For children aged 4–10Children
Big friendly artwork, no accounts, no adverts and nothing to buy. Reading aloud should not feel like being tested, so nothing here marks a child wrong.
For children aged 4–10
The reading app that listens to your child
Free, works without internet, and never records your child's voice.
A child picks a story, hears it read with every word highlighted, then reads it back aloud. Boodo follows along word by word, marks what was read correctly, and quietly collects the difficult words to practise afterwards — without ever interrupting mid-sentence.
Coming soon. Boodo is not yet on the stores. This page will link to it as soon as it is published.
- 82 stories are inside the app the moment you install it
- No purchases, no subscription, no advertising
How Boodo works
Five steps, in the same order every time, so a child always knows what comes next.
Listen to the story
The story is read aloud with each word highlighted as it is spoken, and the pages turn themselves. A child who cannot yet read a word still meets it.
Read it aloud
One sentence appears at a time. Your child reads it out; Boodo listens and turns each word green as it is read correctly.
Practise the tricky words
Words that were missed are gathered quietly — never corrected out loud mid-sentence — and practised at the end, on their own.
Answer a few questions
A short quiz on what happened in the story, so reading the words and understanding them stay connected.
Watch the progress add up
Stars, badges and a reading streak. A story counts as finished only when your child has listened, read, practised and passed.
What Boodo does
Everything below is in the app today.
Listens while your child reads
Speech recognition follows along word by word and marks what was read correctly. A missed word is noted, never announced.
Never records your child
Words are recognised, compared with the story, and the audio is discarded immediately. Boodo stores no recordings and uploads none.
Works with no internet
Eighty-two stories and every illustration are inside the app from the moment it is installed. No download to wait through and no account to make.
Keeps itself up to date
When there is a connection, new stories arrive in the background. A grown-up can restrict that to Wi-Fi.
Practice built from your child's own reading
The practice list is not a fixed set of words. It is the words that particular child found hard, in that particular story.
Comprehension quizzes
Each story ends with questions about what happened, so decoding and understanding are both part of finishing.
Progress worth showing
Stars, ten badges, reading streaks and a record of every story finished, kept per child.
Grown-up settings behind a gate
Settings, downloads and school connection sit behind a question a young child cannot answer.
Optional school connection
If a school gives you a code, a tablet can report that child's reading to their teacher. It is off until an adult turns it on.
Who Boodo is for
The same app, arriving differently depending on who set it up.
Parents and families
Install it, make a profile, hand over the tablet. Everything an adult needs — what has been read, whether new stories arrived, the privacy policy — is one screen behind the grown-up gate.
Schools
Connect a tablet to one child with a code. Reading is reported back to the school that asked for it, and to nobody else.
Teachers
Assign stories to a class, see who has read and which words a class finds hard, and set reading for the week.
Get Boodo
Install it, open a story, and start reading. There is no account to create and nothing to buy.
Coming soon. Boodo is not yet on the stores. This page will link to it as soon as it is published.
For iPhone, iPad and Android phones and tablets.
Common questions
- Is Boodo free?
- The stories are. Every story in the library is available to every child, with no subscription and no advertising. Two things are paid for separately, both optional: making your own story, and drawing your own character. Those spend credits you buy through the app store you installed Boodo from, and nothing in the library is ever locked behind them.
- Does Boodo record my child's voice?
- No. When your child reads aloud, the words are recognised, compared with the story, and the audio is discarded immediately. Boodo never stores or uploads a recording.
- Does Boodo work without internet?
- Yes. Stories and every illustration are inside the app when you install it, so it works on a plane, in a car, and in a home with no broadband. When there is a connection, new stories arrive in the background. Making a story or a character does need a connection, because it is made for you at the time.
- What age is Boodo for?
- Boodo is designed for children aged about four to ten.
- Does my child need an account?
- No. Children do not create accounts and there is nothing to sign in to. A profile is made on the device and the reading history stays there.
- How does making a story work?
- A grown-up answers a times-table question, picks what the story should be about and who it stars, and Boodo writes and illustrates it in a minute or two. It costs one story credit. If it fails, the credit is not spent.
- How do I get a refund?
- Purchases are handled by the app store you installed Boodo from, so refunds go through them rather than through us. If something went wrong with a story or a character you paid for, write to us as well and we will look at it.
- Which devices does Boodo run on?
- iPhone and iPad running iOS 18 or later, and Android phones and tablets running Android 8 or later.
Part of Aether Syntax
Aether SyntaxBoodo is made by Aether Syntax, a software company that builds mobile apps, websites and online tools for businesses of all sizes.
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