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A children's app that respects your family's screen time.

Stories, gentle learning, and conversation prompts for kids in Classes 1–5. No streaks, no notifications, no ads. Made by a parent in India, one bedtime at a time.

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our promise

Six things we will always do.

BrainyBees was built around principles, not metrics. Every design choice flows from this list. If you ever feel we've drifted, write to us — we'll listen.

Healthy education
Stories that nourish curiosity, not engagement loops engineered to keep your child glued.
Productive screen time
A 20-minute session that leaves your child curious — not staring, refreshing, or asking for more.
Fun stories
Banyans, monsoon, the peacock who couldn't sing. Stories rooted in the world your child already lives in.
A curriculum supplement
Beside school, not above it. Reading, numbers, wonder, creativity, emotion — five gentle tracks.
Affordable pricing
₹99–199 a month — that's the ceiling we're aiming for. Pricing isn't decided yet, and the beta is free. Whatever we settle on, we will find sustainability without making your wallet the product.
Non-invasive design
No notifications to your child. No tracking. The app is a quiet room, not a noisy hallway.
our line in the sand

Seven things we refuse to build.

Refusing is a decision we make every release, not a promise we made once. If we ever change our minds, we'll say so out loud before it ships — and you'll have every right to walk away.

streaks
notifications to your child
autoplay
leaderboards
ads
in-app purchases for kids
third-party trackers
the characters

Meet Tara, Madhu and the story cast.

Two friends live in the app. They breathe, blink, turn to look at things, and never ask your child to come back. The stories have a cast of their own — a fox, a cat and a snail so far, with more on the way.

Tara, a brown owl with round glasses and a cream front, standing and looking at you.
Tara
The owl who narrates every story — warm, patient, and curious about what your child thinks.
Madhu, a round yellow-and-brown bee with glasses, holding an open green book.
Madhu
The bee who keeps her company — quick, playful, and always somewhere on the page.
Fiona, an orange fox in a green waistcoat, waving.
Fiona
The fox in the waistcoat — first of the story cast. She lives inside a tale rather than the whole app.
A ginger cat in a white lab coat, round glasses on and safety goggles pushed up, waving.
The cat
The one in the lab coat — goggles up, glasses on, and always in the middle of an experiment.
A small tan snail with a brown spiral shell, one eye-stalk bent in a wave.
The snail
Unhurried and unbothered — usually the one who notices what everyone else rushed past.
Rupa and Anand, the founders, sitting together on driftwood at the beach.

We're building this for our own son.

A few years ago we watched our son slip into the YouTube autoplay loop. Eyes glazed, the same dopamine pattern we'd seen in adults. He was three. We closed the laptop, put away our phones, and started thinking.

BrainyBees is what we wish had existed back then. An app that earns its 20 minutes a day with stories worth hearing — and then steps aside. No streaks calling him back. No notifications interrupting dinner. No engineered habit forming.

It is built one weekend at a time, in a small flat in India, by two parents who believe thoughtful tech for children is possible. If that resonates, we'd love your child to be one of the first to try it.

— Rupa and Anand, founders
Our son crouched at the water's edge, playing with a toy truck in the wet sand.

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Closed beta opens later this year. We'll send a quiet email when your invite is ready.

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