What's inside
Twenty-one decks, over 400 cards
Every deck opens with Cody saying hello, then it's just swipe, look, listen. All of it is built in — nothing streams, nothing loads.
Colours
14 colours, one per swipeStory of the Planets
A 14-page story — Dave flies a rocketAlphabets
26 letters, 5 words eachNumbers
1 to 100, digit and wordMy First Words
Around 70 first wordsPlants
26 plants, A to ZBirds
26 birds, A to ZSea Animals
15 creatures from under the waterFruits
16 fruits to nameShapes
11 shapes to spotPlanets
All 8, one at a timeMonths
All 12, in orderDays of Week
7 days to learnFamily
6 of the people who love themFrench
Counting 1 to 20, en françaisPhonics
26 letter sounds, a picture for eachOpposites
14 pairs — hot and cold, big and smallBody Parts
16, from head to toesTransportation
16 ways to go — car, rocket, submarineVerbs
26 doing words to act outHow it works
Built for hands that can't read yet
Two buttons. That's the whole interface.
Back and Ready. There are no menus, no settings, no tabs, and nowhere to type. A toddler can't get lost, and can't get out into anything they shouldn't.
One card at a time, at their pace
Each deck is a stack of big picture cards. Swipe sideways and the next one snaps into place — no scoring, no timers, no streaks to keep up. When they're bored of frogs, they swipe.
And a bedtime story, too
Story of the Planets isn't flashcards — it's fourteen pages about Dave, who flies a rocket to every planet in turn. The background changes colour as he goes: rusty orange for Mars, deep blue for Neptune.
The colours deck
The whole screen changes colour with them
Swipe through the colours deck and the background, the card and even the status bar shift to match. Fourteen of them:
Pink
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Purple
Brown
Black
White
Red
Indigo
Violet
Lemon
Gold
Two ways in
Try it now, or keep it on the phone
Both are free, and both are the same app.
Play in your browser
Nothing to install. Opens on a phone, a tablet or a laptop — handy for letting someone try it before they commit to a download.
Open CiaraAppDownload for Android
An APK you install directly. Once it's on, it needs no connection at all — every picture and word ships inside the app.
Download the APK- Tap the download, then open the file.
- Android will ask permission to install from an unknown source — that's expected for an app that isn't on the Play Store yet. Allow it for your browser.
- Install, and Cody is waiting on the home screen.
There's no iPhone or iPad version. Use the browser link on those — it works well.
For the grown-ups
What it doesn't do
This is the short list, and it's the honest one — the app makes no network requests of any kind.
- No adsNot any kind, not ever, not even "family friendly" ones.
- No accountsNothing to sign up for. No email, no password, no profile.
- No tracking in the appNo analytics, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs — the app never opens a socket.
- No data collectedNothing is stored about your child, because nothing is collected.
- No connection neededWorks on a plane, in the car, anywhere.
- Nothing to buyNo in-app purchases and no upsell screens.
This web page is the one exception, and it is worth being straight about: it counts visits and downloads using Umami, a cookieless analytics tool, so we know whether anyone is finding the app. No cookies, no personal data, nothing that follows you to another site — and none of it is in the app you install.