Bilingual learning games for kids, with Spanish that is actually Spanish
Written for parents who want their kids to hear real Spanish, not English wearing a costume. Every one of the eleven activities runs end to end in either language.
- Free, with nothing to buy and no premium tier
- No ads, no trackers, no analytics of any kind
- No account needed to play
- Works offline, built for the family iPad
- Every line is spoken aloud, in English and Spanish
The honest pitch
Translated Spanish gives itself away
Most bilingual apps for children are built in English and translated afterward. The result is grammatically defensible and slightly wrong: word order that follows the English, agreement that technically parses, questions phrased the way an English speaker would phrase them. Any adult who speaks Spanish at home hears it immediately, and so, eventually, does the child.
Joya writes each language on its own terms. A Spanish prompt is composed as Spanish, with the construction that language would actually reach for, not the one that mirrors the English line next to it. Sometimes the two versions of the same prompt are not parallel at all, which is the point.
Everything is spoken
Every line a child meets in normal play is an audio clip that ships with the app: the prompt, the praise, the correction, the story. That is not a small detail for a language you are trying to give a child an ear for. A three year old who cannot read either language can still play every activity in both.
The voices are generated speech rather than actors, and we would rather say so plainly than let it be assumed. What that buys is consistency and offline playback: the same voice every session, on a plane, with no connection and nothing to load.
Switching costs nothing
Language is set per child, and it can change whenever you like. Progress is kept against the skill, not against the language, so a child who spends a month in Spanish does not come back to English and find their times tables reset to zero.
That makes a few things possible that a single-language app cannot do. A Spanish-speaking parent and an English-speaking parent can each sit down with the same child on the same tablet. A child in a dual-language classroom can practice in whichever language this week is being taught in. Two siblings on one iPad can be in different languages entirely.
What that covers
All 11 activities, not a Spanish corner
There is no separate Spanish section, because there is no activity that only works in English. Counting, letters, times tables, telling time, shapes, and chess all run in either language, with the same practice schedule underneath and the same record of what your child knows. Story Time works a little differently, since a picture book is written in the language it was written in: the library holds books in both, and a child sees the ones in theirs.
Free to play, anywhere
No sign-up, no download, no card. Add your kids' first names and start.