Cronobu: History for Kids

Cronobu teaches history to children aged 6 to 12, and it starts with what no other app teaches: **what time is.** Before and after, the timeline, centuries and "BC", how we know what we know. Without that, a date is just a loose number.

Then comes the world — from caves to machines, in the order it happened. And then your own country, not as a separate app but on the same timeline: Cahokia and its earth pyramids stand where they belong, next to Rome and Egypt.

IT PLAYS WITHOUT READING

Every question is read out loud and answered by tapping a picture. A six-year-old who cannot read yet can play alone, today, with nobody reading the screen to them.

And the ones that need looking at, you can look at: the broken pot to be read, the aqueduct with water running along the top, the cave where people slept. Hand-drawn, one for what each question asks.

GETTING IT WRONG IS A GOOD MOMENT

No timer, no lives, no red. Tato, the armadillo who comes along, explains what actually happened and the game goes on. In history, correcting someone means telling them the part they were missing.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Three parts: time, the world and your country
• 20 topics, 38 lessons and 158 activities for the country you pick
• Twelve countries of the Americas, each with its own history
• More than 75 hand-drawn illustrations on your country's path, 240 across the whole app
• A different challenge every day, built from what your child finds hard
• Timelines, maps, sources, cause and effect: history is played, not read
• Grown-ups' Area: what they are learning, where they struggle, how long they played
• Several children, each with their own progress
• A daily goal in minutes — and the app celebrates stopping
• Study time: one reminder a day, at the hour a grown-up sets
• Spanish, English and Portuguese

HOW THE HISTORY IS TOLD

This is a history app for children, so the hard calls are made and written down:

• **Indigenous peoples are in the present tense and called by their names.** They are not a chapter that ended: there are people speaking those languages today.
• **The encounter between America and Europe is told from both sides**, and what hurt is said once, clearly, without a scene.
• **The story stops before contemporary politics.** No parties, no governments of the last fifty years. An eight-year-old does not need an app telling them what to think about that.

WHAT IT DOESN'T HAVE

• No ads
• Plays with no connection: it works in airplane mode and progress stays on the phone. The network is never used for the content
• No microphone, no camera, no location
• No notification you did not switch on. Study time starts off, the phone itself schedules it, and switching it off deletes it. Nothing ever arrives from us
• Nothing a child can buy. The subscription exists and a grown-up opens it, behind a gate a child does not cross. A price never appears on the child's screen.

WHAT'S FREE

The first three topics in full and the first lesson of your country's story, up to three lessons a day, plus the daily challenge for the first three days. The subscription opens everything else: the whole journey with no daily lesson limit, a challenge every day, the timeline with all its stops and a profile for each child (without it there is one). Enough to know whether this app is for you before paying anything.

WHO IT'S FOR

Families with children aged 6 to 12, and teachers looking for something a child plays instead of reads. Cronobu goes alongside school; it does not replace anyone.