Built for parents, by parents
Learning apps for big firsts.
Thirteen calm learning apps, from first words to first typing. Twelve are free. No ads, no subscriptions, nothing built to hook them.
Words is free to start; $9.99 US once unlocks all its words and phrases.
Words
ABCs
Numbers
Counting
Puzzles
Bus
Patterns
Tidy
Art
Reading
Conversations
Typing
MapsThirteen apps. One calm approach.
Each does one thing well, with real pictures and friendly voices. Pick whatever catches their eye today.
The English alphabet one letter at a time: its sound, both forms, and familiar pictures.
Six gentle activities for numbers 1 to 10, spoken in eight languages.
Count 1 to 100 in five picture scenes, every number spoken in nine languages.
Match, build, and sort forty animals across five illustrated worlds. No reading needed.
Copy, finish, and fill repeating patterns with fifteen performers on a wooden stage.
A painted bus that plays its tune at every tap. Fill it up, ride to places around the world, from morning to night.
A wall of 100 real artworks from all over the world, oldest first. Each tap turns paper into paint.
142 free phonics lessons: hear a sound, build a word, read together.
Sixty short spoken conversations from a child’s day, with a pause for their answer. In English, Spanish, and Korean.
Untimed typing on a real keyboard, from a first key to messages, in nine languages.
A painted world map of countries, cities, and landmarks, with a short story for each.
Which one first?
Start where your child is.
Roughly, by age. You beside them matters more than the pick.
Birth to 2
Words, held by you: a picture, a word, your voice.
2 to 3
First phrases, short back-and-forth chats, and calm play with animals, tidy-ups, paintings, numbers, and letters.
3 to 5
Letter sounds, counting to 100, patterns, real art to uncover, longer conversations, first reading lessons, and a map to wonder at.
5 and up
Reading to about seven, typing for any beginner, and a world to explore.
Calm by design.
No ads, ever.
Not in the free apps, not in Words, not later.
No subscriptions.
Twelve are free. Words is one purchase that stays yours.
Nothing built to hook them.
No streaks, no timers, no scores. The activity, then real life.
Made by two parents.
First for our own daughters, then for yours. Our story
Good to know.
- Are they really free?
- Twelve of the thirteen, completely. Their First Words includes 75 words and 35 phrases free; $9.99 US once unlocks all 1,000+ words and 500+ phrases.
- Do we need an account?
- No. Words and Typing offer an optional sign-in to keep progress across devices. Everything else stays on your device.
- Do they work offline?
- The mobile apps do, audio included. In the browser, ABCs, Counting, and Conversations keep what they have loaded, and the others need a connection.