OllyOlly: a private clubhouse for the kids you love

Why we call it OllyOlly

It was the call that meant it's safe to come out.

Think back to a summer evening when the whole street played hide and seek. Someone counted to a hundred against the big tree in the front yard. Everyone else scattered: behind hedges, under porch steps, flat in the tall grass with their hearts pounding. Bikes lay where they were dropped, and somebody's mom was calling them in for supper.

And when the game was over, one call rang out down the block:

"Olly olly oxen free!"

It meant nobody was "it" anymore. No tricks and no tagging. Whoever was still hiding could come out and come over, because it was safe.

That's the feeling we built OllyOlly around. Kids playing, making things and laughing with the people who love them: a cousin two states away, a grandma across the country, a godparent who's always up for one more game. The grown-ups set the edges, like the end of the block used to be, and inside them kids are free to just be kids.

What's inside

One clubhouse, sized for each child.

Kids see the same five tabs everywhere: Home, Play, Make, Read and People. Everything looks and feels a little different for a 4 year old, a 10 year old and a 16 year old, from big picture tiles for little ones to calm lists for teens.

PlayAbout 110 games and puzzles, with the computer, a friend or family. MakeStories, drawings, coloring, music and code. ReadMore than 500 books in English and Spanish, many read aloud. TalkMessages with the circle, and an "I need help" button. SafetyCircles, switches and checks, run on our own server.

See everything in OllyOlly: every game, activity, book shelf and feature

Play

Game night, even when family lives far away.

About 110 board, card and dice games, puzzles, word and party games, all on our own server, with no public lobbies and no strangers. More than 40 of them can be played three ways.

Play the computerEasy, medium or hard. Works with no internet at all.

Play a friend herePass and play on one phone or tablet, side by side.

Play your circleGrandma on her phone, you on yours. Only people in your circle can play you.

Board games

28 games

Chess (with a teacher), Checkers, Four in a Row, Tic-Tac-Toe, Dots and Boxes, Reversi, Go, Mancala, Chinese Checkers, Nine Men's Morris, Backgammon, Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Race Home, Fleet Finder, Neighborhood Tycoon (play money only), Mystery Mansion, Hidden Ranks, Train Routes, Island Settlers, Map Conquest, Mini Golf (four themed courses), 3D Mini Golf (putt a 3D course with your circle), Pool (8-ball), Shuffleboard (slide pucks down the lane), Carrom (flick the striker), Bowling (ten-pin) and Sweet Path (a candy path for little ones).

Card games

17 games

Color Clash, Go Fish, Old Bear, War, Crazy Eights, Rummy, Cribbage, Memory Match, Solitaire, Card Golf, Chain Five, Hearts and Spades, Spoons (a fast race to grab a spoon), Kings in the Corner (build down the corners) and One Mind (play your numbers together, no talking), where computer players fill the empty chairs. For teens 13 and up, only when a parent turns them on: Poker and Twenty-One, with play chips only (nothing to buy) and a teacher that explains each decision.

For little ones

Ages 3 to 7

Shape and Color Sorter, Animal Sounds Match, Balloon Pop Counting, Follow the Lights, Peekaboo and Phonics Pop (letter sounds, first words and sentences, in English or Spanish). Picture first, no timers and no losing screens.

Word and party games

18 games

Daily Five (the whole family gets the same word each day), Four Groups, Letter Categories, Word Guess, Word Tiles, Word Search, Spell It!, Silly Stories, Code Breaker, Word of the Day, Draw & Guess, Family Trivia, Family Bingo Night, Who Am I? (Family Avatars), Draw and Pass Telephone, 20 Questions, Word Spies and Scavenger Hunt at Home (outside things always with a grown-up).

Puzzles

22 puzzles

Jigsaw Puzzles (our pictures or a family photo, 12 to 500 pieces), Paint Parade (send little painters round a belt to clear a pixel picture, with a daily family picture), Block Drop and Tile Pairs (each with a daily family game), Tangrams, Picture Logic, Sort Puzzles, Sudoku, Mine Finder, Lights Out (turn every light off), Peg Solitaire (clear the triangle or the English cross to one peg), Color Connect (join the matching dots and fill the board), Copycat (watch the pads light up, then tap them back), Tile Temple (match free tiles to clear the stack), Bubble Pop (aim and shoot to pop groups of a color), Number Merge, Falling Blocks, Box Pusher, Sliding Puzzles, Coding Puzzles, Maze Muncher (munch the dots, dodge friendly critters), and Escape Rooms: six puzzle rooms to solve alone or with the circle. Calm speeds, undo and hints.

