Learning Games for Kids 4 to 8

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 1.17.0 Truth and Tales now works with VoiceOver. Screens, menus, and controls carry spoken labels and headings, so a child or grown-up who navigates by listening can move through the app independently. Focus follows story lists as they scroll, dialogs keep focus until dismissed, and each screen announces itself. Artwork tapped inside a story scene is not described yet; that work continues. In The Prince's Journey, children can now dress up the characters. The first run is clearer, so children reach the stories sooner, and About Us replays the opening story instead of a video. We also fixed a crash when asking for a new password, repaired the Back button on the plans screen, and made purchase confirmation more reliable. 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) and word-by-word read-along. Designed with doctors, educators, and neuroscientists. 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 with a screen reader? Yes. From version 1.17.0, screens, menus, and controls carry spoken labels and headings for VoiceOver on iPhone and iPad, TalkBack on Android, and the built-in readers on Chromebook and desktop browsers. Truth and Tales also includes dyslexia-friendly fonts, a colour-blind accessible palette, read-along highlighting with human narration, and simple controls for reduced mobility, 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, which invites children to notice their own thinking rather than recall a lesson. 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. There are no points, badges, or streaks. Where many children's apps motivate with reward systems, children here play narrative games in which empathy and flexible thinking develop through the play itself. Research shows external rewards can reduce intrinsic motivation over time (Deci et al., 1999). Every story is also an audiobook with human narration, which makes it a gentle fit for bedtime. 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 the app 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.