Everything a parent needs to turn a school spelling list into a week of practice that runs itself - and to see
exactly how it went.
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Multi-modal practice: write, type, say, pick, trace, or paper
The same word can be handwritten on screen, typed, spelled aloud, picked from look-alikes, traced, or
written on real paper and photographed. Each route exercises a different memory - recognition, recall and
production - and the plan mixes them across the week. On the classic home screen, one switchable
Smart practice tile carries every mode at once, so your child can swap between them
mid-session instead of being locked into one - and Look, hear & remember, Word Meanings and Word Parts
(Sound Parts for early years) are one tap away too, not just inside a plan slot. Photograph a printed
word-list handout by mistake and the app asks first, rather than recording it as a flawless, finished
attempt that never actually happened.
Benefit: a word met five different ways sticks far better than one drilled the same way five times.
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Look, hear & remember - meeting the word before being tested on it
Before any practice, each new word gets a card of its own: shown large, read aloud, and
the first time your child hears it, used in a sentence - so they meet it in context rather than as ten
letters to memorise. A homophone gets its sentence every time, because hearing "wait" never tells
you which word was meant. The part that catches people out is picked out in the word itself -
"👀 Look at the 'ght'" - named in words as well as colour, and the rule behind it is only
spelled out once your child has actually slipped on it, never guessed at. Younger children get the picture
hint alongside by default; you can add the meaning, or turn both off.
Benefit: nothing is marked, nothing is scored - it's the looking-and-listening step before the
testing.
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Real handwriting, with UK cursive tracing
Write it mode checks each handwritten word for spelling and letter formation - shape, reversals, spacing -
with genuine UK continuous-cursive tracing fonts for children who join their letters. Marking knows
whether they wrote with a finger, a stylus or a mouse, and if a letter is misread your child can say
"that's not what I wrote", or fix a single look-alike letter (u for v, m for n) with one tap. On iPhone
and Android, letters can appear on screen as they write.
Benefit: practice matches the Friday test, which is still written by hand.
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A weekly Learning plan, fully stocked
A ready-made week spreads Look, hear & remember, Pick it, Type it, Write it, Say it, Sound Parts, Word
Parts, Word Meanings, games, Paper practice and the Dictation test across the days that suit your child -
every day editable.
Benefit: you never have to plan what to practise, only change what you want.
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A printed practice pack, built from your child's own words
One tap on the child's card prints a week of screen-free practice personalised to them: a
look-cover-write-check sheet with the words due for revision first and the tricky part of each word picked
out, a crossword (or a word search for younger children) made from this week's list, a short paragraph to
write using four of the words, and Friday's test with the script on a cut-off strip for the grown-up -
sentences and homophone warnings included. Untick any page, print in black and white or colour.
Afterwards, photograph the finished test to have it marked, or tick the paragraph words off on screen, and
the results count toward the progress report like any other practice. Pages that show the spelling record
nothing. How the practice pack works →
Benefit: the same personalised practice on paper for the car, a grandparent's house or a no-screens
evening - and the results still come home to the app.
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Automatically schedule word lists - week by week, or fluid
Every list you add is scheduled into the Learning plan automatically, and you choose how the plan runs. A
Weekly rhythm gives one practice a day with games after and a "done for today". A
Fluid rhythm keeps the same plan without the daily wall - sessions unlock one after
another, so a child can do two in a row, or none today. Classic drops the plan entirely
and lets them pick a list and activity any time. Line up several weeks of lists in a queue and the plan
moves through them on its own, one list at a time.
Benefit: a school-week schedule for term time, a fluid pace for holidays or catch-up - one tap to
switch.
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Scaffolded help when they're stuck
A wrong answer never just shows the right one. Help arrives a step at a time - a flash of the word, or a
coached tip about the exact mistake, then just the tricky letters - and your child always gets one clean,
unaided first try. We call it the aid ladder.
Benefit: no dead ends, and no guessing how much help is too much.
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Adaptive difficulty
Spaced repetition brings each child's weakest words back automatically, wrong answers get harder or
gentler to match their stage, and the Skills Check picks the right National Curriculum year band on its
own.
Benefit: practice always meets your child where they are - never too easy, never too hard.
