Academics
ReelPals
Make a tiny film with real toys. Take a picture, move the toy a little, take another — the last picture shows faintly so you know where it was. Eight frames, press play, and the toy walks. Then: what did we make the viewer believe? No camera? Draw your frames instead. 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 Flickett
#BE123C Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
Flickett the flipbook knows the oldest secret of film: still pictures, shown fast, look like moving. Wispen is the faint ghost of the last picture, so you know where your toy was.
Flickett
(Mentor, a flipbook) - shows that still pictures shown fast make movement
Wispen
The onion-skin ghost - the last picture, shown faintly
What's inside
Learning goal
Make a tiny film with real toys. Take a picture, move the toy a little, take another — the last picture shows faintly so you know where it was. Eight frames, press play, and the toy walks. Then: what did we make the viewer believe? No camera? Draw your frames instead. 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 Flickett — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How ReelPals 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
ReelPals 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
ReelPals 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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