Academics
TinyLetters
Emergent Phonics + Alphabet for Ages 5-7 — letter-sound mapping, sight words, decodable storyboarding. Pip Jr (younger-sibling sparrow to LyricForge's Pip) guides daily 15-min phonics routines.
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.
#FFB89C Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
TinyLetters's 3-character supporting cast (Wave 30 — Younger Cluster Variant; ages 5-7) embodies emergent-phonics primitives as concrete-physical sound-friends — consonant-sounds (Huff), vowel-sounds (Loo), blend-sounds (Stick). Following the Wave 29 Younger Cluster Variant pattern (BugsCamp / CountingPals / HuggyHabits / MelodyMice), Pip Jr (younger sparrow sibling to LyricForge's Pip + AI phonics coach) remains the protagonist + phonics-garden host; cast members are phonics-garden friends Pip Jr visits at each sound-skill. Cast fades by kit 7 so kit 8 (reflection) is the kid's own decoding of a short book. Catchphrases ≤6 words repeated identically (`Quick sound. Like this.` / `Hold the sound. Sing it.` / `Stick them. Say them fast.`); each catchphrase is itself made of short decodable words — meta-pedagogically the catchphrases ARE the practice. CRITICAL phonics-shame prevention sub-gate: never call out a missed sound publicly; attempts-count is internal-only telemetry, never surfaced. Cast catchphrases sound-evocative (Huff = puff; Loo = long-vowel hoot; Stick = glue-them-together). Gentle-correction-only feedback (no wrong-sound red-flash; co-exploration invitations). Parent co-play affordances required — grown-ups model the puff / hold / stretch-and-snap gestures. All 3 names new to registry (no collisions).
Huff
Consonant sounds — soft pale-blue bunny-kid in coral scarf; literally puffs a soft cloud-shape for each consonant sound; treats each sound as gentle quick exhale
Loo
Vowel sounds — soft warm-amber owl-kid in tiny moss-green hood; HOLDS each vowel sound by hooting it slowly with visible long sound-wave; conductor-cue wing tip for hold-along
Stick
Blend sounds — tiny warm-russet squirrel-kid in cream apron full of letter-tiles + tiny pot of soft-honey `sound glue`; sticks letter-tiles together then says the blended word; treats blending as hand-craft anyone can practice
What's inside
Learning goal
Emergent Phonics + Alphabet for Ages 5-7 — letter-sound mapping, sight words, decodable storyboarding. Pip Jr (younger-sibling sparrow to LyricForge's Pip) guides daily 15-min phonics routines.
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 Pip Jr — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How TinyLetters 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
TinyLetters 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
TinyLetters 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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