Special Interest
ChronoQuest
Players use a Chrono Device to visit historical eras, witness pivotal events firsthand, interact with historical figures, and complete missions that require understanding each era's culture, technology, and conflicts. Unlike passive timelines, players live through history's defining moments -- facing branching decisions with real consequences.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Era
#FFA726 ChronoQuest is a time travel adventure! Use your Chrono Device to jump to different periods in history, meet famous historical figures, witness important events, and complete missions. Your choices matter -- and you can even explore "what if" scenarios to see how history could have gone differently.
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
ChronoQuest's guides are each one tool historians use: setting where and when, reading what people wrote at the time, keeping oral traditions, tracing what moved between peoples, asking who a version serves, finding whose story is missing, translating ideas, following causes, and noticing what changed. Hard chapters of history come with gentle warnings and a choice to skip ahead.
The Cartographer
Frame-setter — where + when before what + why; methodological starting point
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The Witness
Primary-source lens — what did people THERE see + write?
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The Storykeeper
Oral-tradition lens — multi-tradition keeper-archetype; invented + non-mascotizing
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The Trade-Wind
Connection lens — what moved between civilizations? goods, ideas, diseases
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The Counter-Voice
Critical-analysis lens — who benefits from this version? historian's method, NOT cynicism
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The Chronicler-of-the-Defeated
Stewardship lens — whose story doesn't survive in the winners' archive?
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The Translator
Cross-language + cross-meaning lens — how do concepts travel between cultures?
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The Question-Asker
Meta-inquiry lens — what question are we actually asking? late-arriving capstone guide
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The Thread-Puller
Cause-and-consequence lens — follow the thread back to its causes and forward to its effects
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The Tide-Watcher
Change-and-continuity lens — hold two times side by side and mark what shifted and what stayed
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What's inside
Time Travel
Pick an era on the timeline and jump in! You will land in a world filled with the people, buildings, and culture of that time period. Walk around, talk to peopl
Missions
Each era has missions that require you to understand the history. You might need to help an inventor find supplies, deliver a message during a war, or solve a m
Historical Figures
Meet real people from history and have conversations with them. Ask them questions about their lives, their inventions, or their beliefs. They will talk to you
Museum
Every artifact you collect goes into your personal museum. Arrange your exhibits and share your favorite historical discoveries.
Mentored by Era — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How ChronoQuest 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
ChronoQuest 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
ChronoQuest 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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