The games library that calms your child's screen time.
Calm thinking games for children, grown-ups and grandparents. No points, no adverts, nothing to buy inside. The reward is finishing.
First week free · no card needed · 12 games · whole household
WHAT THE PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH SHOWS
Expected rewards reduce children's later interest in activities they already enjoyed — the "overjustification effect".
Cool-hued learning environments measurably improve attention and memory.
Learning-environment design accounts for around 16% of a year's learning progress.
Findings summarised from the published studies; the researchers are not affiliated with this platform.
A calmer, more honest approach to children's screen time
Lower the temperature — don't raise it
Warm paper, quiet colour, silence by default. Nothing flashes, counts down or begs to be tapped. Children settle into these games the way they settle into a good book — and parents notice the difference in the room afterwards.
Build the muscle that matters — perseverance
Every game practises the same loop: try, see the honest result, adjust, keep going. No lives, no timers, no "game over" — failure costs nothing, which is exactly what makes children willing to try again. That loop transfers to homework and far beyond.
Safety by subtraction — not by settings
No chat, no strangers, no adverts, no purchases, no links out, no data collection. We didn't add safety features to a risky product; we removed every risky thing from the product itself.
WHY US?
Everything a family needs, nothing that hooks
The library
Twelve classic thinking games — deduction, words, numbers, memory — every one built to the same published reward-free standard, with three difficulty settings that grow with the player.
Find out more →The grown-ups' room
A PIN-protected dashboard that reports in plain English: time, games, and the skills being practised. Children never see their own statistics.
Find out more →Gentle by design
Welcome messages, a daily fun fact, and break suggestions you control — worded as care, never as nagging. The app that suggests stopping.
Find out more →The skill language
Every game wears small icons for what it builds — deduction, focus, memory, numbers, words — one vocabulary families learn once, across the whole shelf.
Find out more →A published standard
No points, no pressure, no tricks, no data collection — written down, applied to every game, ours today and vetted guest developers' tomorrow.
Find out more →Research-led, family-tested
Built on five decades of motivation and learning research, and tested at real kitchen tables before anything ships.
Read the research →thinking games on the shelf — every one passing the same published reward-free standard
generations served: shelves for children, grown-ups, and gentle memory games for older family
adverts, purchases, or strangers — ever. There is no free-with-ads tier and never will be
of peer-reviewed motivation research behind the reward-free design
difficulty settings on every game — Gentle, Steady and Stretch — so it grows with each player
promise: the only reward is finishing. Everything else follows from it
THREE SHELVES · ONE LIBRARY
Built for children first — that's the founding purpose. And because calm, honest thinking games turn out to be good for every brain, there's a shelf for all ages: children, adults, and older family alike.
Kids
Deduction, words and numbers that grow with each child.
Grown-ups
Codewords and harder logic — a quiet break that isn't a feed.
Memory
Gentle recall games with large type, no pressure, no timers.
WHY IS IT FREE RIGHT NOW?
Because we're in family testing. The library is being tested by real families — including the founder's own — before wider release. While that's happening, everything is free and nothing is charged.
When we launch properly it will be one fair subscription, £4.99 a month for the household. No free-with-adverts tier, ever — adverts are how children's attention gets sold, and one honest price is what lets us promise this library will never try to hook anyone.
"I built this because I couldn't find it — my children's homework lives on screens, but every game nearby was engineered to hook them. So we went to the research and built the quiet alternative."
— Francesca, founderSee it for yourself.
First week free · then £4.99 a month for the whole household · cancel any time, lose nothing
No card needed during the free week.
PRICING IS A PLACEHOLDER — EVERYTHING IS FREE DURING FAMILY TESTING