Planned capabilities

What Zivoo is being designed to do

Every activity happens by talking and listening. These are planned, and details may change before launch.

Word practice

Saying, spelling and understanding are different things.

Pronunciation: Zivoo can model how a word sounds and invite your child to say it back. It isn’t a pronunciation test.
Spelling: Letters are asked for one at a time, so the check is about the letters, not how the word sounded.
Understanding: Using a word in their own sentence shows understanding better than repeating it does.

A note on speech recognition. When Zivoo recognises a word, it has matched what it heard to a word it knows. That doesn’t confirm the word was pronounced correctly. Young voices, accents and background noise can all lead it to mishear, so treat it as a practice partner, not an assessment.

Spelling and basic maths

Letters and numbers, out loud.

Your child spells a word letter by letter, or answers a short counting, adding or taking-away question in everyday language.

“Can you spell frog?”
“Four ducks, and one flies away. How many are left?”

Some letters sound alike, like B and D. We’re designing spelling with that in mind.

A girl at a table holding up three fingers while talking to Zivoo during a counting activity.

A parent and child lying on a bed in the evening, smiling as they listen to Zivoo on the bedside table.

Storytelling and story reflection

Stories to listen to, shape and talk about.

Zivoo is designed to tell short stories, sometimes asking what should happen next. Afterwards, story reflection asks a few gentle questions about what happened and why.

“How do you think the bear felt when the rain started?”

Companion app and connection

You choose. Zivoo connects.

The companion app is planned for setup, choosing activities and seeing what was practised. The screens shown are concepts, not the finished app.

Zivoo needs home Wi-Fi to hold conversations and isn’t designed to work offline. Replies can take a moment, especially on a slower connection.

Two parents looking at a concept version of the Zivoo app on a phone, with Zivoo on the table.

Future idea · not planned for the first release

Activity cards

We’re exploring cards a child could hold up to Zivoo to start a story or activity, using short-range NFC. It’s only an idea for now and may never be made.

View the Zivoo product page

Pre-order waitlist

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Joining means we’ll email you when pre-orders open. It isn’t an order or a reservation.

What we ask for, and why

Your email, so we can tell you when pre-orders open.
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Development updates only if you tick the separate box.
Nothing about your children.