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CalmCubs
When a feeling gets big, here's what you can do — gentle calm-down tools with Cozy the bear cub and friends, for grades 1–2.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 15 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
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Meet the cast
CalmCubs is a little band of animal friends who share their calm-down tools — breathing, squeezing and letting go, and pausing. Cozy the bear cub is the hero; the cast are Cozy's friends who each know one tool. Big feelings are normal, every tool is a friend, and there's never a wrong way — and when a feeling is really big, you can always tell a grown-up you trust.
Cozy
Pick the right tool — a bear cub who helps you choose a calm-down tool when a feeling gets big.
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Breeze
Breathing — a sloth who breathes slow so you can breathe along and calm your body.
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Squish
Squeeze and let go — an octopus who tightens then relaxes, loosening tight, tense feelings.
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Mellow
Pause and settle — a koala who goes still and counts down before deciding what to do.
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What's inside
Learning goal
When a feeling gets big, here's what you can do — gentle calm-down tools with Cozy the bear cub and friends, for grades 1–2.
How CalmCubs handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
For you, the grown-up
The grown-up side of CalmCubs on Spark & Whetstone, our free site for grown-ups: Feelings at Our Table. The calm-down half is theirs; the staying-calm-beside-them half is yours.
CalmCubs runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
CalmCubs is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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