Changelog

A gentle nudge to come back each day — built for little children, so it's all encouragement and no pressure.

• A daily streak on the home screen counts the days your child has played in a row, with a warm "nice!" rather than any "don't lose it!" guilt.
• A small daily goal fills up as they play, and celebrates the moment it's reached — a few short goes is all it takes.
• Miss a day? The streak gives you a day's grace before it resets — life happens.
• Tap it to open the weekly recap. As always: no ads, no sign-up, fully offline.

Little read-along books, built from only the sounds your child has met — so they can actually read them, one word at a time.

• Three first books to start — Sam and the Cat, The Big Fish and Jess and the Kite — each stepping up through the phonics path (first words, two-letter sounds, then magic-e).
• "Read to me" walks the page word by word, highlighting and sounding each one, then reads the whole sentence — and your child can tap any word to hear it again.
• Every word is decodable: it uses only the letter-sounds and sight words from the learning path, so reading feels like a win, not a guess.
• Find it on the home screen under Story time. No ads, no sign-up, fully offline.

A small touch: the logo now does the same trick the whole game is built on — a letter that turns into a picture.

• The badge by the "Sound it First" name gently morphs an "s" into a snake and back, a wink to the shape-matched letter art inside the game.
• It's pure motion with no extra download, and it holds still for anyone who prefers reduced motion.

Open Progress and the first thing you see is your child's week — at a glance, with no sign-up and nothing sent anywhere.

• A seven-day strip shows which days your child practised and how much they earned, with today highlighted and a "days in a row" streak to keep the habit going.
• Headline tiles for the week: stars earned, goes played, and the current streak.
• "Going strong" and "Worth another go" chips show exactly which sounds your child met this week, split into the ones that are sticking and the ones to revisit.
• It's all worked out on your own device from the play that already happens — private by design, and it works fully offline.

The same game, set up for the carpet. A teacher can now teach the whole phonics path straight from the board and see, at a glance, which sounds the class needs to revisit.

• A phonics path laid out in teaching order — the eight-course synthetic-phonics spine, each course showing what a child can do after it, with one tap to teach that pack to the whole group in calm, no-pressure practice.
• A class snapshot that pools every student's progress into one view: the sounds the class as a whole is weakest on, so you know exactly what to reteach together.
• A class roster to switch between students and jump to each child's own progress.
• Open it from Settings → For teachers, or from the progress screen. As always: no ads, no sign-up, and it works fully offline.

The biggest update yet. A complete early-reading journey now picks up where the alphabet leaves off, alongside a wave of vocabulary packs and a redesigned, full-screen home.

A step-by-step path to reading

• Listening Ears: tunes a child's ear to the first sound in a word, before any letters are involved.
• Blending: sounds a word out one letter at a time, then says the whole word ("c, a, t, cat!"), so the jump from single letters to real words is gentle.
• Word families: rhyming groups like -at, -ig and -un, where swapping one letter makes a new word.
• Two-letter sounds: the digraphs sh, ch, th and friends, where two letters team up to make one sound.
• Sound blends: clusters like bl, st and tr at the start and end of words.
• Magic-e: how a silent e on the end turns "cap" into "cape" and "kit" into "kite".
• Sight words: the common little words ("the", "was", "you") that are learned by sight rather than sounded out.
• Reading sentences: short, decodable sentences read left to right, with each word highlighted as the child goes.

New vocabulary packs

• Eleven picture packs to grow everyday words: food, family, body, clothes, transport, weather, feelings, home, nature, opposites and action words.
• Every pack works as both a "find it" round and a flashcard-style practice, so the same words can be met more than one way.

A clearer home that fits every screen

• The home screen groups everything into plain sections: Phonics & reading, Words & pictures, and Numbers & maths.
• The whole app now uses the full screen on tablets and computers, and stays tidy and tap-friendly on phones.
• A "View curriculum" button on each pack shows exactly what your child will be taught, so you can check the content at a glance before they start.

Safety and polish

• Real photos for picture packs are in the works, built safety-first: an adult hand-approves every image in a private tool before any child can see it. Not switched on yet.
• Buttons that always fit their words, no more cut-off pictures, and friendlier sounds: the blend packs play a clean recorded sound and then the whole word.

Please note: this is early-release content and some of the learning material may still need improving. We're refining it with feedback, so tell us anything that looks off.

Find it now looks and feels like the rest of the game, the controls are consistent across every mode, and the website got a refresh.

• Find it uses the same shape-matched morph pictures as the rest of the game, with its own morph-or-emoji choice so you can pick the style your child responds to.
• Every mode (Race, Find it and Practice) now shares the same top controls in the same place: sound on or off, game settings, settings and exit.
• The setup screen shows a looping countdown clock, so you can see exactly how long the picture takes to grow at each speed before you start.
• In Morphs mode the letter-case option is hidden, since morph pictures always show capitals, so there is one less confusing choice.
• Word and picture packs lay out as neat tiles or pills that never spill off the screen or cut a word in half.
• A refreshed marketing website, with this changelog and a public roadmap you can follow.

A memory trick built into the art itself: every letter grows into a picture that shares its shape and its sound, so the letter and what it says stick together.

• All 26 letters now grow into a picture that shares their shape and sound: s into a snake, t into a tree, h into a house.
• The hero animations on the website show the real morphs in motion, so you can see the effect before you play.
• Choose your picture style per game: the new animated morphs, or the classic emoji art.
• Plenty of art polish: grapes, rocket, cat, egg and more were redrawn and cleaned up for clearer shapes.
• Fixed Find it cards that were showing the wrong picture for a letter.

The game grew beyond letters, and grown-ups got a way to see how each child is doing.

• New packs beyond letters: Numbers, Shapes, Colours and Animals, plus early maths with adding, taking away and times tables.
• A parent progress dashboard that shows what each child has mastered and what still needs more practice.
• A sticker book that unlocks as lifetime stars add up, to keep children coming back.
• Separate player profiles, each with their own progress and stars, and a colour picker for races.
• A home-screen redesign and a smoother, auto-updating offline app that quietly refreshes itself.

The first version families could actually play: the core "sound it first" race, plus the foundations the rest of the game is built on.

• The core race: read the letter, call its sound before the picture grows, and score more the earlier you call it.
• Find it mode: hear a sound and tap the matching picture, getting gently harder as a child improves.
• Natural Australian, American and British voices, with male or female options, real letter sounds, and closed captions for the words on screen.
• Spaced repetition quietly brings back the letters a child finds tricky, so practice lands where it is needed.
• One to five player races with named players and a medal podium to finish on.
• Works fully offline with no ads and no sign-up, and the first marketing site went live.