Learn new words, one cozy spark at a time

A breathtakingly cozy picture-book world where kids 5–8 learn new words through real, systematic phonics.

Real phonics. No ads, no tracking, never punishing. Works offline.

iOS now · Android coming later

How it feels

Answer. Spark. Grow.

Every question ends in a spark — the loop your child looks forward to.

1

Answer a question

Short, playful phonics questions — tap the picture or word that matches the sound.

2

Earn a spark

Every answer earns a spark — right or wrong, kindly and without exception.

3

Feed your creature

Sparks feed your creature — it hatches and grows from Egg to Sprout to Fledgling to Grown.

Real phonics, in order

A cozy world, but the word learning underneath is genuinely systematic

Every sound is taught in sequence and reinforced with spaced repetition — nothing shown before it's earned.

A 42-sound trail

Every sound of English, introduced one at a time in a carefully sequenced trail.

CVC words first

Simple consonant-vowel-consonant words build the foundation before anything harder.

Digraphs & tricky words

Sounds like "sh" and "th," plus common irregular words, taught explicitly — not guessed at.

Decodable stories

Short stories built entirely from sounds already taught, so every page is genuinely readable.

The taught-sounds-only guarantee: every word your child ever reads in WordNest Jr uses only sounds they've already learned.

Never punishing

The kindness promise

Learning new words is hard enough — the app should never make it feel worse.

No timers
No failure states
No lives to lose
Streaks pause, never reset
Creatures never regress
Every answer earns a spark

No ads. No tracking. Works offline.

Zero third-party ad or analytics SDKs COPPA-honest: no child personal data collected Works fully offline

Everything your child does in WordNest Jr stays on the device. There's nothing to track, because we don't track anything.

For parents

Built for you, too

A parent dashboard shows weekly progress — sounds learned, words read, stories finished — so you always know where your child is on the trail.

  • Weekly progress summary in the parent dashboard
  • Settings and subscription sit behind a simple parent gate
  • One honest subscription — no upsells, no in-app purchases scattered around
$5.99/month
7-day full free trial

Cancel anytime. No fake urgency, no countdowns — just full access to try it with your child first.