In development
Kids phonics & early maths
Five minutes a night, in the order reading actually builds.
WonderPages teaches letter sounds in the order that actually builds a reader, one short quest at a time — and practises them on the words your child already cares about, starting with the names of the people and animals in your house.
Why it exists
Reading isn't guessed. It's taught, in an order.
There is a large and rather boring body of evidence about how children learn to read, and it says roughly this: teach the relationship between letters and sounds explicitly, in a deliberate sequence, and give children words they can actually decode to practise on. Plenty of children's apps skip the sequence and go straight to the animation.
WonderPages keeps the sequence and puts the animation around it. The five minutes are the point — it's designed to be finished, not to keep a child on the screen.
What it does
A short quest, with a real curriculum underneath.
Phonics in the order that works
Each night is one mission with one job — a new letter-sound pattern, a tricky word, the magic e. Behind it sits a full sequence: grapheme–phoneme correspondences, sight words, phonological awareness, and decodable stories with comprehension questions built only on what's already been taught.
- Explicit, sequenced phonics rather than guess-from-the-picture
- Stories that only use sounds your child has already met
- Early maths on the same five-minute pattern
Practising on your family's own words
Add the dog's name, a sibling, a grandparent. Once a word is in, it joins the blending practice — so the first thing your child sounds out unaided isn't cat, it's Maple. It's a small trick, and it works disproportionately well.
Pip, the app's guide, reads every word aloud, including the ones you invented. The voice is generated on the phone rather than recorded by an actor, which is the only reason a made-up family name can be spoken at all.
A grown-ups' section behind a real gate
Progress, coaching tips and the family word list sit behind a parental gate a four-year-old can't brute-force. There's nothing to buy inside the child's part of the app, no advertising, and no route out of it to a browser or a store.
The microphone is used so the app can hear your child read a word back, and speech recognition is forced to run on-device — the audio is never sent anywhere to be processed. Decline the microphone entirely and everything except read-aloud practice still works.
WonderPages Forever
One purchase, every child in the house.
The first lesson is free, then fifteen days are free, and then it's $21.99 once — for the whole curriculum, permanently. It's covered by Family Sharing, so a single purchase covers up to five people in your family, and there is nothing else to buy inside it, ever.
Trial
- One lesson free straight away
- Then fifteen days of everything
- No card needed to start
Forever $21.99 once
- The complete phonics and maths curriculum
- Family words and the whole story library
- Family Sharing for up to five people
- No subscription, no ads, nothing else to buy
How it runs
Works on a plane, in a car, anywhere you actually read together.
Every part of WonderPages runs on the device — the lessons, the stories, Pip's voice, and the listening. There is no loading spinner between a child and their five minutes, and no connection to lose halfway through a lesson.
Pip speaks with a speech model that runs on the phone rather than pre-recorded audio, which is why a name you typed in yourself can be read aloud correctly. The listening uses on-device speech recognition, so a child can read a word back and be heard without anything being sent away to be processed. Progress and your family's word list sync through your own iCloud, so a second phone or an iPad picks up where you left off.
The microphone is optional — decline it and everything except read-aloud practice still works. WonderPages supports reading practice at home; it is not an assessment or a diagnosis, and it is not a substitute for a teacher or a specialist where one is needed. Policies are on the legal page.
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Devices
- iPhone and iPad
- Price
- $21.99 once, after a 15-day trial
- Account
- None
- Sync
- Your own iCloud
- Permissions
- Microphone and speech, both optional
Coming to the App Store.
WonderPages is still in development. LeasePace is out now, if you want to see how we finish things.