Academics
GlobePals
A globe you can spin. Which is farther from home — Paris or Tokyo? Guess first, then the globe draws the path and tells you about how far. Every city you visit gets a stamp in your printable passport. A grown-up picks “home” from a list — no location is ever used. Ages 6–8.
Built 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, praises, 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 Ternwick
#0369A1 Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
Ternwick the Arctic tern flies farther than any other bird and knows the whole globe. Pinnet marks home, and Arcwell is the thread that shows the shortest way across a round world.
Ternwick
(Mentor, an Arctic tern) - asks which place is farther and lets you guess first
Pinnet
A little pin - marks home on the globe
Arcwell
A golden thread - shows the shortest path across the round Earth
What's inside
Learning goal
A globe you can spin. Which is farther from home — Paris or Tokyo? Guess first, then the globe draws the path and tells you about how far. Every city you visit gets a stamp in your printable passport. A grown-up picks “home” from a list — no location is ever used. Ages 6–8.
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 Ternwick — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How GlobePals 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
GlobePals 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
GlobePals 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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