Developmental (FEDC-informed)
FeelingFriends
Name feelings, read faces, and figure out what would help a friend — gentle, all-spoken emotion skills with Momo and friends, for ages 5–8.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 15 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.
#E8709A Characters who teach
Meet the cast
FeelingFriends is a little band of animal friends who help the youngest learners notice and name feelings — putting a name to a feeling, reading it on a face, figuring it out from what happened, and choosing what would help. Momo the soft monster is the hero; the cast are Momo's friends. Everything is spoken and warm, and there are no wrong answers.
Momo
Naming feelings — a soft monster who puts a NAME to a feeling; naming the feeling IS emotional awareness
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Facey
Reading faces — a cat who matches a face to the feeling it shows; the expression IS the clue
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Sensa
Situation → feeling — a rabbit who figures out how someone feels from what happened
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Comfy
Empathy in action — a dog who chooses what would help someone feel better; the helpful choice IS empathy
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What's inside
Learning goal
Name feelings, read faces, and figure out what would help a friend — gentle, all-spoken emotion skills with Momo and friends, for ages 5–8.
How FeelingFriends 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 FeelingFriends on Spark & Whetstone, our free site for grown-ups: Feelings at Our Table. They name a feeling; you learn the words that help without fixing it.
It also tells what FeelingFriends teaches in a short course of its own.
FeelingFriends 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
FeelingFriends 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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