Questions

Anyone learning to read. There's no age it starts at and none it stops at — the first book assumes no letter knowledge whatsoever, so a complete beginner of any age can open it and get somewhere.

That's who it's for. Every letter is drawn as something that starts with it, so the shapes carry the clue. The sounds come later, and they come from reading rather than before it.

Because rewards teach a child to finish the page rather than read it, and because this is meant to feel like a book, not a game. There's nothing here designed to pull a child back for one more go. More on that.

No. No accounts, no analytics, no ads, no tracking, and nothing about their reading leaves the device — it isn't even saved on it. The privacy page is short and worth a minute.

Only the first time. After that everything — books, letters, sounds — is kept on the device and it works on a plane, in a car, anywhere.

On iPhone: open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, Chrome will offer to install it. It then opens full screen with no browser bar.

Letter names don't help a child blend a word; sounds do. So the app only ever plays the sound — never the name.

Conor, Angela's son — the first person to use the first iteration of this app. Every letter sound is a real recording rather than a synthetic voice, because prereaders listen very closely to how a sound is actually made.

It's Andika, a typeface designed for people learning to read, and the font USAID's guidance on early reading materials recommends for beginning readers. The letters a child reads are always in it, so easily-muddled shapes like b, d, p and q stay clearly distinct. More on accessibility.

It's the reason the background scenes are so faint. A picture a child can read is a picture they don't have to read the word for. If your child is guessing from the scene rather than the letters, tell us — that scene is too strong, and we'll fade it.

Yes — the print-at-home page has the alphabet and the first words as picture-letters on paper, free to print at home or for a classroom. On paper the pictures don't fade, so it's the first step of the idea rather than all of it, but a child can absolutely read their first word from a printed sheet.

Yes, and there are no in-app purchases. If that ever changes, the terms will say so first.

Please do. No permission needed, no accounts to set up, nothing to sign.

Yes — there are twenty-five now, across five levels, and more are being written. If there's a word family your child needs, say so.