Academics
SyntaxForge
Build a short program to hit a goal — taking the training wheels off one at a time: tap whole-token tiles into the blanks, then type with a palette, then write it all yourself. The engine runs what you built and tells you exactly where the syntax went wrong. A make-it-print coding lab. Ages 9–14.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 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.
#6b3fa0 Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
SyntaxForge's symbol-keepers each look after one piece of punctuation, so a program says exactly what it means.
Camel
(The one you teach) - drops a bracket now and then and runs words together — you teach him
Paren
makes sure every action word has its pair of round brackets
Curly
watches every block open and close
Quotie
keeps words inside their quotes
Colon
reads every symbol as a sentence
What's inside
Learning goal
Build a short program to hit a goal — taking the training wheels off one at a time: tap whole-token tiles into the blanks, then type with a palette, then write it all yourself. The engine runs what you built and tells you exactly where the syntax went wrong. A make-it-print coding lab. Ages 9–14.
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.
How SyntaxForge 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
SyntaxForge 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
SyntaxForge 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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