Quests, coins and real school skills

Five minutes a day. And they ask for one more.

Brainy turns their curriculum into a short daily game for ages 5 to 11. Maths, Quantitative and Verbal Reasoning, and English Grammar, pitched at your child's class and getting harder as they get better.

The Brainy home screen showing the daily quest and subject grid

How it works

Set it up once, hand over the device, and check the report when you want to.

You set it up

Enter their first name and age. Brainy works out the class (a 7-year-old is Basic 3 here, Year 3 in Britain, Grade 2 in America), and you can change it.

They play

Ten questions, about five minutes. They earn coins, keep a streak, and collect characters and pets. There are no lives to lose and no way to fail.

You see what to help with

The grown-up area shows what is going well, what is not, the actual questions they got wrong, and one practical thing to try away from the screen.

Built on the relevant curriculum

Nigerian UBE is complete for Basic 1–6 across Mathematics, Quantitative Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning and English Grammar. The British National Curriculum and American Common Core packs are maths across every class — Years 1–6 and Kindergarten–Grade 5 — with the other subjects still to come. Switching is built in and each child keeps separate progress in each curriculum, so nothing is lost when the rest lands.

🔢MathematicsBasic 1–6 · ready
🧮Quantitative ReasoningBasic 1–6 · ready
🔤Verbal ReasoningBasic 1–6 · ready
📖English GrammarBasic 1–6 · ready
🔬Science & Technologycoming soon
🌍Social Studiescoming soon
🏛️Historycoming soon
💻Computer Studiescoming soon

Every skill in every class is listed and counted, along with what is still missing and what changed when. Read it before you choose a curriculum, especially if your child is British or American.

See exactly what is in each curriculum
The grown-up progress report showing class readiness and topics to help with

A report that tells you what to do

Not a wall of numbers. The three things worth acting on, in under a minute.

  • Class readiness. How much of their own year they have actually mastered.
  • What is slipping. Skills they had, then stopped practising.
  • The real questions they missed, with what they answered.
  • One thing to try at home for each weak topic, away from the screen.
  • Retention, measured properly: did it stick when it came back a week later?

Designed for how children actually behave

Every one of these is a deliberate decision, not an oversight.

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No way to fail

No lives, no lock-outs. A wrong answer shows the right one, explains it in a sentence, and asks again later. Every quest pays coins, however it went.

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It adapts quietly

Questions get harder as they improve and easier when they struggle, without ever telling the child that happened. You can pin the level yourself if you prefer.

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Read aloud

Long questions are read out automatically. A child who can do the maths shouldn't be marked down for not yet reading "altogether".

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No timer by default

Timing a child who is still building fluency mostly measures anxiety. There is a race mode if they want one. You turn it on, and you set the length.

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Someone who looks like them

Characters across the full range of skin tones, free from the first screen, plus pets to collect with earned coins.

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Brothers and sisters

Several children on one tablet, each with their own progress, coins and report. Moving to a new device is a sign-in.

Their answers never leave. Everything else is yours to switch off.

This is a children's app, so the rule is that what they type and what they get wrong stays on the tablet, and every switch is yours. Here is the whole list, in plain words.

  • Your child never has an account. No login, no password, nothing to sign in to. You hold the account, and no version of Brainy will give them one.
  • Their answers stay on the tablet. What they got wrong, when they played, the questions they were asked: all of it lives in this browser and is never uploaded. There is no setting that changes it.
  • Their scores are kept in your account. That is what the account is for: a new tablet, or this one after you install it to the home screen, picks up exactly where they left off instead of starting again. We keep their first name, age, class, mastery scores, coins and streak. We refuse their session history and anything they typed, and the server rejects an upload containing them. One tap in the grown-up area switches it off and deletes what we held.
  • Your email, when you register. Your access is attached to it, so it can be restored if this tablet is lost or replaced, and so a free place is held for you rather than for whoever happens to have the code. We write to you about your own access and nothing else. There is no mailing list.
  • Anonymous usage counts, on by default. How often Brainy is opened, how many questions were answered, which topics score worst, and a random code so one tablet is not counted twice. It is how we find a question that is wrong or a topic we pitched badly. Never a name, never an age, never anything typed, and never used for advertising. Setup says so with the box ticked, and one tap in the grown-up area switches it off and deletes the code and the counts kept under it.
  • No advertising, in any version, ever.
  • No third-party code in the app at all. These marketing pages count visits with Google Analytics, like most websites. The app itself has no analytics, no Google script and nothing embedded, and the build refuses to publish if that ever changes.
  • No chat and no contact with other children. There is nobody else in the app.

Both of those are yours to change whenever you like, from the grown-up area, in one tap. Turning either off stops us collecting and deletes what was already collected.

Read the full privacy notice

Works on any phone, tablet or laptop

Brainy asks you to add it to the home screen first, then you set up inside it. That way it is set up once, in the place your child will actually open it, and it plays offline from then on.

Coming soon

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Start with maths, free

Your child's class in Mathematics, and every earlier class as revision, is free for everybody, permanently. No card, no time limit, and no account needed to try it.

₦5,000/year

opens every other subject for every child on your tablet. Pay by card or bank transfer from the grown-up area inside the app, whenever you are ready.

Get started free