Junior & senior infants · ages 4–6
Phonics, maths and first Irish, built on the Irish curriculum and taught in the same letter order as school.
Just a nickname
Irish included
The first six sounds in most Irish classrooms, in a real recorded voice.
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Turn your sound on
All 42 letter sounds, in seven sets.
Six short games in every set: find the letter you hear, blend sounds into words, build words, sound puzzles and rhymes, sort pictures and match capitals. Letter tracing in the Writing Shed.
Primary Language Curriculum
Counting, shapes, patterns and coins.
Seven games of first maths: count and tap the number, add two groups, finish a pattern, find the shape, pay with coins in a pretend shop, sort things into groups, and line them up smallest to biggest.
Primary Mathematics Curriculum
Colours, animals and counting as Gaeilge.
Hear a word and find its picture, then hear it and say it back. Every word is spoken aloud, so no Irish is needed at home. Saying it back needs no microphone and is never scored.
Gaeilge · spoken first
In the order your child's teacher uses.
Each set adds a few new sounds, and every word in it uses only sounds already taught, so your child can sound out every one. Six stars in a set and they're ready for the next.
You pick your school's order. Set 1 is free either way.
One button plays a short run of games from the set your child has reached, in the same order every day: hear the sounds, read words, build words, then a puzzle. It leans on whatever they found tricky, and forgets it when the lesson ends.
They play in teaching orderNo timers, no streaks, no “play again” push, and a Finish button is always there.
Nothing is sold to children.
No pop-ups and nothing to buy in the games. Prices sit behind a grown-ups-only question.
No real names, no birthdays.
A nickname and their stars are all the app keeps about a child.
Every letter sound, not a robot.
All 42 letter sounds are recorded by a real person.
Only the sounds they've learnt.
Every word in a set uses only the sounds taught so far, so your child can sound it out.
One switch turns off stars and praise.
For children who like things quiet. They still move through the sets in order.
A whiteboard view that stores nothing about any pupil.
A class board shows each activity and what it teaches. No pupil names, no register.
Up to 4 children, on every phone and tablet. Even offline.
Open it in the browser and add it to your home screen. No app store needed.
From the app, no questions asked.
You keep access until your paid time runs out.
Made in Ireland by a mam of twins who couldn't find an app that matched the Irish curriculum. So she made one.
Little Sprigs follows Stage 1 of the Primary Language Curriculum and the Primary Mathematics Curriculum, the stage taught in junior and senior infants.
Monika Powell, founder
One subscription, up to 4 children. Cancel any time.
€59.99 €79.99
first year, then €79.99
All 7 sets, Story Corner, and new content as it arrives.
Get the founding priceThe first 50 families pay €59.99 for their whole first year. Join the list to hear first when it opens.
Junior and senior infants, around ages 4 to 6. It starts from the very first sounds, so your child doesn't need to read to begin.
Set 1 with all six of its games, plus Number Nook and Gaelic Grove, for good, with no card and no account. All seven sets and Story Corner come with the subscription.
Any phone, tablet or computer with a web browser, including Amazon Fire kids' tablets. Add it to your home screen and it works like an app, even offline.
Not once they've started. Everything is spoken aloud, so a child who can't read yet can play on their own.
You choose 3, 4 or 6 short games in For Grown-ups. Today's Lesson plays them and then stops. There's no timer and nothing nudging them to keep going.
No. Gaelic Grove says every word aloud and shows its picture, so it works in homes where no one speaks Irish.
Only the nickname you choose and the stars they earn: no real name, no birthday, no photos, no recordings. The privacy page has the details.
In For Grown-ups, pick s a t i p n or a m s t p f i n. Every game follows your choice.
