Developmental (FEDC-informed)
FocusForge
A gamified executive function training adventure for students ages 9-14, with specific design for ADHD and other neurodivergent learners. Players build study skills through six EF domains: working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning/organization, task initiation, and time awareness.
▶ 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 Anchor
#81C784 FocusForge is a gamified executive function training app for students ages 9-14. It helps you build six essential study skills — time awareness, working memory, inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, planning and organization, and task initiation — through fun mini-games, strategy-based challenges, and movement breaks. FocusForge is designed with ADHD-friendly principles at its core: visible timers, enforced breaks, variable rewards, and zero-punishment for missed days.
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Each character in FocusForge is one thinking skill your child can build: holding something in mind, pausing before acting, switching plans, breaking a task into steps, getting started, and sensing time, plus checking work, steady focus, picking the next thing and taking small pieces. Anchor, the mentor, treats each one as a skill to grow, never a flaw.
Hold
Working memory — keeping a thing in mind while you use it; cast literally cups an orb that pulses gently
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Wait
Inhibitory control — the pause between impulse and action; cast treats the pause as a skill, NEVER a moral test
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Pivot
Cognitive flexibility — switching strategies / reframing; cast treats plan-change as INTERESTING not catastrophic
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Map
Planning + organization — breaks ANY task into chunks; never says 'you should already know how'
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Begin
Task initiation — the hardest part is the first second; cast is gentle never-pushy (rejected: Spark — brand collision; Lift-Off — verbosity)
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Clock
Time awareness — time as a felt sense the learner can BUILD; never says 'you should know how long this takes'
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Scan
Checks your own work as you go, catching a wrong turn while it is still small instead of at the very end.
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Steady
Keeps a gentle, steady focus on one thing as the first excitement fades, and comes back kindly whenever attention drifts.
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Whittle
When everything feels urgent at once, carves the loud pile down to the one true next thing.
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Chip
Stays with a hard task by taking one small piece at a time, instead of quitting or trying to force it all at once.
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What's inside
Time Awareness
Build your sense of time with estimation challenges and visual countdown games.
Working Memory
Strengthen your ability to hold and use information in your mind.
Inhibitory Control
Practice pausing before you act and resisting impulses.
Cognitive Flexibility
Learn to adapt when plans change and see things from new angles.
Mentored by Anchor — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How FocusForge 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
FocusForge 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
FocusForge 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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