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Three sounds.
One word.
That is reading.

A free app for children learning to read English as a second language. It starts at the letters, works offline, and asks for no account.

Download Alpha English on the App Store iPhone and iPad
Ages 4+

cat

That moment is the whole app.

Who it is for

Children learning to read English, in homes where nobody speaks it.

At the kitchen table A child works through a stage on a phone, with a parent who does not need to speak English to help.
In a classroom No licences, no sign-in, no Wi-Fi. Print the cards for the children without a device.
Wherever the connection is not A shared phone with no SIM, a data cap, a school with no network. None of it changes anything.

Built for young learners first, which is why the pictures and the voice are simple. The method underneath is how reading is taught at any age.

The sound it makes, not its name

Every sound recorded by a real person. A synthesiser would say ess, and ess does not blend into anything.

s

which one starts with this sound?

Sentences you can actually read

Every phrase is built only from sounds already taught. Nothing left to guess at.

I tap the tin.

a pin is in it.

the pan is tan.

Cards you can print

The whole deck in A4 or US Letter. Same letters, same words, same shapes as the screen.

What they learn

World 1 is the alphabet: the sounds English letters make, and how they join into words.

Letter sounds All twenty-six, one at a time, in a human voice.
Blending Pushing sounds together until a word appears.
Sight words The six that break the rules, taught before the rules.
First words A picture with every word, so meaning arrives with the spelling.
Writing Tracing each letter with a finger as it is learned.
Saying it Read each word out loud. Never scored, never judged on accent.

Later worlds carry on from there, once the letters are secure.

Why it does not start at A

These six make more real words than any other six in English.

sat, pin, tap, nap, tin, spin. A child reads a real word in the first session instead of waiting for the letter T to come round. The other twenty letters follow across three more stages.

What it will never do

Not as a paid tier or a setting to find. As the only way it works.

No adsNot banners, not videos, not sponsored anything.
No purchasesEverything unlocked from the first launch.
No accountNo email, no password, nothing to register.
No data collectedNothing is uploaded. There is nowhere to upload to.
No connection neededWorks on a plane, in a car, on a phone with no SIM.

Menus in four languages

The letters, words and audio stay English. That is the subject being taught.

English Español Tiếng Việt ไทย

Teachers, schools and programmes

Install it on every device in the room. Copy the printed decks as many times as you need. Nothing to buy, sign, or ask us for.

Why it is free

The families this was built for are the ones least able to pay for it. Made in Dubai by Coding Phantom, and staying free.

Start with the sounds.

Free. iPhone and iPad, ages 4+.

Download Alpha English on the App Store