Light LearningMost learning apps teach a subject. This one teaches your child's syllabus — the strands, the grade names and the exams their own school uses — and it does it without an account, without a connection, and without collecting anything about them.
Six national curricula, in their own words
A child in Lagos gets NERDC strands, Nigerian grade names and the exams Nigeria actually sits. A child in Calgary gets the Alberta programme of studies. Not one syllabus with the labels swapped: 5,541 topics, written per country.
See every topic, country by country
It goes all the way to Grade 12
Creche to school-leaving, ages three to eighteen. Counting, letters and shapes at one end; quadratics, Pythagoras, past papers and the leaving exams at the other. A child does not need a different app when they turn nine.
It works out what to teach next
An optional starting check of about a dozen questions places a child on each subject, and from then on the app picks the next topic from what they have actually answered. It aims at the level where roughly five answers in six are right, because that is where children learn fastest and stop least. Every recommendation says why it was chosen.
A child can also work above their year in one subject and below it in another. Nothing is locked.
There is no server
Not an offline mode. There is no account, no sign-in, no analytics and no network code in the app that could send anything anywhere. It runs in flight mode on a plane with no signal, which is also the reason it collects nothing: there is nowhere for it to go.
Work, names and certificates stay on the device.
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Accessibility is never sold
High contrast, calm mode, plain language, reduce motion and read-aloud are in the free plan, permanently. Charging for them would charge disabled children more than everybody else.
A report you can argue with
Time inside lessons rather than time with the app open. Questions answered and how many were right first time. Accuracy by subject, each figure shown with the number of questions it came from, so you can tell 80% of five from 80% of fifty.
Certificates worth earning
Every topic in a grade has to be mastered, not attempted, so a certificate cannot be collected by tapping through. It carries the child's name, the full name of the curriculum completed and the real number of topics. Printable at A4.
What it costs
| Price | $4.99 a month, or $44.99 a year in Canadian dollars |
|---|---|
| Ages | 3 to 18, creche to Grade 12 |
| Curricula | Six, each with its own grade names, subjects and exams |
| Activities | 128,287, counted by a script rather than estimated |
| Account | None. There is nothing to sign up for |
| Works with no internet | Completely |
| Data collected about your child | None |
| Advertising | None, on either plan |
| Accessibility behind the paywall | Never |
| Devices | iPhone and iPad. Android is built and coming to Google Play |
Who it is for
- A parent who wants their child working on their own school's syllabus, not a generic one.
- A family that moves between countries, or teaches more than one curriculum at home.
- Anybody who would rather their child's schoolwork not be uploaded anywhere.
- A child who needs high contrast, calm mode or read-aloud, and should not be charged extra for it.