Academics
NameTots
Your name is your first book. A grown-up types the child's name (and a few family names), and the child's own letters come first: tap to hear them, hunt for pictures that start with the same letter, build the name from letter tiles, trace each letter, and print a tiny book about the family. No score, no timer, no account. Names stay on this device. 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 Hootsie
#A21D5B Characters who teach
Meet the cast
NameTots' friends each do one thing with the letters of a name. Firsty always stands at the front, because your first letter is your own. Dilly lines the letters up in order so they spell the name. Trailo leaves a trail that traces each letter's shape. Hootsie the owl (the mentor) asks which picture starts with the same letter as your name.
Firsty
always stands at the FRONT of a name: the first letter is your own
Dilly
A yellow duckling who lines the letters up in order, left to right, so they spell the name
Trailo
A garden snail whose shiny trail traces the shape of each letter
Hootsie
asks which picture starts with the same letter as your name
What's inside
Learning goal
Your name is your first book. A grown-up types the child's name (and a few family names), and the child's own letters come first: tap to hear them, hunt for pictures that start with the same letter, build the name from letter tiles, trace each letter, and print a tiny book about the family. No score, no timer, no account. Names stay on this device. Ages 3-5.
Mentored by Hootsie — no data leaves the device.
How NameTots 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