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SpellTrainer is made by one person. Write, and you will get a reply from that person.

When something is wrong, it helps to know:

which iPad it is (Settings ▸ General ▸ About ▸ Model Name),
which iPadOS version,
what you did, and what happened instead.

Please do not send anything about the child — not their name, not their age, not their work. The app does not collect any of it and neither does this address.

What you need to run it

An iPad with iPadOS 17 or later: iPad 6th generation (2018) or later, iPad Air 3rd generation (2019) or later, iPad mini 5th generation (2019) or later, or any iPad Pro from 2017. There is no iPhone, Mac, Android or web version.
An Apple Pencil. The writing area ignores fingers deliberately.
No internet connection, except for speech recognition on older iPads.

The grown-ups area asks me a sum

That is the gate, and it is meant to be there. Tap Grown-ups, answer the multiplication on the screen, and the settings open. The question changes every time, so it cannot be memorised by a child who watches you do it once.

Everything that adds — a word, a list, a whole week of spellings — is outside the gate. Only settings, deletion and the backup are behind it.

Adding your own words

One at a time: Words ▸ choose a list ▸ +. English, what it means, and a picture if you want one. An example sentence is optional; if you leave it empty, the button that speaks it simply is not there.

A whole list at once: Words ▸ New word set. Give it a name, then paste one word per line:

cat = kedi = 🐱 = I have a cat.
dog, köpek
house; ev; 🏠

Any of =, ,, ;, :, a tab, or a tab will separate the parts. A hyphen is part of a word — time-out — and separates nothing. A fourth part is an example sentence with the word in it — leave the picture empty (cat = kedi = = I have a cat.) if you have none. A sentence without the word is shown back to you rather than kept. The app shows you what it read before anything is saved, including any line it could not use.

Your lists live in My Words, which is the fourth place on the home screen.

Finding a list

There are 176 of them. On the screen where your child picks one, and on your own Words screen, there is a search box that takes either the name of a list or a word inside one. A misspelling still finds it: typing elefant brings back the list that teaches elephant.

Backing up and restoring

Grown-ups ▸ Backup. One file, holding everything: the words, the answers, the handwriting, the medals and the whole history.

Restoring offers two choices. Merge only ever adds — where the file and the iPad both have a word, the one already on the iPad wins, and you are told which were skipped. Replace puts the iPad back exactly as the file describes it, and what was there before is gone.

Keep the file somewhere you would keep a photograph. There is no copy on any server, because there is no server.

Deleting

One word or one list: Words ▸ hold the tile ▸ delete. The history for that word is kept; the word is gone.
Clear the practice record: Grown-ups ▸ Clear the practice record. It takes every session and every attempt, and leaves the learned words, the tree and the medals standing. It asks first.
Start this iPad again for someone new: Grown-ups ▸ Start this iPad again for someone new. It takes those three as well, so the next child begins at nothing. It asks first, and the question names what goes.
Everything: delete the app. Everything it holds goes with it, immediately and completely.

Both of the middle two keep every word and every list.

Reminders

They are off until you switch them on, in Grown-ups ▸ Reminders. The iPad asks your permission at that moment rather than on the first launch. Daily, weekly, or neither.

A reminder is addressed to you rather than to the child, and carries no streak, no count of days missed and nothing to break. A day already practised on does not produce one.

Some things it does not do

These are decisions rather than gaps, so it is worth saying them here:

It does not mark handwriting for neatness. It reads the word and says whether the spelling is right.
It does not hold more than one child. One iPad, one child, one record.
Forty-three words that sound like another word are kept out of Listen and Say it. See and sea cannot be told apart by ear, so asking for one of them by ear has no right answer. They are still in Practise.
It never links a child out to anywhere, including to this page.

Privacy

The full policy is at /privacy, and it is the same text the app shows under Grown-ups ▸ Privacy.

The short version: nothing about your child leaves the iPad, except that on an iPad which cannot recognise speech on its own, iPadOS sends the audio from Say it to Apple. Handwriting never leaves, on any model.