Special Interest
WildLens
Photograph real animals with your camera, identify species using on-device CoreML, and learn why they matter through food webs, habitat relationships, and ecosystem interconnections. The differentiator: not just what it is — but why it matters. 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, asks, 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 Lens
#FFA726 WildLens is a wildlife discovery and ecology explorer for ages 9-14 where players photograph real wildlife, identify species with on-device AI, learn ecology through interactive food webs and habitat simulations, and collect observations in a digital field journal — aligned to NGSS middle school life science and ecosystems standards.
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
WildLens teaches wildlife observation through photograph → identify → understand-why loops.
Track
Animal sign reading (footprints, scat, scrapes, scent)
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Forage
Diet + feeding sign
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Cache
Food-storing behavior
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Woven
Food webs; who eats whom links every animal and plant, so a change to one strand tugs on the rest
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Call
Communication (vocalization, body language, signals)
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Brood
Social structure (family groups, herds, flocks, solitary)
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Range
Territory & migration (where animals live, where they go)
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Roost
Habitat behavior (where & why animals rest, nest, den)
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Dusk
Activity timing / when animals are active
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Dapple
Camouflage / concealment
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Waken
Dormancy / hibernation
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What's inside
Learning goal
Photograph real animals with your camera, identify species using on-device CoreML, and learn why they matter through food webs, habitat relationships, and ecosystem interconnections. The differentiator: not just what it is — but why it matters. Ages 9-14.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned question kits, 400 questions in all, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Lens — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How WildLens 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
WildLens 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
WildLens 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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