Practice that never punishes
Bravo teaches column addition through long division the way it is done on paper. Getting a digit wrong clears it and lets the child try again, as often as they like, with no score to lose.
Launching soonBravo is a practice app for the written arithmetic a child is actually taught at school: digits in columns, carries above, partial products in rows, long division under the bracket. The child performs the procedure rather than picking an answer, and grading happens at the granularity of one digit in one cell. A long division has twenty of them, and none of them can cost anything.
What it does
The written procedure, not a multiple choice
Digits in columns, carries above, partial products in rows, long division under the bracket. The child does the actual work, cell by cell, the way their school does it.
Nothing ever drops
A wrong digit goes warm amber, clears, and the child tries again while the help gets more specific. There is no score type in the app to deduct from, and no red anywhere a child can reach.
A ladder, not a year group
About fifty levels, from adding within ten to long division by a two-digit number. A short placement climb decides where a child starts. Some five year olds multiply; some ten year olds count on their fingers.
The notation your school uses
Subtraction and division are drawn differently in the US and in Europe. Bravo asks which one the child is taught, because the other one looks broken to a six year old.
A parent area with counts, not grades
What has been done and where the child is on the ladder. No accuracy percentage, no grade, no star rating anywhere in the app, including here.
Nothing collected from the child
The only personal detail Bravo holds is the parent's email address. No advertising, no third-party analytics, no tracker in the app at all — there is no such library in it to misuse.
How it works
A parent sets it up once. After that a session is a few minutes, and the child can start it alone.
A grown-up sets it up
The parent creates the account and adds a child profile. The account holder is always the adult, and the only contact detail Bravo ever asks for is their email address.
A short placement climb
A few problems decide where on the ladder the child starts. It is a position, never a year group, and it moves as they do.
Write it out, cell by cell
The child types one digit at a time into the same layout their exercise book uses. A wrong digit turns warm amber, clears itself, keeps the cursor where it was, and the hint gets more specific each time.
Climb, without a ceiling to fall from
Progress is a count of what has been finished, so it only ever goes up. There is no score, no accuracy percentage and no star rating in the app, including in the parent area.
The most repeated complaint about the big practice apps is not that they are too hard. It is that a child watches a number they earned go down, and stops. Bravo removes the mechanism rather than softening it: there is no score type in the app to deduct from, no counter that decrements, and the error colour is unreachable from anything a child can see. That is enforced in the structure of the code, not by a rule someone has to remember at review time.
Where Bravo is today
Launching soonBravo is built for iPhone and is not in the App Store yet. This page and the legal documents linked below go up first, because the store requires those URLs to resolve before it will review the app — and for a child-directed app the privacy policy is the document a reviewer reads closely. There are no user numbers or reviews to show, and we would rather say that than invent them.
Questions
What age is it for?
What do you collect about my child?
Is there advertising or tracking?
Can my child buy anything by accident?
Is any of it free?
Trying again should cost nothing
Bravo is coming soon to iPhone. Until then, the privacy policy below is the honest version of what it holds.