Educational Games Truth&Tales

Children ages 4 to 8 grow attention, empathy, and flexible thinking through interactive Teaching Stories, audiobooks, movement, and coloring. Ad-free, with no data collected from children. WHAT'S NEW IN 1.17.1 Stories you have already downloaded now play offline. The app used to report no connection while the content sat on the device, and a stalled download could leave a spinner with no way out. Loading now lets you back out, and a lost connection offers Try again instead of a dead end. Augmented reality is steadier: turning it off and on again keeps the camera tracking, and cards placed on a surface stay put. The sparkle that follows a finger is visible again, buttons keep clear of notches, stories open faster, and the app wears a new icon. We also fixed a loading screen that could stick after a cancelled purchase, made the account screen show the plan you actually own, and stopped an unexpected sign-in prompt at launch. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS What is Truth and Tales? An award-winning, research-backed social-emotional learning app for children ages 4 to 8. It combines narrative interactive games based on Teaching Stories, body movement activities (Move It Move It), colouring in Artist's Gallery, and audiobooks with professional human narration, never AI-generated. Winner of the Mom's Choice Gold Award, a Common Sense Media 5-star rating, and Apple App of the Day. Used by 100,000+ families and educators worldwide. What are Teaching Stories? Traditional tales shared across cultures for over a thousand years, particularly from Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Unlike fables that teach what to think, or behavioral stories that model what to do, Teaching Stories develop how children think by presenting characters who solve challenges through unexpected solutions. The approach draws on decades of research by Robert Ornstein, Idries Shah, Arthur Deikman, Doris Lessing, Georgi Lozanov, and Paul Zak. Does Truth and Tales work offline? Yes, for content already on the device. From version 1.17.1, stories, audiobooks, colouring pages, and movement activities play with no connection once downloaded. A connection is needed only the first time a story is opened, because the app downloads what a child chooses rather than the whole catalogue. Does Truth and Tales work with a screen reader? Yes. Since version 1.17.0, screens, menus, and controls carry spoken labels and headings for VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad. Truth and Tales is accessible for dyslexia, colour blindness and reduced mobility, with read-along highlighting and human narration, following Universal Design for Learning principles. Artwork tapped inside a story scene is not described yet. What does it develop? Attention, empathy, cognitive flexibility, emotional intelligence, and critical thinking, addressing all five CASEL competencies. Stories are followed by questions with no single right answer, inviting children to notice their own thinking. Research on social-emotional learning reports 11 to 13 percentile-point academic gains (Durlak et al., 2011); that describes the field, not measured results for this app. How is it different from Khan Academy Kids, Lingokids, or Moshi? Truth and Tales uses game-based learning rather than gamification: no points, badges, or streaks. Where many children's apps motivate with reward systems, here empathy and flexible thinking develop through the play itself. Research shows external rewards can reduce intrinsic motivation over time (Deci et al., 1999). Can schools use it? Yes. School licensing gives educators logins and children individual access codes, with no child accounts and no personal data required. Pedagogical guides accompany every activity, and it works one device per child, in pairs, or projected to a whole class. Supports Ontario PPM 169, UK statutory Health Education, and all five CASEL competencies.