Lockodile™
Screen time, earned.
Your child reads a story aloud, solves math, spells or plays a learning game to unlock their favorite apps for the minutes you choose. Set it up once and it runs itself: no nagging, no arguments.
Coming soon to the App Store for iPad
Stories with questions for readers, plus math, spelling, science, music, languages and coding. Picture games like matching, counting and tracing for pre-readers.
How it works
Every challenge works the same way. Pick one to watch it.
Grows with your child
The challenges above are a small sample. Setup picks starting settings for your child's age, and you can change any of them later.
Ages 3–5
Picture games with every instruction spoken: matching, counting, tracing, puzzles, music, science, rhymes and languages. No reading needed.
Ages 6–7
Short stories read aloud with gentle scoring, plus first steps in charts, coding, math and spelling.
Ages 8–10
Stories with questions afterward, multiplication to long division, fractions and decimals, spelling with prefixes and suffixes, and coding with bugs to find and fix.
Ages 11–12
Stories about inventors, ancient worlds and science, ratios, percents and negative numbers, spelling with Latin and Greek roots, coding with loops and if-then rules, bar and line graphs and coordinates, cells and body systems in science, sentences in Spanish, French and German, bass clef and intervals in music, and similes and metaphors, with stricter scoring, no word highlighting and harder levels.
Something new every week
New stories, spelling lists, science facts, rhymes and language words arrive every week, with no app update to install. Everyone gets the week's first new story.
Read real books
With Lockodile Plus, add PDF and EPUB books, several at once, or photos of book pages. Your child reads a part at a time and picks up from a bookmark, with the book's pictures between paragraphs.
You set the rules
Choose which challenges count, how many minutes they earn and the daily limit. Parent settings sit behind your PIN.
Free, or Lockodile Plus
Locking apps and earning time always work for free. Plus adds more to learn.
Free
$0
- Lock the apps you choose until a challenge is done
- Reading aloud with the starter stories
- Matching and Counting games
- The first new story each week
Lockodile Plus
$4.99 a month or $39.99 a year
The first 7 days are free.
- Math, Spelling, Tracing, Puzzle, Charts, Music, Science, Rhymes, Languages and Coding games
- Story questions and story sets for targeted practice
- Your own stories and books
- Everything new each week
- Progress reports by level and grade, to share as a PDF
Stays on the iPad
Reading and answers are checked on the iPad, never sent anywhere.
No ads
Nothing to tap away from.
No Lockodile account
Nothing to register. Lockodile Plus is paid through your Apple ID, like any App Store subscription, and there's no tracking.