Letters, phonics, maths, stories, rhymes and games for children from about two to twelve, in Bangla and English. Each age gets its own home screen, parents get a dashboard behind a PIN, and every lesson works offline.
Who it is for: Parents of children from about two to twelve, at home in both Bangla and English.
Children here grow up between two languages and most learning apps pick one. CubieKids teaches in both: English, Bangla and — if a parent turns the section on — Arabic letters, traced with a finger, said aloud, and attached to a word and a picture.
Around the letters sits the rest of a school day. Phonics. Counting and sums pitched at the child’s age, times tables, taka coins and notes, telling the time, fractions. Step-by-step lessons, science and world facts. Bilingual folk tales whose harder words can be tapped for a meaning, and a quiz at the end of each. Rhymes and songs. A dozen games — puzzle, colouring, shadow match, memory, odd one out, word builder, spelling bee, logic puzzles, a first coding game and a one-minute quiz battle. Speaking practice is scored by the phone’s own speech recognition, and Cubie, the buddy, answers from replies written into the app, with no internet at all.
A two-year-old, a five-year-old, a seven-year-old and a ten-year-old each get their own home screen, their own colours and their own lessons. None of them is handed a smaller version of something built for an older child.
Parent mode sits behind a PIN: progress per subject, a daily time limit and a bedtime, at most one reminder a day, a profile for each child, the whole app in English or Bangla, and optional cloud backup restored with a family code or an email and PIN.
There are no ads, no tracking and nothing is sold. Every lesson works offline, and learning data stays on the phone unless a parent turns backup on. It is built to follow Google Play’s Families policy, COPPA and GDPR.
Stories, lessons and recorded voices are written and published from an admin dashboard, and there is a website editor and a builder for the app’s own sections — so new content, and even new sections, reach a phone without shipping a new version. The packs come from a Node, Express and SQLite server behind Docker and Caddy, and every picture and recording is checked against its SHA-256 on the phone before it is used.
The app itself is free. CubieKids Plus is an optional monthly or yearly subscription for the stories, lessons, rhymes, pictures and topics marked Plus, and a skill-by-skill report for each child; on the yearly plan a parent can record their own voice for the app to read in. Everything else stays free.