Dice and dominoes

4 games

Hot Dice, Five Dice, Bluff Dice and Dominoes: roll, match, bluff and push your luck.

Learning games

13 games

Math Facts Race, Typing Race, Geography and Flags, and Learn Spanish (picture words, stories and a daily family word, said by a Spanish voice). New: Number Path, Tick Tock Town, Coin Shop, Block Builders, Fraction Pizzeria, Three Jars, Budget Month, Logic Grid Mysteries and Wagon Trail (cross the country on a budget), where the game itself is the lesson and mistakes are safe. Practice with no clock, and races only against your own best.

Business and money

3 games

Main Street Mogul (grow a town of businesses from one lemonade stand), Corner Cafe (cook, serve and set your prices) and, for teens and grown-ups, Life Plan (a made-up life from a first job to retiring). Play money only, with a short lesson after each milestone.

Every day there's a new family Sudoku, Word Search and Math Facts challenge, the same for everyone, with a "Done today" list of who in your circle finished it.

See all 111 games, with ages and ways to play

Ways to play: Computer play the computer, A friend here pass and play on one device, Your circle someone in your circle, on their own device.

Board games 28 games

Chess Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Checkers Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Four in a Row Ages 4 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Tic-Tac-Toe Ages 3 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Dots and Boxes Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Reversi Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Go Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Mancala Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Chinese Checkers Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Nine Men's Morris Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Backgammon Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Snakes and Ladders Ages 4 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Ludo Ages 5 to 12 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Race Home Ages 5 to 12 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Fleet Finder Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Neighborhood Tycoon Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Mystery Mansion Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Hidden Ranks Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Train Routes Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Island Settlers Ages 10 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Map Conquest Ages 10 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Mini Golf Ages 4 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
3D Mini Golf Ages 6 and up Ways to play: Your circle
Pool Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Shuffleboard Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Carrom Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Bowling Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Sweet Path Ages 3 to 6 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle

Card games 17 games

Color Clash Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Go Fish Ages 5 to 10 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Old Bear Ages 4 to 10 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
War Ages 4 to 10 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Crazy Eights Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Card Golf Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Chain Five Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Rummy Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Cribbage Ages 10 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Memory Match Ages 3 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Solitaire Card Games Ages 7 and up Ways to play: On your own
Hearts and Spades Ages 10 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Poker Ages 13 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Twenty-One Ages 13 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Spoons Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerYour circle
Kings in the Corner Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
One Mind Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerYour circle

For little ones 6 games

Shape and Color Sorter Ages 3 to 6 Ways to play: On your own
Animal Sounds Match Ages 3 to 6 Ways to play: On your own
Balloon Pop Counting Ages 3 to 6 Ways to play: On your own
Follow the Lights Ages 3 to 7 Ways to play: A friend here
Peekaboo Ages 3 to 5 Ways to play: On your own
Phonics Pop Ages 3 to 7 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle

Word and party games 18 games

Daily Five Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Four Groups Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Letter Categories Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Word Guess Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Word Tiles Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Word Search Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Spell It! Ages 5 and up Ways to play: A friend hereYour circle
Silly Stories Ages 6 and up Ways to play: A friend hereYour circle
Code Breaker Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Word of the Day Ages 7 and up Ways to play: On your own
Draw & Guess Ages 4 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Family Trivia Ages 3 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Family Bingo Night Ages 4 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Who Am I? (Family Avatars) Ages 5 to 12 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Draw and Pass Telephone Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
20 Questions Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Word Spies Ages 10 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Scavenger Hunt at Home Ages 5 to 12 Ways to play: A friend hereYour circle

Puzzles 22 games

Jigsaw Puzzles Ages 3 and up Ways to play: Your circle
Paint Parade Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Block Drop Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Tile Pairs Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Tangrams Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Picture Logic Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Sort Puzzles Ages 4 and up Ways to play: On your own
Sudoku Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Mine Finder Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Number Merge Ages 7 and up Ways to play: On your own
Falling Blocks Ages 6 and up Ways to play: On your own
Lights Out Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Peg Solitaire Ages 6 and up Ways to play: On your own
Color Connect Ages 6 and up Ways to play: On your own
Copycat Ages 4 and up Ways to play: On your own
Tile Temple Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Bubble Pop Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Box Pusher Ages 7 and up Ways to play: On your own
Sliding Puzzles Ages 5 and up Ways to play: On your own
Coding Puzzles Ages 5 to 12 Ways to play: On your own
Escape Rooms Ages 6 and up Ways to play: A friend hereYour circle
Maze Muncher Ages 5 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle