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AI picture hints for early spellers
Every early-years word gets its own memory picture, generated by AI and shown alongside the spelling - and
once any family unlocks a word's picture, every child gets it instantly from then on. A word can hold more
than one picture with a parent picking the best, one picture is shared between forms of a word (jump,
jumps, jumping), and the cost is shown before you spend, with a plain opt-out.
Benefit: a visual hook for children who can't yet read a written hint.
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A morphology-aware word database
Long words are hand-checked down to their real prefixes, roots and suffixes. "Disappointment" becomes dis
+ appoint + ment, and Word Parts has your child build it from the pieces, then spot what changes where
they join.
Benefit: 14 letters to memorise blind becomes 3 pieces that make sense.
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Sound Parts: sound boxes for early years
"Ship" is four letters but three sounds. The app says a word from your child's own list and they tap
letter tiles into sound boxes, one box per sound. Each tile says its sound, never its letter name, and
letters that make one sound share a tile. A wrong try keeps the boxes that were right, and the finished
word is read back sound by sound. Every split comes from how the word is said in UK English, never a
guess.
Benefit: phonics practice on the words they are actually learning this week.
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Word Meanings: the vocabulary half
Every other activity practises the letters; this one asks what the word means. Your child reads a clue and
taps the word it describes, then drops that word into a real sentence with a gap in it. The wrong answers
are their own other spelling words, so the choices are always on-level - and scored separately, so a
meaning they get wrong never counts against their spelling.
Benefit: a word they understand is a word with somewhere to hang its spelling.
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Audio in your child's English, every word heard in a sentence
Every word is voiced in the English your child's school uses - a British, American, Australian or Indian
English voice - and the first time your child hears it they hear it in its example sentence too - so a
word is met in context before it's spelled. Homophones (wait, weight) always come with their sentence, in
practice, in the Skills Check and in the dictation test alike.
Benefit: they spell the word you meant, not the one that sounds like it.
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AI Spelling Coach, personalised tips
Every mistake is classified into the real reason behind it - a sound mix-up, a look-alike letter, a
structure or a rule - and the coach explains that pattern using your child's own history, not generic
advice.
Benefit: "wrong again" becomes "oh, that's why" - a reason, not just a red cross.
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Games built from their own words, earned by practice
Balloon Pop, Word Search, Boggle, Letter Maze and more are drawn from your child's own tricky words, not a
generic word bank. Coins come only from spelling practice, a parent sets game prices and plays, and a
child can challenge a friend or sibling to beat their score on the same words.
Benefit: the games stay a treat that keeps the practice going, not the main event.
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Every way to build a list
Photograph the school sheet or a whole term's spelling log book, paste text, type words, pick a National
Curriculum preset (KS1 common exception words, KS2 statutory lists), generate an age-matched list on
any topic, or let Suggest from progress build one from your child's own tricky words.
Mastered lists can be hidden to keep the focus.
Benefit: setting up practice takes seconds, never longer than practising.
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A weekly spelling scheme for Years 3 to 6
A full school year of weekly lists that follow the National Curriculum's spelling rules (English Appendix
1): 36 weeks, each teaching one rule or ten statutory words, with a revision week every half term. Every
word is checked for UK spelling and for the sound the rule is about. Teachers queue a whole term for a
class, so each week starts on its own, and can reorder, edit or swap any week. Parents find it under
Weekly scheme in Browse lists. Years 3 to 6.
Why we built it →
Benefit: no school scheme? You still have a sensible list for every week.
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Add words by voice with Siri or Google Assistant
Generate an API key in your account, set up a shortcut once, and say "Hey Siri, add spellings to Maya" -
the words go straight into the right child's list, audio and hints included. Works with Siri Shortcuts,
Google Assistant or any automation tool.
Benefit: this week's words are in before the book bag is even unpacked.
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Every list, safety-checked and spelled their school's way
Every word added is screened for safety before your child ever practises it, then spell-checked against
the English that child's school uses - so an American spelling is only ever corrected for a child set to
UK English, and you're told when it happens. Anything else the checker questions is shown to you to keep
or remove rather than changed, because the checker is sometimes wrong and you know the list.
