Every kid deserves a personal writing mentor — here's the honest maths that keeps the free plan free.
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.
The coffee button is coming — we're setting up the donation account. Until then, the best support is telling another family about KindyWords.
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.