Daily Listening

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A real teacher listens to your child read. Every day.

Here’s the problem with every reading app: nobody’s listening. Your child practices, taps the screen, moves on — and the little mistakes nobody catches get practiced deeper, day after day.

Daily Listening fixes that.

How it works

  1. Your child does their daily lesson and records themselves reading — it’s built right into the app.
  2. A real teacher listens to every recording — every day — and circles the exact words your child missed.
  3. The app takes it from there. Next time your child opens it, it warmly walks them through re-reading their circled words — and they must record the redo — before the day’s new lesson begins. Nothing stays broken.

Your teacher can also send short voice messages — encouragement, a quick re-teach of a tricky pattern, a “great job on yesterday’s story” — so your child knows a real person is in their corner.

Why it works

Think of piano lessons: daily practice is what builds the skill, but the teacher hearing the practice is what keeps it on track. Reading is the same. A missed word caught today is corrected in one day; a missed word caught never becomes a habit. And review the next day is actually better teaching than correction in the moment — spaced practice is how skills stick.

$95/month

Includes the full app subscription. That’s a teacher’s ear on your child’s reading, every single day, for less than the cost of one weekly tutoring session elsewhere.