KeyPip
KEYPIP
A spelling game where every letter answers back.
KeyPip says a word out loud and your child types it. Each letter wakes up the moment its key goes down, so spelling practice is typing practice too. For children from about four to eight.
One purchase for Mac, iPad and iPhone. No adverts, and nothing to buy inside.
The letters are alive
They blink on their own, the one you are looking for glances around, and each one pops a note higher than the last as it is typed.
An example word, typed one letter at a time, the way a round goes.
Try it: type the word on your keyboard.
Made for real keys
Every word is typed, so your child learns where the letters live while learning to spell. On a Mac, or an iPad with a keyboard attached, they hunt for each letter on real keys and the screen shows only the word. There is nothing to set up and nothing to connect.
On an iPhone, or an iPad without a keyboard, KeyPip draws its own in the layout your child's language really uses, so finding a letter on the screen is practice for finding it on real keys later. It goes from ten big letters for beginners up to the whole board, and it speaks English, Swedish and Hungarian, each with its own words and its own voice.
Look, or just listen
In “I can see” the word is shown, and the game is about finding each letter on the keyboard. In “I listen” it stays hidden, and the word has to be spelled by ear.
KeyPip notices which letters and words are tricky and brings them back more often. There is no timer, no score to beat and no way to lose.
A sticker for every round
Every word walks Pip a step along the star trail. Finish a round and a sticker goes into the book, where it stays. Every fourth round ends with a shiny one.
Brothers and sisters can share a device, each with their own name, their own progress and their own sticker book.
Safe to hand over
KeyPip is made for small children, so it leaves out everything you would otherwise have to check for.
No adverts
Not one, anywhere in the app.
Nothing to buy inside
One purchase covers Mac, iPad and iPhone. No subscription.
No accounts
Nothing to sign up for and no email address to give.
It stays on the device
Names, progress and stickers never leave it. No analytics, no tracking.
Works offline
Once it is downloaded, it needs no internet connection at all.
A gate for grown-ups
Settings sit behind a question a small child cannot read yet.
It works with VoiceOver, honours Reduce Motion, and the whole game can be played from a keyboard alone. Read the privacy policy.
Get KeyPip
For Mac, iPad and iPhone. Buy it once and it is yours on all three.