How tap and hear works
Pick a set with the round buttons at the top — animals, birds, vehicles, fruits or vegetables — then hand it over. Each tap bounces the picture and says its name in your child's language; animals and birds also make their sound. There is no order, so a toddler who taps the same cow ten times is doing it right. When every picture on the board has been heard at least once, the board changes.
Why a separate toddler mode
A one-year-old cannot play a game that has a right answer. They cannot read a button, they tap with the whole hand, and they tap the same thing twenty times because hearing it again is the point. So this mode takes away everything a toddler cannot use: there are no questions, no wrong answers, no scores, no words on screen and no small buttons. Every tap does something good.
Lock the screen before you hand it over
Press the 🔒 button in the corner. The page goes full screen and the site's menus disappear, so a stray slap cannot take your child somewhere else. To unlock, press and hold the 🔓 button for two seconds — long enough that a toddler will not manage it by accident. (On some iPhones full screen is not allowed; the lock still hides the menus.)
With you, not instead of you
For children under two, the guidance from the WHO and the American Academy of Pediatrics is clear: very little screen time, and when there is some, a grown-up sits with them and talks about what they see. That is how this page is meant to be used. When the phone says "cow", you say "cow! moo! Like the cow we saw on the way to Nani's." The screen names the picture; you connect it to the world. Five minutes is a good session. Then put it away and find the real thing.
What your toddler is learning
Between twelve and thirty months children go from a handful of words to several hundred, and nearly all of those first words are names of things they can see: animals, food, vehicles, people. Hearing a word while looking at a clear picture of it — many times, in their own language — is exactly how that happens. Animal sounds are often a toddler's very first "words", which is why the animal and bird boards say the sound as well as the name.
In your language
Choose your language with the button at the top of the page before you lock the screen. Every picture is named in 34 languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Arabic, Spanish and Japanese — so a toddler hears the words the family actually uses at home.
Now do it for real
When the screen goes off, do something with your hands. Try ☁️ Water that disappears — an easy science experiment for ages 4-6, with every step read aloud in your language. You will need two saucers of water, a sunny spot and a shady spot; nothing that needs a trip to a shop.
There are 56 more on the things to do at home page, and free printable worksheets if you would rather have something on paper. Ten minutes on a screen and twenty minutes off it is a good shape for a day at this age.