Tähetark: Letters & Numbers

Tähetark is a bilingual learning game where your child practices letters, phonics, reading, numbers, counting and first math — all in one app, in a real human voice. Made for preschoolers and kindergarten-age children: Otto, a friendly owl, reads every instruction and word aloud, so your child doesn't need to read yet.

🦉 MEETS YOUR CHILD WHERE THEY ARE
Tähetark never asks how old your child is. It tracks every letter, sound and number separately and keeps your child right at the level that fits them now:
• doing well — the task gets one step harder;
• a mistake — Otto stays on it and brings it back again soon;
• a new group of letters or numbers opens only once the previous one is solid;
• new material is added gradually, always when your child is doing well.
The game stays mostly on a path of small wins, nothing can be lost, and every session ends on a success. This is simple rule-based logic, not a "smart" black box — you can always see why the game showed what it did.

📚 RESEARCH-BACKED
Behind every mechanic is published learning-science research and the Estonian national preschool curriculum (Tähetark is aligned with the curriculum, not certified by it):
• Spaced repetition: learned letters, words and numbers return at ever-longer intervals — the spacing that research links to lasting memory.
• Active recall, not prompting: your child retrieves the answer themselves; progress comes only from getting it right.
• Estonian letters by the phonics method teachers use: the child hears the sound before the name.
• English follows the phonics order (s, a, t, p, i, n) so children can blend simple words early.
• Numbers are built from blocks and grouped in fives and tens: a child sees that 7 is "5 and 2" and 14 is "ten and 4".
• Praise is for effort, not the child ("you practiced and found it!") — as process-praise research recommends.

🎮 WHAT'S INSIDE
• 28 different learning-game types: letters, sounds, reading, numbers, counting, math, colors and shapes.
• 9 bonus games the child unlocks with stars earned by learning: coloring book, balloon party, fishing, music party, maze, jigsaw, tangram, star ride and construction site.
• Stars are earned only by learning — bonus games spend stars, they never give them. So it's your child's own effort that unlocks the fun.

🗣️ A REAL HUMAN VOICE
Every letter, number, word and cheer is a real human voice — the app's maker, one dad, recorded them himself while building the game for his own son.

🌐 TWO LANGUAGES IN ONE
Fully bilingual: Estonian and English each have their own letter order, vocabulary and voice — two real learning paths, not one translated from the other.

🛡️ HONEST AND CALM
• One-time purchase, no recurring fees, no subscription: pay once, the game is your child's for good.
• No ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Tähetark collects no data about your child and sells none.
• No loot boxes, no random prizes, no timers, no pressure to spend — every bonus game shows a fixed star price the child calmly saves toward.
• After about 15–20 minutes Otto gets sleepy and suggests continuing tomorrow — a gentle nudge, not a lock.
• Works fully offline.

There's no big company or investor behind Tähetark. It's made by one dad, Martti Randma, for his own son — and now for your child too.

Recent changes:
A big sound and gameplay update!

• Every voice re-recorded — a warm, happy real dad's voice (all of Estonian, more English too)
• Letters are now taught as sounds: K = "k", M = "mmm" — so letters blend into words
• Rocket game reborn: real obstacles to weave through, and ever more exciting
• Dozens of polish fixes across the games: baskets, odd-one-out, shadow match, fishing, music party
• Smoother learning flow — straight on after a correct answer, no waiting