For families, teachers and learners of any age
This week’s spelling list, turned into ten minutes of practice they’ll ask for.
Paste the words from school. SpellChirp adds kid-friendly definitions and audio, turns them into quizzes, games and a story starring your child — and you grade with one tap.
- No card, no account needed
- No adverts, ever
- Kindergarten to adult
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Families
The list from school, ten minutes a night.
Paste Monday’s words and practise them all week, with a story, games and a Friday test at the end.
Start freeTeachers
One class code for the whole term.
Post each week’s list once and it lands on every family’s dashboard. Class figures only, never a child’s name.
How classes workTeens & adult learners
Kindergarten to grade 12, then Adult learner.
Plain-English definitions and audio suit anyone learning English, and the placement test starts you at the right level.
Building vocabularyHow it works
Three steps, ten minutes a day
1 · Add the words
Paste or type the school list. Each word hatches with a kid-friendly definition, audio and syllables — edit anything.
2 · Practise together
They type, write or listen; you grade with one tap — green “got it” or amber “needs work”.
3 · Watch the flock grow
A word spelled right on three different days fledges and perches in your child’s tree. Progress by day, week and month.
How a week goes, from the list to the test
- Mon
Paste the list
Two minutes. Every word comes back with a meaning, audio and syllables.
- Tue–Thu
Ten minutes a night
A story chapter, a practice session or a game — new words first, the tricky ones again.
- Fri
The test, rehearsed
Each word read out once, no hints. The score sits beside last week’s.
- Sun
See what stuck
Progress names the words to look at again — on Flock, it arrives as an email.
Practice modes
Every word, four ways in
Typing
A big, friendly keyboard for small fingers. Letter tiles pop in as they type.
Handwriting
Thick ink on a full-width canvas, then a hand-off to a grown-up to grade.
Listening
Clear pronunciation audio for every word — spell what you hear.
Saying it aloud
They spell it out loud into the mic; you listen back and grade it.
Ten quiz types, mixed so no two nights are alike
- Listen & type
- Handwriting
- Definition match
- Fill in the blank
- Listening match
- Say it aloud
- Multiple choice
- Scrambled letters
- Missing letters
- Speed round
Story Mode
Their spelling words, written into a story starring them
Story Mode paces the week’s words into chapters — one a day, about ten minutes each — and wraps an adventure round them. Your child picks the world, and the prose is pitched at their reading level so the story is always easier than the words it teaches. No list this week? 288 built-in words across sixteen graded stages, free and unlimited.
Dragon Slayer · chapter 2 of 4
ExampleThe bridge was so fragile that Maya crossed one slow step at a time.
Now spell the word you just read
- Dragon Slayer
- Knights of the King
- The Royal Court
- Detective
- Pirate Treasure
- Space Explorer
- Magic School
- Dinosaur Dig
- Deep Sea
- Jungle Expedition
- Superhero
- Friendly Monsters
- The Horse Ranch
- The Cup Final
- Arctic Expedition
- Time Travel
- Secret Agent
- The Museum Job
- Shipwrecked
- Inside the Game
- …or type your own
Beyond the list
Everything else the week needs
The Friday test
Each word read aloud, no letters, no choices, one go. Each score sits beside the last, so you can see the trend.
10 word games
Word Pop, Word Search, Secret Code, Word Shapes, Crossword, Spot the Impostor, Syllable Train, Pairs in the Nest, Feather the Chick, Flight Path — all built from their own list.
Printable sheets
Look-cover-write-check, test sheets, flashcards, word search, crossword, secret code, word shapes and a certificate for the fridge.
Why they got it wrong
SpellChirp spots the rule behind a misspelling — a doubled letter, a silent e — and says what to practise.
Reading and access
A dyslexia-friendly font, wider letter spacing, slower speech and timers you can switch off — free on both plans.
A link for grandparents
A read-only page of the words they’ve mastered, for the family who want to cheer from afar.
Progress you can see
Know exactly which words need one more look
Daily, weekly and monthly views. Mastered words fly to the flock; tricky ones wait in the nest as amber chips — tap any word for its full attempt history. On Flock, a Sunday email sums up the week.
