# Maiitrika — Language & Writing, slowly > Language & Writing, slowly (iPhone/iPad app by Rohan Arora.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/maiitrika/id6801780859 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Rohan Arora](https://appshunter.io/developer/6772690223) - Category: Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 114 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-19 - Data updated: 2026-10-14 ## What is Maiitrika? Maiitrika is a calm place for children to meet letters, words and numbers. One card fills the screen: a letter, the sound it makes, a picture, and a word — in both Hindi and English. A child meeting क also meets "lotus". A child meeting L also meets पत्ता. The two alphabets teach each other. Nothing here is trying to hold your child's attention longer than they want to give it. • No scores, no stars, no streaks, no timers • No sound unless something is touched — nothing plays on its own • No advertising, no analytics, no accounts, no links out • Works completely offline • Nothing is ever marked wrong THREE SUBJECTS, EQUAL WEIGHT हिंदी — Hindi • स्वर, 13 vowels • व्यंजन, 36 consonants • मात्रा, the vowel signs that turn letters into words • पहले शब्द, 16 first words English • A B C — 26 letters and the sounds they make, not just their names • Blending — c–a–t — where letters become reading • sh, ch, th — two letters, one sound गणित — Maths, in both languages • Counting 1 to 20 on a ten frame, so quantity can be seen • Shapes • Adding, shown filling in rather than stated Numbers appear as १ and 1 together, and are read aloud in both languages. A quantity is the same quantity whichever script names it. A STORY YOU MAKE TOGETHER Choose a character, choose who comes to help, choose where it happens — and the app tells a bedtime or playtime story about them, in Hindi and English. Every line was written by a person; nothing is generated by a model, and none of it needs the internet. Each page carries a question for you to ask before turning it, and the story ends by handing back the three Devanagari letters it was built from — heard first in real words, then one tap from their own card. HOW IT TEACHES Letters are read aloud slowly, twice, with a rest between — the rests are where a child says it back. Trace any letter with a finger and it fills in as you go; stray outside and it simply doesn't, so the letter corrects you rather than anyone else doing it. Letters already met come back for quiet practice, spaced further apart each time they are remembered and sooner when they are not. Look-alike letters are brought close together so the difference has to be noticed. Practice offers only "got it" and "not yet", and "not yet" simply brings the letter back sooner. Maiitrika collects nothing. There is no network connection in the app at all. ## Is Maiitrika safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Maiitrika. ## Is Maiitrika legit? Maiitrika has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Maiitrika is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.4.0 — 2026-08-31 Faster, calmer, and now in your language. CHOOSE YOUR LANGUAGE Every button and heading can lead in English or in Hindi — tap EN / हिं at the top. The lessons stay bilingual either way, because seeing क and "lotus" together is the whole point. THINKING AND PATTERNS तर्क — different, not, first, if. The beginnings of reasoning: what does not belong, what is NOT an animal, which comes first, and what you need if it is raining. Every answer explains itself in both languages, because knowing why the others are wrong is the part that lasts. पैटर्न — what comes next. AB, AAB, ABB, and patterns that grow. A wrong piece just fades and the question stays open. MORE TO LOOK AT Every letter now carries three example words instead of one, each with its own picture, so the letter is the thing they have in common rather than the word being memorised. QUICKER TO USE Cards now settle in about a third of the time they used to. Buttons respond the instant a finger lands and settle on a spring, so the app answers you rather than queueing you. TRACING FIXED Tracing no longer turns the page mid-stroke, and the letter fills in only where you actually trace it. Still no scores, no timers, no streaks, and no sound unless something is touched. Still nothing that can be got wrong. Still entirely offline. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-24 Maiitrika now teaches three subjects, not one. हिंदी — vowels and consonants as before, and now मात्रा: the vowel signs that turn letters into words. A child who knows every consonant still cannot read कान until they know what the stroke after क does. English — every letter now leads with the sound it makes rather than its name, because that is what reading needs. New: blending (c–a–t), where letters become words, and sh, ch, th, where two letters make one sound. गणित — counting to twenty on a ten frame, shapes, adding, and patterns. Numbers appear as १ and 1 together and are read aloud in both languages. NEW IN THIS VERSION • मात्रा — the vowel signs, ten cards • Blending and digraphs for English reading • Counting 11–20, and adding shown filling in rather than stated • Patterns — what comes next, the beginning of logic • Two extra example words and pictures for every single letter • Trace any letter with a finger; it fills in as you go, and going outside the lines simply adds nothing • A warmer voice that works entirely offline • Quiet practice: letters you have met come back, spaced further apart each time they are remembered and sooner when they are not Still no scores, no timers, no streaks, and no sound unless something is touched. 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