Academics
BesideTots
Two children, two towers, side by side. Build your own tower while your friend builds theirs — on one screen together, or on two devices at one table. When your towers match, the grown-up card notices. No winner, no score, a tumble is just funny. Ages 3–5.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 10 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.
Mentored by Dusky
#B45309 Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Two children build side by side. Dusky the lamp keeps the table calm and dims it when time is up; Tottle is the block who tumbles (and that is funny, never a failure); Twinny notices the moment two towers are the same height.
Dusky
opens the table and dims it gently when the door closes
Tottle
A wobbly block - shows that a tumble is part of building, never a loss
Twinny
A mirror-bright block - notices when two towers match
What's inside
Learning goal
Two children, two towers, side by side. Build your own tower while your friend builds theirs — on one screen together, or on two devices at one table. When your towers match, the grown-up card notices. No winner, no score, a tumble is just funny. Ages 3–5.
Mentored by Dusky — no data leaves the device.
How BesideTots handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages