Kotlin app / Android / Ages 3–8
Countlings.
Trace numbers, count, add and take away with Pip the star: first maths for young children, read aloud so even children who cannot read yet can play on their own.
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What you get
Trace 0 to 20
A green dot shows where to start, a guide dot runs ahead to show the way, and numbered dots give the stroke order. The line is forgiving for small hands, and each number is shown as ten-frame dots so the shape always means an amount.
Seven number games
Count, match, find the missing number, more or fewer, add, take away, and put numbers in order, at three levels a grown-up chooses: up to 5, 10 or 20.
Tap to count
Children tap each picture and it is counted aloud with them, carrying on across both groups of a sum. After a wrong answer Pip suggests counting together.
Spoken, so no reading is needed
Every question and number is read aloud in a warm, natural voice, with a button to hear it again, and Pip the star cheers every win.
Stars and Countling friends
Every finished game earns up to three stars and a new Countling friend: a puppy, a panda, a rocket and more, 36 to meet.
Never punished
A wrong tap only costs a star; the child tries again. There are no timers, lives or losing.
For grown-ups
Countlings works offline, needs no account and keeps progress only on the device. A grown-ups’ area, behind a check young children cannot pass, sets the number level and a play-time limit, shows the numbers your child finds tricky, and turns speech and sounds on or off.
The app is free and shows child-directed, non-personalised adverts rated for all ages, only on the home screen and after a finished game, never while your child is playing. Full-screen adverts are rare.
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