Free to start · Optional one-time Family Pack · iPhone, iPad & Mac
A real question from the app. Try answering it.
The difference
Drill apps mark an answer wrong and move on. Quest Academy teaches the skill first, and a “Show me how” button sits on every question — it walks through a similar problem step by step, so your child still solves their own.
Multiplying is adding equal groups fast. 4 × 3 means 4 groups with 3 in each.
4 × 3 = ?
What’s inside
Every subject has ten difficulty levels per grade. Three right in a row moves up; misses ease it back down. Parents choose which subjects are switched on.
Counting through fractions and decimals — plus telling time, money, measurement, shapes and word problems.
Hundreds of grade-leveled words read aloud, with letter-by-letter help and a look-cover-write mode when it’s quiet.
Sight words for early readers; vocabulary in context for older ones.
Capitals, punctuation, plurals, verb tense, contractions, homophones, prefixes and dialogue.
Short passages with questions on recall, inference and vocabulary — written for three grade bands.
All fifty states and capitals, continents, oceans, countries and landmarks.
Plus science facts between rounds — because kids like knowing that an octopus has three hearts.
Ten worlds
A theme changes everything — colours, rank ladder, reward name, even the encouragement. One child earns Medals as a Sergeant while another earns Gems as a Crown Princess, on the same device.
For parents
Everything for grown-ups sits behind a parent gate — including the one screen that actually changes your evening: the list of words your child keeps getting wrong.
Practice calendar
5 days practised this week · 118 questions · 91% accuracy ▲ up 6 pts
Trouble spots — spelling
Each comes back on a spaced schedule until it’s mastered.
Honest comparison
Khan Academy Kids is excellent and free; if your child needs full instruction in a subject, use it. Quest Academy is built for the practice half — privately, offline, and in a world your kid chose.
| Quest Academy | Typical practice app | |
|---|---|---|
| Works with no internet | Yes | No |
| Account required | None | Sign-up |
| Data collected | None | Usually |
| Advertising | None | Common |
| Cost | Free, optional one-time pack | Monthly subscription |
| Worked examples on every question | Yes | Rare |
| Spaced repetition of misses | Yes | Rare |
| Printable worksheets | Yes | Sometimes |
| Teaches a subject from scratch | No | Varies |
Why this exists
It started on paper. My son finished first grade and I wanted him to keep practising over the summer, so I made him worksheets — spelling, math, a sentence to write. My daughter was heading into kindergarten, so she got her own, with tracing letters and a box to draw in.
They liked them more than I expected, and the obvious next step was an app. Every one I looked at wanted an account, a subscription, or my kids’ attention for advertising. So I built this instead, for the two of them, and then kept going.
It’s free because it was made for one family first. The optional Family Pack exists so the project pays for itself — not so it can grow into something that needs your data.
— Tryg, Redding, California
Pricing
Every subject, every lesson and all the adaptive practice are free forever. The Family Pack is one payment — there is no subscription.
$0
Everything a child needs to learn.
$4.99 once
For households with more than one kid.
Nothing. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising SDK and no server receiving your child’s activity. Progress is stored on the device itself, and deleting the app erases it. On the App Store the privacy label reads “Data Not Collected.”
Completely. Download it once and it never needs a connection — on a plane, in the car, or anywhere the signal is thin.
Kindergarten through fifth grade. You pick a grade per child and the app adjusts from there, moving up or down automatically based on how they answer.
Yes. Each player has their own grade, world, progress, streak and trouble-spot list. Switching is one tap. The free version includes one player; the Family Pack removes the limit.
It teaches the procedures — every skill has a lesson with a picture model and worked examples, and “Show me how” is on every question. It won’t replace a full curriculum for a brand-new concept, which is why we recommend pairing it with Khan Academy.
No advertising at all. The only purchase lives in the parent area behind a gate, and is never shown to a child.
Free to start. No account, no ads, nothing to cancel.
Requires iOS 13 or later · iPhone, iPad and Mac