About the games
Free phonics, reading and maths games for children from about 4 to 8. Built by a mom for her two daughters, Sophia (7) and Cora (5), and shared for free with every family.
What's inside
| Reading games | Six phonics levels, from short vowels to bossy r: build a word you hear, read a word and find its picture, rhymes, sight words (all 300 Fry words) and Word Monster flash cards. |
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| Letter games | For children just starting: hear each letter's sound, find the letter for a sound, match big and little letters, and pick the picture that starts with a sound. |
| Little Books | 30 illustrated stories, from three-word sentences to chapter books, each readable with the sounds learned so far, and a detective question at the end. |
| Maths | Block Math (adding, taking away, times, sharing), Ten Drop, six Math Arcade games, and Math Mountain, a climb from counting all the way to the maths behind AI. |
| Paintbrush Island | A 3D island that has lost its colour: read words to paint it back. |
| Rewards | Stars for right answers, a 180-sticker book with a party for every full page, trophies and gold medals. Children collect; they are never ranked against each other. |
How it teaches
- Phonics first. Words come in the order most phonics programmes teach them, and every book uses only patterns a child has met.
- No guessing. In Read It, the pictures stay hidden until the word is read, so children decode instead of guessing from pictures.
- One friendly voice. Every word and instruction is spoken in the same warm voice, generated with AI (ElevenLabs) so it sounds natural rather than like your device's robot voice. If a word ever sounds wrong, tap the bug button in the game to tell us and we'll fix it.
- Small steps, many wins. Short rounds, no timers on reading, and help when a child gets stuck.
For grown-ups
- Play without an account. Progress stays on the device.
- Or sign in with Google to keep each child's progress on every device and see a dashboard of time played, words and books read, maths and what to practise next. Children never get accounts; a grown-up adds them by first name or nickname.
- Private by design. No ads. You can download or delete everything at any time. Read the privacy policy and terms.
- Tell us what to fix. Every screen has a bug button for feedback, and every report is read.
Who made this
Sophia and Cora's mom, Amy Sterling, is a neuroscience researcher at Princeton University. She built the games for her daughters, and the girls are instrumental in designing and testing new features. If your kids have requests or ideas, hit us up on X: @amyneurons.
How it's made
The games were built in a few months with an AI coding assistant, Claude, and they change regularly as families ask for things: more silly stickers, better books, a sticker-book party. The pictures are painted with AI image models and checked by hand, and the voice is made with ElevenLabs.
See everything that has changed on the What's new page.