Academics
PlopTots
Tap and a block drops — and becomes what its place suggests. Beside the river it is a boathouse, stacked it is a tower with a bell, three in a row are shops. A tram plays your street as a tune. No words, no score, no timer. Your town is kept on this device.
Built for sittings of about 10 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
#a34a12 Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
PlopTots's friends each embody one NEIGHBOUR RULE — the crew IS the rules that decide what a block becomes. Paddle builds by the water, Ding climbs what you stack, and Bunting hangs her stripes when three stand side by side. Plop the hedgehog (the hero) drops a block and waits to see what it becomes.
Plop
(Hero and guide, a hedgehog) - drops a block and waits to see what its place makes it
Paddle
A duckling who lives by the river - any block beside the water becomes her boathouse
Ding
A little mountain goat who climbs - a block on a block grows into a tower, and three high she rings the bell
Bunting
A mouse shopkeeper - when three blocks stand side by side on the street she hangs her striped awnings and they become shops
What's inside
Learning goal
Tap and a block drops — and becomes what its place suggests. Beside the river it is a boathouse, stacked it is a tower with a bell, three in a row are shops. A tram plays your street as a tune. No words, no score, no timer. Your town is kept on this device.
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 Plop — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How PlopTots 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
PlopTots 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
PlopTots 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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