# Slate Kids — Reading, without the internet > Reading, without the internet (iPhone/iPad app by Occupy Mars Private Limited.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/slate-kids/id6793016421 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Occupy Mars Private Limited](https://appshunter.io/developer/6793016423) - Category: Education, Books - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 8 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-05 - Data updated: 2026-09-14 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/slate-kids/id6793016421/reviews.md ## What is Slate Kids? Slate turns the phone already in your pocket into a single-purpose reading device for your child. Open Slate Time and the phone becomes a slate: a library of classic tales and nothing else. No browser. No feed. No notifications. No next-episode autoplay waiting to catch a five-year-old's attention. When the day's reading is done, Slate says so and stops - it does not hand your child an open phone. WHAT IS INSIDE A library of classic tales - Aesop, Panchatantra, and the stories that have been told to children for centuries - retold and illustrated for the age you set. Every tale is told more than one way: picture-play for the youngest, read-along with narration for children finding their feet as readers. Narration is always available, so a child who cannot yet read can still use Slate alone. Reading earns play. Finish a tale and your child unlocks a few minutes of quiet play - a small, gentle game with a clear end, not a feed without one. However many minutes they earn, the daily limit you set still holds, and you can switch play off entirely. The screen is styled to read like paper: grayscale, high-contrast, glow-free. It is not an e-ink display and we will not pretend it is. It is your phone's own screen, calmed right down. LEAVING SLATE TIME, HONESTLY Slate Time ends with your phone's own lock - Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. There is no separate parent code to remember, and your child cannot end Slate Time from inside the app without it. We want to be precise about what that is and is not. With your permission, Slate Lock uses Apple's own Screen Time to keep every other app waiting while Slate Time runs: a child who swipes home finds every other app behind Slate's own notice, and Slate still open. It is Apple's mechanism, switched on once and off the moment you end the session, and it reads nothing about how the phone is used. If you would rather not grant Screen Time access, Guided Access (Settings > Accessibility) does the same job the older way: Slate waits for you to turn it on with a triple-click before a session starts, and ends the session the moment it is switched off. WE COLLECT NOTHING ABOUT YOUR CHILD Not "we anonymise it". Nothing about your child is ever sent anywhere. There are no child profiles, no progress files, no behavioural records, and no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs anywhere in this app. A kid space is a nickname and an age range that you choose, and it never leaves the phone. Minutes read and minutes earned are calculated on the device, shown to you, and never transmitted. What we do hold is your own phone number, because that is how you sign in and how your subscription is recognised. That is the entire list. We are governed by India's DPDP Act, and you can ask us to delete your data at any time - including from inside the app. PRICING Slate begins with 7 days of full access, free. No card, no trial that quietly becomes a charge. After that: - Slate Monthly - Rs. 149 per month - Slate Annual - Rs. 999 per year (about 44% less than paying monthly) One subscription covers every child on the phone. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Privacy policy: https://slatekids.com/privacy Terms of use: https://slatekids.com/terms Slate is made in India, for families here. ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 0.9.6 — 2026-09-11 Slate Lock: with your permission, Slate now uses Screen Time to keep every other app waiting while your child reads. Set it up once; end Slate Time with Face ID or your passcode. Guided Access stays available in Settings for parents who prefer it. A new quiet game, Nim, joins the minutes your child earns by reading, and every game is redrawn. The word being read now sits on a pill in the reader. Tap it to see the word up close. Page turns settle instead of blinking, and the 10+ shelf can be filtered. ### 0.9.5 — 2026-09-07 The library no longer waits for a download to finish - when you are online, your child's books appear and open straight away while the rest keeps downloading in the background. Your child's books now download over any connection, not just Wi-Fi, and keep themselves up to date in the background - so reading works with no internet at all. Narration now arrives as one file per story, so listening starts sooner and holds up on a slow line. A new quiet game, Dots and Boxes, joins the minutes your child earns by reading. The reader, the waiting screens and every message are redrawn, and sign-in now tells you exactly what went wrong in one line. Have an offer code? Tap HAVE A CODE? on the plan screen and redeem it through the App Store. Same promise: no internet, no profiles, no tracking. ### 0.9.4 — 2026-09-03 Stories now live on your iPhone. Slate downloads your child's books over Wi-Fi, so reading works with no internet at all. The reader is redrawn for every age - swipe or tap the page edges to turn, and see how far along a story is at a glance. Locking the phone into Slate is clearer: Slate waits for your triple-click and ends the session the moment you unlock. The parent code is gone — your phone's own lock is the only key. Sign-in, the parent space and plans are redrawn, with your plan and renewal date in the app. Same promise: no internet, no profiles, no tracking. ### 0.9.2 — 2026-08-28 No release notes. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-14.*