Special Interest

QuillSpell

Spelling and vocabulary mastery through pattern recognition and play.

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.

QuillSpell mascot demonstrating — demonstrating

QuillSpell mascot encouraging — encouraging

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Engagement: Learn · primary Play · secondary

Welcome to QuillSpell — a competitive spelling bee and word mastery arena for ages 9-14. Master spelling through tournament brackets, etymology exploration, morpheme-building challenges, and an AI pronouncer that follows Scripps National Spelling Bee rules.

Distributed-narrative cast

Meet the cast

Etyma

Latin Quarter — Latin roots (port, scrib, dict, vis, audi, port)

Sophia

Greek Acropolis — Greek roots (bio, geo, photo, log, graph, phon)

Birch

Germanic / Old English Grove — short, punchy Anglo-Saxon roots (mouth, hand, foot, hear, see, walk)

Saga

Old Norse Longhouse — northern roots (sky, take, gift, raise, weak, scant)

Margaux

French Chateau — Norman-French roots (royal, chef, ballet, garage, hotel, courage)

Zayn

Arabic Oasis — Arabic-origin English loans (algebra, algorithm, alchemy, zenith, sugar, cotton)

Hush

Silent-letter clan (kn-, gn-, wr-, mb, gh, pn-, ps-)

Twin

Double-consonant rule (running, beginning, hopped, planned — short-vowel-CVC + suffix)

Ember

Schwa-keeper (the unstressed-vowel "uh" — `about`, `pencil`, `lemon`, `circus`, `medium`)

Wren

Vowel-team duos (ai, ea, ee, oa, ow, ie, oi) — "when two vowels go walking"

Affix

Suffix-stack guardian (root + suffix + suffix: nation → national → nationalize → nationalization)

Cadence

Syllable-rhythm master (di-vid-ing words for spelling: VC/CV, V/CV, syl-lab-i-fi-ca-tion)

What's distributed-narrative methodology? →

What's inside

The Core Loop

1. Hear — Quill or the pronouncer speaks a word aloud (Scripps protocol)

Game Modes (unlocked progressively)

| Mode | When it unlocks | What you do |

Streaks, Belts & Quill

Quill's voice is encouraging and never punishing. A wrong answer gets "Tricky one! Every expert was once a beginner." — never "Wrong!".

Settings & Accessibility

Open Settings (behind a parental gate) to find:

Mentored by Quill — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.

How QuillSpell 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

Full parent privacy guide →

Built with ForgeKit

QuillSpell 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

QuillSpell 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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