Benefit: peace of mind that what's in the list is what should be there.
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See what they'll hear: every sentence and clue, checked by you
After every save, each word's example sentence and crossword-style clue are shown to you before your child
hears them. Tap for a different one, or write your own for that list - your words are safety-checked like
every saved word, and a clue is never allowed to give the word away.
Benefit: a poor sentence is caught by you, not first met in your child's ear.
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Weekly or monthly progress emails, in plain English
An AI-written summary lands in your inbox with sessions and active days, accuracy, the tricky words, which
practice modes they used (recognition vs recall vs writing), games played and whether they used the coach.
Add a co-parent or teacher as an extra recipient, each with their own unsubscribe.
Benefit: you know how it's going without logging in and digging.
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The spelling patterns report
Tricky words are grouped under the rule behind them - the schwa they keep dropping, the y-to-i they miss -
across sound, look, structure and rule, with recurring slips named (letters swapped, dropped, added) and
how a long word is built shown alongside.
Benefit: "got necessary wrong four times" becomes the one thing to teach next.
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National Curriculum tracking, done for you (English Appendix 1)
Word lists and progress are mapped onto the National Curriculum's own spelling rules, year by year, with
pattern badges that only count unaided, written spelling - and a "practise this" list one tap from any
statement. A "working towards" card says exactly what's left for each rule to read Secure, and starts the
practice that counts. Families outside the English curriculum can switch the year framing off and keep
everything else. How the tracking works →
Benefit: you see exactly which rules are secure, not just a percentage score.
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Handwriting formation and writing reports
A per-letter Formation report shows which letters need work - shape, reversals, proportion - and the
Writing report for older children profiles joins, slant, baseline, spacing and legibility, from on-screen
writing and photographed paper alike.
Benefit: handwriting improves where it counts, not just "neater please".
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The Skills Check
A feature-based spelling inventory - typed, on paper, or written on screen - works out which patterns your
child has mastered and which to work on next, then builds the focus list automatically. 10 credits a
check, pitched at their school year. Leave one halfway and it waits to be picked up - or cancelled - from
the child's card.
Benefit: start from what's actually tricky, not from a generic level.
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The three-week checkpoint: remember it, and use it
Every three weeks the app offers a short checkpoint on the spelling patterns your child has practised. For
each pattern they spell 2 words they've practised (can they still spell them?) and 2 hand-chosen words
they've never been given that use the same pattern (can they apply it?). One try each, no hints, typed or
written on screen as usual - and it can always wait until tomorrow. A mistake only counts against a
pattern if the mistake is in that pattern. You see "remembered" and "applied" separately, and each pattern
comes back into practice as much as it needs; your child only sees what they got right.
Why we built it →
Benefit: you find out whether they learned the pattern, not just the list - an idea from
Education Beyond.
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Practice history - review, don't just trust
Every spelling attempt your child has made is listed, most recent first, with a checkbox next to it -
including a Writing view that replays their handwriting stroke by stroke or shows the photographed page.
Uncheck one to exclude it from the accuracy report, the tricky-word list and the coach's signals - useful
when a sibling picked up the tablet, handwriting recognition misread a letter, or a paper photo got
resubmitted. Nothing is ever changed or deleted - only whether it counts, and only an adult with edit
access can decide that, never the child's own login.
Benefit: an odd session can't quietly drag down a report you're actually relying on.
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No black box
Every automatic choice the app makes about a child's practice is written to a plain-English log you can
read, every AI mark is shown in an editable review before it's saved, and every piece of AI text carries a
"Report this" link that a real person reads.
Benefit: you can always see what the app decided, and overrule it.
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UK, US, Australian or Indian English - per child
Adding a child asks "Which English does their school use?", and their word lists then save exactly as you
type them - colour or color, favourite or favorite. It's per child,
not per account, so a tutor can have a pupil in Surrey and a pupil in San Diego; teachers set it once for
a whole class. UK English stays the default and nothing changed for families already using it. Words and
example sentences are spoken in that child's accent; the wording of the sentences and clues is still
British English for every child, and locale-matched wording is the next piece of work.
Benefit: they're tested on the spelling their school actually taught them.
