Academics
JestForge
Learn to write jokes, riddles, and puns — then battle friends to see who's funniest
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
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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 Quip
#4A6FA5 JestForge is a comedy creation workshop where you learn how jokes actually work -- then make your own! Study joke structures like setup-punchline, craft puns and riddles, battle friends in comedy competitions, and build a joke journal. It is the first app that teaches comedy as a real creative skill.
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Each character in JestForge is one part of building a joke: the setup and payoff, wordplay, timing, reading the room, and enjoying humour from other traditions with respect. Quip, the mentor, keeps the jokes kind: they poke fun at silly situations and at ourselves, never at who someone is.
Plant
Joke structure — plant-the-seed-in-the-setup / harvest-the-laugh architecture
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Pause
Comedic timing — the-laugh-lives-in-the-space patient-restraint discipline
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Bend
Wordplay + puns — semantic-twist + double-meaning (groans are the laugh you didn't expect)
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Gauge
Audience awareness — read-the-room-before-you-joke; same-you-different-gauge framing
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Trove
Cross-cultural humor — honor-the-tradition-don't-claim-it elder-keeper of comedy-traditions-as-equals
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Aloft
Punching up, not down (comedy aimed at the powerful, never the vulnerable)
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Balloon
Exaggeration (blowing one true detail up until it's funny)
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Glean
Observational humour (finding the funny in everyday things everyone notices)
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Thrice
The rule of three (two beats set a pattern, the third breaks it)
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Zag
Misdirection (leading the audience one way, then cutting the other)
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What's inside
Comedy Academy
Learn how different types of jokes are built. What makes a pun funny? How does misdirection work in a setup-punchline joke? Each lesson breaks down a joke type
Joke Workshop
Use guided creation tools to write your own jokes. Pick a joke template, fill in the blanks with your own words, and the AI comedy mentor gives you feedback. As
Comedy Battles
Challenge friends to a comedy battle! Everyone submits their best joke anonymously, and the group votes on the funniest ones. Points go to the jokes, not the pe
Joke Journal
Save every joke you create in your personal joke journal. Rate your own jokes, tag them by type, and watch your comedy skills improve over time.
Mentored by Quip — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How JestForge 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
JestForge 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
JestForge 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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