BukaBoom: Learn to Read Aloud

BukaBoom is a learn-to-read app where your child reads fairy tales aloud — and the app listens. Every word read correctly lights up, and the picture on the page opens piece by piece.

No cartoons to watch. Your child does the reading.

HOW IT WORKS
• Pick a story: Cinderella, Puss in Boots, Thumbelina and 50+ more classic fairy tales.
• Tap the microphone and read the short phrase on the screen aloud.
• Speech recognition follows along: the words your child reads light up, karaoke-style.
• Each phrase opens another piece of the illustration. Finish the page and the picture is complete.

HELP WHEN A WORD IS HARD
• Tap any word to hear it.
• A pointing hand shows the word the reader is stuck on.
• Choose how reading is checked: letter by letter for beginners, or word by word — gentle, normal or strict.
• Blots: ink over a word that just won't read and keep going.

REWARDS EARNED BY READING
• A star for every story finished.
• A bookshelf that fills with the books your child has read.
• Stars unlock themes, live backgrounds, avatars and frames. Stars can't be bought — only earned by reading.

WHO IT IS FOR
Beginning readers, from preschool and kindergarten to the first grades. Use it for daily reading practice, reading fluency, bedtime stories read together, and for children learning to read English as a second language.

8 LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Korean, Chinese and Russian. Switch at any time — made for bilingual families.

SAFE FOR KIDS
• No ads.
• Speech is recognized on the device. Your child's voice is not sent to our servers.
• Purchases are protected by parental controls.

Some stories are open from the start; the rest are available with a subscription through Google Play.

BukaBoom — fairy tales your child reads on their own.