Maya · words mastered Example
+9 in August
32
FLEDGED
4
IN THE NEST
6
DAY STREAK
Our promises
Built for children, so built to be trusted
Homework is never gated.
Practice on your child’s own list is unlimited on the free plan, and always will be.
Nothing a child does is metered.
No hearts, no energy, no timers to wait out. Seeds belong to the grown-up’s account.
No adverts, no chat, no trackers.
Nothing on screen but their words. Nothing a child writes is sold or used to train anything.
Leaving is as easy as joining.
Cancel in one tap, export everything as a file, or delete the account and all of it goes.
The detail is in privacy for kids.
Free word lists
Spelling words for every grade, kindergarten to 12th
288 words across sixteen graded stages, each with a kid-sized definition and the spelling pattern it teaches. Free to read, no account needed — plus the Dolch, Fry and National Curriculum lists.
Word of the Day, chirped to your inbox
One great word every morning, pitched to the age you pick. Free, and one click to stop.
Pricing
Free to start. Fair for families.
The free plan is the whole practice loop. Flock adds more children and more of the grown-up’s tools.
Nest
Everything a child needs for the week’s list.
$0forever
- Story Mode and Open Skies — every stage, free forever
- Practice on your own list, as many words as you like
- All ten quiz types, ten word games and the Friday test
- Five printable sheets, including test sheets and flashcards
- 10 seeds a month — one story written for your list
- 1 child · 1 word quest at a time
Out of seeds? Quests still work — they use the classic story.
Start freeFlock
One price for the whole family.
$5.99per month
Everything in Nest, plus
- Up to 4 children, each with their own words
- Up to 20 word quests at once
- 100 seeds a month — ten written stories (50 during the trial)
- Photo import — snap the worksheet instead of typing it
- Carry a quest straight on to the next chapter, for the test that moved to Wednesday
- All nine printables, adding the certificate, crossword, secret code and word shapes
- Every Friday test score kept, and drills for the rule behind a mistake
- The Sunday email: how the week went, in your inbox
Cancel in Settings before day 14 and you pay nothing.
Not ready to subscribe? Buy seeds once.
50 for $3.99 · 150 for $8.99 · they never expire
No adverts on either plan. A lapsed plan never deletes anything — it goes back to Nest.
Questions parents ask
FAQ
Any age from about 5 up — there is no ceiling. Younger children lean on the audio, the letter tiles and the handwriting canvas; older learners get definition matching, fill-in-the-blank and the speed round. The grade picker runs from kindergarten to grade 12 and then Adult learner, and the built-in word bank runs from three-letter words to spelling-bee finals, with Open Skies continuing past the last stage indefinitely.
Each word is enriched automatically with an age-appropriate definition, a phonetic respelling, audio and example sentences. A parent reviews everything before it reaches their child and can edit any field, so a word that means something particular in your child's class means that in the app too.
No. SpellChirp is built for one device passed back and forth — the child spells, then hands it over for the one-tap grade. If they do have their own tablet, sign in there as well and the words and progress sync across both.
Story Mode turns a week's spelling words into an adventure story, one chapter a day, with the child named as the hero. They choose the setting — dragon slayer, detective, pirate treasure, magic school, space explorer and eleven more, or type their own — and each word appears inside a real sentence that shows what it means, in exactly the form they have to spell.
No. There is no advertising on either plan, no messaging, and no other users. The only things on screen are your child's own words and the practice around them. This is a product used by children under 13, and the compliance cost of doing advertising properly there is larger than the revenue would be.
The free plan, Nest, costs nothing and has no time limit: unlimited Story Mode, unlimited practice on your child's own word list, as many words a week as you like, every practice mode and game, the Friday test, five printable sheets, full progress history and 10 seeds a month for written stories. The paid plan, Flock, is $5.99 a month or $49 a year, starts with a 14-day free trial, and adds up to 4 children, up to 20 word quests at once, photo import of a worksheet, the choice to carry a quest straight on to its next chapter, all nine printables, every Friday test score, the Sunday email report and 100 seeds a month.
Read all 18 questions — ages, devices, privacy, offline use and billing.
Got this week’s list? Start tonight.
Two questions to set up, then the first ten minutes. No card, and no account unless you want one.