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SolfaPals
Sing do-re-mi with Octavia the octopus (ages 6–8): sing a solfa step and Octavia floats to your note, then a limb lights up when you hold it — with Curwen hand signs and a music staff that peels back from dots to real notes. Every little song is sung in YOUR key. On-device — your voice never leaves the device, nothing is recorded.
#0E8A8A Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
SolfaPals' younger hero-anchored cast (ages 6–8): hero Octavia the octopus (a limb per solfa step) + a few gentle sea friends, no trauma depth (R-YOUNGER-CLUSTER-CAST-SIZE). Each friend embodies one gentle primitive (R-DN-PARITY). Illustrated portraits + DN-S chapters are on the way (STORY-PEND).
Octavia
(Hero) floats to your note; a limb lights up for every solfa step you hold (movable-do solfa, embodied)
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Bluma
sings as low as a big whale
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Pico
sings as high as a little fish
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Reef
the staff that peels back from dots to real notes as you learn to sing by ear
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What's inside
Learning goal
Sing do-re-mi with Octavia the octopus (ages 6–8): sing a solfa step and Octavia floats to your note, then a limb lights up when you hold it — with Curwen hand signs and a music staff that peels back from dots to real notes. Every little song is sung in YOUR key. On-device — your voice never leaves the device, nothing is recorded.
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 Octavia — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How SolfaPals 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
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
SolfaPals 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
SolfaPals 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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