Built for one homeschool mom. Then everyone else.

The story

My wife is a homeschool mom. One night she said something offhand: "It'd be really neat if we had an app that did Accelerated Reader — you know, the thing they used to have in school where the kid reads a book, takes a little quiz on it, and gets points. We don't really have that as homeschoolers."

The next weekend I started building it. The idea was simple: search a book, get a real 10-question comprehension quiz on that specific book, pass it, earn something. I wanted the reward to be something a kid would actually care about, so I added the hatchlings — 10 collectible pets you unlock as you rack up points.

I shared it with a few friends who homeschool. Then their friends. Then it turned into a real thing on the App Store, and this website exists because enough parents kept asking "wait, what is this?" that we needed a place to point them.

What I care about

• Real comprehension, not busywork. The quizzes are generated from the actual book, not a generic reading-comp template. If a kid can pass the quiz, they read the book.
• No kid accounts.Parents sign in and manage everything. Children never create logins, never enter emails, never get marketed to. It's the way I'd want it if it were my kid using someone else's app.
• The reward has to be earnable. The 10th hatchling should be a genuine trophy — hard enough that kids brag about it, easy enough that a committed reader can get there.
• Accelerated Reader at home. The mechanism schools have been using since the 1980s — 10 questions on the book, pass to earn credit — but for any family, any book, no school license required.

Who this is for

Any parent who wants proof their kid actually read the book — whether that's families whose school doesn't run AR, kids reading outside the school AR list, summer reading, homeschool families, or any child roughly ages 6–12 who reads. It started as a favor for one homeschool mom, but the same problem exists everywhere: kids finish books, parents have no idea whether they read them. That's what this app fixes.

Get in touch

Feedback, bug reports, feature requests, or just a nice email — all land in the same inbox and I read them all.