College Tool
Plan college with your GI Bill®, DEA benefits.
College Tool is a free app that does the GI Bill and VA education-benefit math for military families: the decisions that actually trip families up, like in-state versus out-of-state, transferring benefits to a child or keeping them, and the order to use them in, which can change the total by thousands. It was built from a real need, a military family doing this math by hand, not modeled on other apps. The founder built what it should be and went looking for anything similar only afterward, and found nothing that works quite like it. The proof it is real: it shows its work, every rate and rule linked to its official VA source so a family can verify it. Built by a retired Air Force family, and the founder completed the VA's School Certifying Official training in 2026. Free for five states, with an optional upgrade. https://wegotyou1776.com
Features
- The Phase Approach maps your benefits in the order that gets the most.
- No account. No login. No tracking. No analytics. No telemetry. The app isn’t built to take your information – it’s built to run your planning on your own device. We respect your privacy so much that we built the app not to need anything about you in the first place
- No ads. Not now, not later.
- No purchases buried inside, the only thing you can buy is the $17.99 premium unlock – nothing else.
Use Cases
- Veterans deciding what to do with the Post-9/11 GI Bill - use it yourself, transfer it to a child, or split it, and see how the order changes the total
- Students of military parents with Transferred Education Benefits (TEB) - see what benefits you qualify for and how to combine them before you pick a school
- Active-duty planning for school - run in-state vs out-of-state and see what you keep before you commit
- Teachers, counselors, and school advisors - help a military student map their benefits before they meet the certifying official
- School certifying officials and financial-aid staff - point families to a free tool that shows its work and links every rule to its VA source
Comments
This did not start as a business. It started with a father at a table, planning a few years ahead for his own family, working the college benefits math by hand. He wanted to know the real answer. Not a brochure answer, the real one. If his daughter used the Post-9/11 GI Bill®, what would housing actually cover at one school versus another. What happened if she changed schools, or did a year overseas. The deeper he looked, the more he saw how many education benefits exist across different family situations, each with its own rules, and how the rules talk past each other. So he did what a lot of military parents end up doing. He worked it out on paper. He lined up the programs side by side and tried to see them as one plan instead of four separate ones. It took a while. And when he finished, the thing that stuck with him was not the answer. It was how hard it had been to get to it, and how easy it would be for a family to leave something on the table just because nobody put the pieces in the same place. He figured someone had already solved this. He went to the App Store and looked. He searched the way a tired parent searches, plain words, late at night. Post-9/11 GI Bill planning. Military family college planning. He found calculators that did one piece. He found pages that explained a single benefit. He did not find anything that put them into one ordered plan and showed what the order did to the total. That bothered him more than it should have. These benefits were earned. Families had already paid for them in time away, in moves, in deployments. The information was out there, but it was scattered across agencies and school offices and forum threads, and the people who needed it most were the ones with the least time to chase it down. So he wrote it down. Not to change any rule and not to promise anyone a bigger number. Just to take what a family already has and lay it out clearly, in the order that works, inside the rules that already exist. He wrote it for his own daughter first, the plain-language guide that became the free book. Then he turned the method into the app, so any military family could run it without doing the math by hand. That is the whole story. A parent who could not find the tool he needed, so he wrote the guide and built the app, and decided not to keep either to himself.
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This did not start as a business. It started with a father at a table, planning a few years ahead for his own family, working the college benefits math by hand. He wanted to know the real answer. Not a brochure answer, the real one. If his daughter used the Post-9/11 GI Bill®, what would housing actually cover at one school versus another. What happened if she changed schools, or did a year overseas. The deeper he looked, the more he saw how many education benefits exist across different family situations, each with its own rules, and how the rules talk past each other. So he did what a lot of military parents end up doing. He worked it out on paper. He lined up the programs side by side and tried to see them as one plan instead of four separate ones. It took a while. And when he finished, the thing that stuck with him was not the answer. It was how hard it had been to get to it, and how easy it would be for a family to leave something on the table just because nobody put the pieces in the same place. He figured someone had already solved this. He went to the App Store and looked. He searched the way a tired parent searches, plain words, late at night. Post-9/11 GI Bill planning. Military family college planning. He found calculators that did one piece. He found pages that explained a single benefit. He did not find anything that put them into one ordered plan and showed what the order did to the total. That bothered him more than it should have. These benefits were earned. Families had already paid for them in time away, in moves, in deployments. The information was out there, but it was scattered across agencies and school offices and forum threads, and the people who needed it most were the ones with the least time to chase it down. So he wrote it down. Not to change any rule and not to promise anyone a bigger number. Just to take what a family already has and lay it out clearly, in the order that works, inside the rules that already exist. He wrote it for his own daughter first, the plain-language guide that became the free book. Then he turned the method into the app, so any military family could run it without doing the math by hand. That is the whole story. A parent who could not find the tool he needed, so he wrote the guide and built the app, and decided not to keep either to himself.
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