Keep it free

The promise

The full KindyWords mentor — voice cheers, marked-up pages, gentle feedback, every child in the family — is free, forever. Not a trial. It doesn’t expire. Because a family’s budget should never decide whether a six-year-old gets cheered on.

The honest maths

Every reply costs real money: AI reading of the handwriting, the voice recording, the marked-up page. It comes to roughly 1–3 cents per practice moment — a typical family costs about USD 0.35–1.00 a month to run.

Which means:

• One USD 3 coffee runs a typical family’s mentor for months.
• Every Premium family covers their own costs plus a dozen or more free families.

That’s the whole model. No ads, no selling data — ever. Just families helping families, with the maths in the open.

Buy the mentor a coffee — USD 3

The fine print, said plainly

• Donations are not tax-deductible — KindyWords is not a registered charity.
• Donations buy computing for free families — never features, never influence, never anything your child sees.
• No donation counters, no streaks, no guilt. One quiet link in the parent email, and this page.