A glowing lantern in a night forest

Apple TV · Ages 2–6

Learning that gets off the couch.

An individualized preschool learning system that turns the living room into an interactive play space.

Spryling is in development for Apple TV. It is not on the App Store yet.

The category

Participatory screen time.

Defined against passive screen time. The child listens, thinks, responds, predicts, remembers, moves and chooses. Sessions have intentional beginnings and endings. Siblings participate together. Content changes according to learning need rather than engagement probability.

01

No single “level” for a child.

Mastery is tracked per skill, not per child. A four-year-old may count past twenty and still be early in rhyme, and Spryling treats those as two different states — because they are. Age is only the starting prior.

02

Siblings play the same adventure.

Two children of different ages get the same scene, the same story and the same surprise — and a different question each. The television is never split into “baby mode” and “big kid mode”.

03

Answer with your body, or don't.

With an iPhone as a Continuity Camera, children can step, jump, wave and hold a pose to answer. With every sensor off, the same activity is answered with the remote. Nothing is locked behind a camera.

How a session works

One shared adventure, with an ending.

  1. 1

    Everyone says who is playing.

    A parent picks the children; each child has their own learning identity on this Apple TV.

  2. 2

    Pick a way to play.

    Nine of them, from a ten-minute Quick Play to Story Time to Move Mode.

  3. 3

    Sprig runs the adventure.

    The lantern-carrying guide asks each child a question pitched to that child's own skill state, inside one shared world.

  4. 4

    It ends on purpose.

    Sessions have an ending. There is no infinite feed and no “just one more”.

Ways to play

Quick PlayDaily AdventureMove ModeStory TimeCozy TimeMusic & DanceSibling PlayFamily NightSurprise Me

Worlds

Ten worlds, one shared stage.

Six are open to every family. Four more come with a Family Membership.

Forest Trail world
Forest Trail
Ocean Reef world
Ocean Reef
Cozy Home world
Cozy Home
Space Station world
Space Station
Farm world
Farm
Moonlight Story Room world
Moonlight Story Room
Dinosaur Valley world
Dinosaur Valley Membership
Bug Meadow world
Bug Meadow Membership
Magic Garden world
Magic Garden Membership
Campfire world
Campfire Membership

What children practise

Ten domains of practice.

01Literacy
02Numeracy
03Phonological awareness
04Shapes and space
05Science and the world
06Social and emotional
07Executive function
08Gross motor
09Music and rhythm
10Creativity

The same skill returns in a new costume — a shape you point at today, an island you jump onto tomorrow, a window a robot needs the day after.

Sprig thinking beside a glowing lantern

Privacy

Personalized for them.
Private by design.

Your child's name never leaves the Apple TV.

The one exception is one you start yourself: you can ask us to learn how to say it, and only the name is sent.

Nothing biometric is ever built.

No face template, no voice print, no stored pose or gait, no camera recording. What the camera sees answers the question in front of your child and is discarded in the same frame.

Turning something off removes convenience, never access.

Camera off, play with the remote. Cloud off, progress stays local. Recognition off, the guide identifies players for the session only. A child is never punished because a parent chose the more private option.

No advertising, ever. No child-facing purchases.

No behavioural profiling, no open chat, no public profiles, no leaderboards, no loot boxes, no streaks to lose. Purchase surfaces sit behind a parental gate; a child only ever sees “More adventures are available with a grown-up”.

Spryling ships with cloud features switched off. The app is fully functional with no network at all.

Pricing

One family subscription.
Never per child.

Nothing is for sale yet — Spryling is not on the App Store.

Free Starter

Free

  • Six worlds, yours to keep
  • All nine ways to play
  • Every privacy feature
  • Up to 4 children

Free means free. No ads, ever. No trial that ends.

Family Membership

$69.99/year or $9.99/month

  • Four more worlds, only members can open them
  • Everything in Starter, unchanged
  • Up to 4 children — the same as Starter

One price for the whole family. We never charge per child.

A founding membership at $54.99/year is planned for families who join early; it comes off sale on 30 September 2026.

Sprig celebrating with a glowing lantern

The room is the input device.

Spryling is built for Apple TV, for ages roughly two to six, and for a living room with more than one child in it.