Curio is not one fixed experience. It moves through four gentle tiers, and each one builds naturally on the one before it. You choose the one that fits your child today, from what you have seen them do rather than from how old they are, because children of the same age are in very different places and all of them are normal. There is nothing to finish and no schedule to keep. Here is what each step gives them.
Photographing your days, collecting tiny objects, and keeping a quiet record of your baby's world.
Every good journey starts with a little groundwork. Before any games begin, you and your baby build a photo library of the real things in their world, and you keep a simple log of feeds and nappies so the early days feel calmer and more organised. There is no screen time for your child yet. Everything you gather here quietly becomes the material that every later step plays with.
Once the library holds the faces, toys, and objects your child sees every day, they are ready to start naming them.
Looking at photos together, pointing at familiar faces, and naming the things in your shared space.
This is where first words take root. Your child hears a warm voice name a familiar object and taps the right photo to match. Because the pictures are their own cup, their own toy, and their own shoes, the words stick far faster than they would with generic stock images. Every correct tap earns stars and cheers, so learning feels like play.
When your child can point to what they already know, they are ready to explore the wider world those objects live in.
Getting up to find real objects in the room, matching colours, and hunting for things hidden in plain sight.
Learning steps off the screen and into the room. In Object Hunter, your child goes looking for the very things they photographed, connecting the spoken word, the picture, and the real object in their hands. A gentle Color Quiz adds a first sense of color. Curiosity and movement turn simple recognition into real, lasting understanding.
With a firm grasp of what things are and what they look like, your child is ready to start making things of their own.
Drawing, mixing sounds, building patterns, and telling simple stories out of pictures.
Now your child becomes the maker. The Drawing Pad hands them a free canvas with easy pen sizes, a friendly set of colors, and their own photographed things to stamp on as stickers. Patterns and first letter sounds arrive alongside it, and Sound Builder takes a familiar word apart one sound at a time. This kind of open, unhurried play builds fine motor control, sparks imagination, and gives your child a real sense of ownership over what they make.
You can change this at any time. Inside the app, open Settings and choose under “Where they are right now”. Move on when they are ready, or ease back whenever it helps — moving back is an ordinary thing to do, and nothing your child already plays disappears when you do it.