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PilePals
A word-pile game for ages 6–8: you get a little pile of letters and make as many words as you can. Tap the letters to build a word — when it’s a real word, its picture pops up. Find them all! On-device; nothing leaves your device.
▶ 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.
Mentored by Piley
#047857 Characters who teach
Meet the cast
PilePals has a tiny friendly crew who show how a pile of letters hides lots of words: Piley tips out the pile and hunts for words with you, Scramble is the mixed-up pile, Anagra rearranges the same letters into a new word, and Discova is the word you find when the letters line up (their illustrated storybooks are on the way).
Piley
tips out the pile of letters and finds words with you
Scramble
The mixed-up pile — the same letters can make lots of words
Anagra
Rearrange — move the letters around to find a new word (tear down and build again)
Discova
The find — the word you discover when the letters line up
What's inside
Learning goal
A word-pile game for ages 6–8: you get a little pile of letters and make as many words as you can. Tap the letters to build a word — when it’s a real word, its picture pops up. Find them all! On-device; nothing leaves your device.
Mentored by Piley — no data leaves the device.
How PilePals 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