A short, honest page. If you are wondering who made this and whether to let your child use it, this is everything I would tell you if we were talking.
I am a parent in Ireland. I built this for my own children, who use it, and I decided afterwards to let other families use it too. It teaches the Irish curriculum for maths, from Second Class up to Third Year, and it teaches coding from the very beginning through to building real things. It holds no email addresses, shows no adverts, and has no trackers of any kind in it.
My name is [YOUR NAME] and I live in [YOUR TOWN]. I am not a company. There is no team behind this and no investor. I wrote every line of it myself, mostly on my phone, in the evenings.
If you want to ask me something before you let your child near it, please do — [CONTACT EMAIL OR PHONE]. You will be talking to me, not to support staff.
I wanted my children to be strong at two things: mathematics and coding. Not to pass one exam and forget it, but to actually understand it.
Maths because school will examine them on it and a weak start follows a child for years. Coding for a different reason entirely — nobody is going to sit my children down and teach it to them, there is no exam forcing it, and yet it is the skill most likely to decide what work they can do at twenty-five. A child who can build something themselves is in a different position from a child who can only use what other people have built.
The problem I kept hitting is one I suspect you know. A child gets stuck on their homework at eight in the evening. You want to help. Either you do not remember how to do it yourself, or the way you were taught it is not the way they are being taught it now, or you have simply run out of hours in the day. The child is left staring at a page, and the gap quietly widens.
So I built the thing I wanted to exist: something that would sit down with my child and explain it properly, step by step, the way I would if I had the time and the maths. Not a page of answers. The working, in order, until it makes sense.
Eight full courses of Irish curriculum maths — Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Class at primary, then First, Second and Third Year at secondary. Thousands of questions with worked examples and hints, an AI teacher your child can ask when they are stuck, and a scratch pad on every question so they can work it out rather than guess.
Alongside that, a full year of coding: 52 weeks in four stages, one week at a time. It starts in Scratch, where a child who has never programmed can make something move on the first evening, then moves into Python, then the web, then the tools a real developer actually uses. It ends with them having built and shipped a project of their own. There are practice questions and diagrams along the way, and a parent screen of its own so you can see how far they have got.
Everything works on any phone or tablet through the browser. There is nothing to install. It keeps working when the signal drops.
Each child has their own name and PIN, so brothers and sisters do not see each other's work. A parent has a separate screen showing how long they studied, what they got right, and which topics they are struggling with.
This is the part I would want to read first if I were you, so I will be exact about it.
What I do keep is your child's first name, their age, and a record of what they studied — because that is what makes the parent screen work. The full detail, in plain English, is in the privacy policy.
The first chapter of every course is free and always will be, with no sign-up. A new family then gets a free trial to see whether their child will actually use it, which is the only thing worth knowing.
After that it is €10 a month, or €100 for the year for the whole family — every child, every course, not one price per child. You can cancel whenever you like.
I would rather tell you this now than have you find out later.
It will not replace a teacher, and it will not replace you. No app does. A child whose parent never asks how it went will get less out of this than a child whose parent asks one question at dinner — and one question is genuinely enough. That is why the parent screen tells you which topic to ask about, in one sentence, rather than burying it in charts.
One practical thing about the coding, so it does not surprise you: the early weeks send your child to the Scratch website to actually build things, because that is where Scratch lives. They come back to Alder for the next week's teaching. If you see them leave the app during coding, that is why.
It is also not finished, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. I add to it constantly. If your child hits something wrong or confusing, tell me and I will fix it, usually within a day or two.
Open the free chapters and give the phone to your child for twenty minutes. You will learn more from watching their face than from anything I could write on this page.
Alder — [YOUR NAME], [YOUR TOWN], Ireland.