Academics
DoughTots
A friend asks Doughby for a few seeds. Pinch a lump of dough off, squash lumps back together, and give the friend a lump with just the right number. Ten seeds stay ten, whatever shape the dough is. Counted out loud, no reading needed, nothing leaves your device.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 10 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
#92400e Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
DoughTots's friends each come to Doughby's bakery wanting a few seeds. Doughby keeps all ten seeds in one lump of dough, and whatever shape the dough takes, there are still ten.
Doughby
(Hero and baker, a young hamster with flour on its paws) - pinches dough off and squashes it back, and counts out loud so the seeds always add up to ten
Pinchy
A crab who asks for some seeds - a little lump pinched off is a part, and what is left is the other part
Sesa
A sparrow who wants just one or four seeds - checks the lump by counting each seed once
Bap
A badger who asks for three - if the lump has too many, pinch one back; too few, pinch one more on
What's inside
Learning goal
A friend asks Doughby for a few seeds. Pinch a lump of dough off, squash lumps back together, and give the friend a lump with just the right number. Ten seeds stay ten, whatever shape the dough is. Counted out loud, no reading needed, nothing leaves your device.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Doughby — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How DoughTots handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
DoughTots 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
DoughTots 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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