Academics
LifeQuest
Navigate real-life consumer decisions — compare phone plans, read lease agreements, plan meals on a budget, spot consumer scams, and manage a household — through simulation of the everyday adult scenarios that middle schoolers will face within five years. Ages 11-14.
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.
#81C784 LifeQuest is a consumer literacy simulator where you navigate real-life adult decisions in a safe practice environment. Compare phone plans, read lease agreements, plan meals on a budget, spot consumer scams, file simplified taxes, and practice job interviews. Your AI Life Coach helps you develop th
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
LifeQuest's 6-character life-skill-domain cast maps 1:1 to the 6 consumer-literacy + life-skills domains — budgeting / document-reading / scam-detection / forms-and-taxes / meal-planning / interview-and-self-advocacy. Cast: Save / Parse / Spot / Fill / Cook / Say. UNIQUE TRAUMA-INFORMED BURDEN: class-stress-adjacent content requires off-ramps + sensitivity reviewer ($500-$800). Per `lifequest-app/Docs/HANDOFF_FROM_LABSMITH_DISTRIBUTED_NARRATIVE_RETROFIT.md` Wave 32b 2026-05-22. MENTOR RENAMED in Wave 32b: previous 'Tally' (HARD collision with EscapeForge Wave 32b sibling cast member Tally) → 'Steward' (life-decisions-stewardship register; clear in registry). Multiple cast collision-renames applied (Plan→Save / Read→Parse / Tell→Say). Labsmith generates ~$1.62 cast assets. Cross-app cameos: Spot ↔ TerraWatch+ForgeClassroom+CuriosityQuest (load-bearing observation cluster); Save ↔ EconomicsForge planning; Parse ↔ TruthQuest; Cook ↔ SaffronLab; Say ↔ DebateForge+SpeakForge.
Save
Budgeting + financial planning — 'Money is a tool. Plan the tool.'
Parse
Reading-comprehension for adult docs — 'Slow down. Read it ALL.'
Spot
Scam-detection + critical-claim-evaluation — 'Show me the proof.'
Fill
Forms + paperwork + simplified taxes — 'Fill out. Then double-check.'
Cook
Meal planning + nutrition + budget-cooking — 'Eat well. Spend smart.'
Say
Self-advocacy + interview-craft — 'Be clear. Be kind. Be specific.'
What's inside
Apartment Hunt
Find housing within a budget, read lease terms, identify predatory clauses like automatic renewal and excessive late fees, understand tenant rights, set up util
Smart Shopper
Master unit pricing at the grocery store, understand sales and coupon math, read product labels and warranties, comparison shop for major purchases, and recogni
Contract Literacy
Read through simplified but realistic contracts for cell phone plans, gym memberships, streaming services, and car insurance. Practice identifying auto-renewal
Tax Basics
Read a W-2, understand paycheck deductions (federal tax, state tax, Social Security, Medicare), complete a simplified tax form, and learn what taxes fund. Demys
Mentored by Steward — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How LifeQuest 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
LifeQuest 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
LifeQuest 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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