or cancel anytime in your store account settings.
Terms of Use: https://terms.wegotyou1776.com
Privacy Policy: https://privacy.wegotyou1776.com
Version 1.1.0
- Subscribe is easy to find: a Subscribe button in the header and on the About screen, plus Restore Purchases for a new phone or a reinstall.
- School search: browse any state, or type the short name families use (FSU, UGA, Ole Miss).
- Housing figures checked school by school against the VA's own data, with 75 newly VA-approved schools added and 20 that lost approval removed.
- Chapter 35 (DEA) rates corrected to the VA's current figures, and the October 1 rates ride along so they take effect on their own.
- The app is called College Tool everywhere.
- A new app icon.
- Terms of Service and Privacy Policy open the live pages.
- The Branch and Study Abroad card opens cleanly and closes with one tap.
The developer, We Got You 1776 LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- We Got You 1776 LLC
- Size
- 12.6 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full planner, one year $17.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 We Got You 1776, LLC