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Practice goal and practice modes
Answer "what does this child need right now?" - stretch, balanced or confidence - and switch each practice
mode on or off per child: Pick it, Type it, Write it (handwriting) and Say it (voice). What's off never
appears on their screen.
Benefit: a reluctant writer isn't forced into Write it, a fluent one isn't stuck on Pick it.
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Hints and help when stuck
Allow or hide each hint pill - Picture, Definition, Spelling hint, Synonyms - and the Flash word button
mode by mode. "Help when stuck" sets the scaffolded help style (show the word, or coach it) and pace
(quick, standard, or wrestle with it), plus how many test retries a child gets.
Benefit: exactly as much help as this child needs this week, and no more.
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Writing pad and handwriting settings
Ruled lines and faint letters to trace on the early-years writing pad, a cursive toggle, Handwriting
analysis on or off (it drives the Formation report), and Gentler handwriting messages for a child who
needs kinder marking.
Benefit: the pad matches how their school teaches writing, and how they feel about it.
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Reading and hearing settings
Reading font (Standard, Clear, OpenDyslexic), text size, letter spacing (Standard, Relaxed, Roomy), a
colour overlay (cream, blue, rose, mint, grey) with a live preview, speech speed (Normal, Slow, Slower)
and Show pictures automatically for early readers - all per child.
Benefit: a dyslexic child reads the word the way it works for them.
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Safety and sharing controls
An unlock code (parent PIN) on the parent menu, a child's own device login so they can practise alone,
leaderboard opt-in with a display name you choose, a daily practice reminder on the phone or tablet at the
time and days you pick (in the app), and practice reminder emails to every linked parent after a set
number of quiet days.
Benefit: independence for the child, oversight for the grown-ups.
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Household and day-to-day controls
Game prices & plays for the whole household, "give games free today" and "adjust today's practice" on
each child's plan, weekly or monthly progress email frequency, extra report recipients, and a Teacher /
tutor role that unlocks class tools. Account settings shows your AI credits - what's left, where each
batch came from (automatic picture hints included) and when it runs out - and leads with reviewing usage
and claiming any free credits before pointing you at a purchase; a pack can be bought in the app if you
need more.
Benefit: lighten a bad day or reward a good one, without touching the plan.
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Multiple profiles, per-profile controls
One account holds every child, each with their own lists, plan, settings and report - and an adult
learning for themselves gets a profile of their own. Controls work per profile behind an optional parent
PIN - which practice modes are on, hints, marking gentleness, low-pressure games - so one sibling's setup
never leaks into another's.
Benefit: the app fits each learner, not the household average.
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UK GDPR and Children's Code compliant
Built to the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018 and the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code.
Parent-managed accounts only - children can't self-register - photos and voice are processed in the moment
and discarded, and you get one-tap export and one-tap delete.
Benefit: privacy you can check, not just a promise.
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Data never used for AI training
The AI generates hints, sentences and marks handwriting, but nothing your child writes, says or
photographs is ever used to train anyone's models - enforced in the configuration with every provider, not
just promised.
Benefit: your child's work stays your child's work.
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DPIA available
A Data Protection Impact Assessment, a Children's Code self-assessment and a Record of Processing
Activities are kept up to date and shared with parents, schools or regulators on request.
Benefit: a school's data-protection questions are already answered.
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AI transparency, published
A public register lists every AI provider the app uses, what each one receives and its training stance,
re-reviewed on a schedule - see the
AI providers & your data page.
Benefit: you can see exactly who processes what, any time.
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Accessible by design
One focus outline everywhere, genuinely readable contrast, reduced motion honoured across the app,
VoiceOver and Voice Control labelling, a Screen-reader friendly games toggle, and a Low-pressure mode that
removes timers, streaks and leaderboard prompts from the games - all per child. See the
accessibility statement.
Benefit: the standard is the floor here, not the finish line.
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Works everywhere, one account
Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android, plus the same account in any browser on Windows, macOS, Linux or
ChromeOS, with nothing to install - the same children, lists, reports and per-child settings wherever you
sign in, with a child login option so they can practise on their own device.
Benefit: practise on the tablet, check the report on your phone.
