Ask Ed vs StoryFox

Does your child have worries, anxieties, tantrums? Imagine if an app could teach your child to voice their problems, express their feelings and decide on a plan of action. Ask Ed is designed to help children deal with real life problems from the smallest annoyance to a 'full blown catastrophe'. Ed, the Catastrophe Scale cat guides children through the Ask Ed process; asking questions, providing advice and giving encouragement. Ask Ed uses the Catastrophe Scale to help children put their problems into perspective. Problems may be rated from 0 (no problem) to 10 (worst ever). This helps children understand that some problems may not be as bad as first perceived and can be easily overcome (ratings 0 - 4), while more challenging problems (ratings 5 - 10) need different strategies and help from other people. Ask Ed is a great way for children to express their problems and share their feelings, empowering them to solve their own problems and feel good about themselves. Features of Ask Ed • Deals with ‘real life’ problems - from the smallest annoyance to a full blown catastrophe! • Helps children manage feelings of frustration, sadness and anger. • Provides messages of support and encouragement. • Produces an Ask Ed report detailing the child’s responses. • Report can be emailed and printed for future reference. • Includes a database of real life problems experienced by children. • Allows children to add their own problems and ideas. • Helps children develop real life problem solving skills and build resilience. • Can be used at home, school or out and about. • Works with individual children or groups of children. • Suitable for children from pre-school to secondary school. If you’re looking for a way to help children, Ask Ed!

The same scene every evening: your child reads aloud, and you try to work out whether it is getting better. StoryFox answers that for you. The child reads an ordinary paper book. The app listens and counts. WHAT YOU SEE AFTER EVERY READING • Speed — words per minute, and how it changed over the week • Expression — whether punctuation gets a pause, whether the pace is even • Comprehension — a few questions about what was read, answered out loud • Reading time — without a stopwatch in front of the child BOOK THE FOX Book listens, asks questions and helps when a word will not come. He never interrupts mid-sentence: while the child reads, the screen shows no mistakes and no warnings — only the time. This is reading, not an exam. FOR PARENTS A short report: what was read, for how long, what happened to the speed, what the child understood. No charts that mean nothing. READ IN ANY LANGUAGE The interface is Ukrainian, English, Polish or German. The reading language is chosen separately: questions and the recap come back in the language your child reads in. FREE VERSION Two books in the library and three readings a day. Speed, expression, questions and parent reports all work — only the counts are limited. STORYFOX PLUS Unlimited books and no daily reading limit. The first 7 days are free, then $4.99 a month, shown by the store in your own currency. The subscription renews automatically and can be cancelled at any time in your account settings. HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS The numbers are approximate and depend on the sound quality. StoryFox is not a speech, educational or medical assessment and does not replace a specialist. PRIVACY No sign-up. Audio and page photos are used only to calculate the metrics and build the questions; we do not pass them on for model training. The microphone is required — otherwise there is nothing to listen to. The camera only if you photograph a page. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://storyfox.taskyland.cloud/privacy