About Kids' Lab

How we work

• One subject per app. Geography, history, chemistry, art, maths, drawing: each app does one thing, with no menus to get lost in.
• Short rounds, instant feedback. Ten questions or sixty seconds, a result the child can see at a glance, and a picture of progress that grows over time.
• One design system. All the apps share the same shapes, colours, type and components, so a child who knows one knows them all — and so our volunteers can build the next one quickly.
• Open data, checked by people. Countries from Natural Earth and Wikidata, elements from a public periodic table, paintings from Wikimedia Commons — and every fact read over by a person before it ships.

Accessibility

We want every child to be able to use our apps, including children who use a screen reader, who cannot tell some colours apart, or who need more time.

• Every button, card and picture has a label a screen reader can speak, in all five languages.
• Right and wrong are never shown by colour alone: there is always a word, a tick or a number as well.
• Buttons are big and far apart, made for small fingers; nothing requires precise dragging.
• Timed rounds are optional. The default is ten questions with no clock.
• Text uses a clear typeface at generous sizes, and the apps respect the system setting for reduced motion.

If something in an app is hard for your child to use, please tell us at hello@kidslab.app. We treat accessibility problems as bugs.

Community

The apps are made by volunteers and paid for by nobody: there are no ads, no sales and no subscriptions. We welcome teachers who want to try the apps in class, native speakers who can check a translation, parents with ideas, and developers who want to build the next app on our design system.