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LetterTots
Meet the letters with Kea the parrot — name the letter, sing its sound, follow the words, and tell look-alikes apart — the app reads to you, no-fail, for ages 3–4.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 10 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.
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Meet the cast
LetterTots introduces the youngest readers to printed letters — naming each one, singing its sound, following words left-to-right, and telling look-alikes like b and d apart. Kea the parrot is the hero; the cast are Kea's friends. The app reads TO the child, everything is spoken, and a mix-up is just a friendly retry.
Kea
Letter-NAME knowledge — a parrot who says the name of each printed letter ('that's a B'); naming printed letters IS the #1 early reading predictor
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Sono
Letter-SOUND knowledge — a songbird who sings the sound each letter makes (/b/… /s/…); producing the letter's sound IS letter-sound knowledge
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Margo
Print awareness — an inchworm who follows the page left-to-right, word by word; tracking print IS knowing print carries meaning
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Serif
Letter-shape discrimination — a mouse who matches same-shaped letters and tells look-alikes apart (b vs d); discriminating forms IS visual letter knowledge
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What's inside
Learning goal
Meet the letters with Kea the parrot — name the letter, sing its sound, follow the words, and tell look-alikes apart — the app reads to you, no-fail, for ages 3–4.
How LetterTots 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
LetterTots 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
LetterTots 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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