Sparkpath is for young children. We collect as little as possible, and we never sell anything.
You don't create a login. A child's name and avatar are stored only on your own device — they are never sent to us. Our servers only ever see an anonymous id and which skills were practiced, so we can show progress across visits.
Reading activities listen to your child speak so we can check the answer. That speech is used only to score the attempt and is not stored by us as a recording.
The optional Word Vault (off unless a parent turns it on) lets your child save a recording of themselves reading. Those recordings are stored on your device only — they are never uploaded to us or anyone else. You can play them back, delete any one, or delete them all at any time from the Parent tab. Turning the feature off can delete them too.
There are no advertisements anywhere in Sparkpath, and no third-party advertising trackers on the child's screens. We don't sell or share personal information.
Kioko coaches your child to sound words out and can write short practice stories. Kioko never reads a word for your child, and story text is checked against a fixed, kid-safe word list before it is ever shown — so only decodable, appropriate words reach your child.
Sparkpath is an early product built for children ages 2–8, with COPPA in mind. This page describes how it works today; as we add features (like sharing a reading with a grandparent), we'll add the proper parental-consent steps before anything a child records could leave the device.
See also: how the green check works.