Dice and dominoes 4 games

Hot Dice Ages 8 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Five Dice Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Bluff Dice Ages 10 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Dominoes Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle

Learning games 13 games

Math Facts Race Ages 5 to 13 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Typing Race Ages 7 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Geography and Flags Ages 6 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Learn Spanish Ages 4 and up Ways to play: On your own
Number Path Ages 3 to 6 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Tick Tock Town Ages 5 to 9 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Coin Shop Ages 5 to 9 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Block Builders Ages 6 to 9 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Fraction Pizzeria Ages 7 to 11 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Three Jars Ages 7 to 12 Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Budget Month Ages 13 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Logic Grid Mysteries Ages 9 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle
Wagon Trail Ages 7 and up Ways to play: A friend hereYour circle

Business and money 3 games

Main Street Mogul Ages 8 and up Ways to play: Your circle
Corner Cafe Ages 8 and up Ways to play: A friend hereYour circle
Life Plan Ages 13 and up Ways to play: ComputerA friend hereYour circle

See everything in OllyOlly: every game, activity, shelf and feature

House rules, like at the kitchen table.

Every family plays a little differently. Before a game, pick the rules you grew up with. In circle games the server checks every move and rolls every die, so nobody can cheat.

Flying kings Checkers
Giveaway: lose to win Checkers
Bigger boards Checkers, Dots and Boxes
Gentle or wild snakes Snakes and Ladders
Keep drawing until you can play Color Clash
Roll a 6 to leave the yard Ludo
Doubling cube off Backgammon

Chess comes with a friendly teacher that looks at each move and shows better ideas, plus an optional "I'm stuck" hint.

Make

Stories written together. Drawings for the fridge.

Places to make things with the people who love them, and to keep what they made.

Our Story

A book written one page at a time, like a game of catch.

The Moon Who Lost Her Glow Suggested title

An owl The night sky A lost glow

Grandma

One night the moon woke up and found that her glow was gone. The owls couldn't see, and the fireflies were too small to light the whole sky.

Maya, age 7

So the fireflys had a meeting and they decided to fly all the way up to the moon in a big line!

Your turn, Maya! Speak it

Story cards for a character, a place and a problem. Spin them for a surprise.
Suggest a title when you're stuck on a name.
Take turns with a note when it's yours. Add a drawing to any page.
Speak it instead of typing. Little ones can start with pictures.
The End turns it into a book with a cover and read-aloud. Print it as a keepsake, even as a folded booklet to staple.

Notebook

Tap "Draw something" and a blank page opens right away.

Pens, markers, crayons, pencils, a highlighter and glitter in any color, plus shapes, a paint bucket, typing, stickers and different papers.
Share a page with someone in the circle. They send back a heart or a note.
The fridge wall shows favorite pages to the whole circle.
Never lost: pages save on the device first, even with no internet.
Private diary for teens 13 and up, when guardians allow it. Safety checks still run.

And more on the Make tab

Coloring Book, for every age

66 big pictures for little ones, 65 scenes for kids and 68 detailed pages for teens and grown-ups. Tap to fill, draw on top, zoom in, print, or keep it in the notebook.

Letter and Number Tracing

A to Z, a to z and 0 to 9 with a crayon, a start dot and arrows. Hazel says each one: "A, apple."

Whiteboard together

Draw live with up to three people from the circle, each on their own device, or everyone on one screen. It goes into a notebook only if everyone says OK; guardians can look at a copy for 90 days.

Pixel Art Together

Pictures square by square with fill, mirror and undo, color by number for little ones, or one grid shared with the circle, with the Whiteboard's rules.

Make Music

A rainbow keyboard and animal sounds for little ones, a beat grid for kids, keys, scales and effects for teens. Share a song and the circle can play it or remix it.

Coding Puzzles

Help Glow the firefly get home with code blocks: 56 levels from first steps to loops, mazes and your own moves, plus picture arrows for little ones.

Make & Code

Make animations and games with blocks, then see the JavaScript they make. Teens can write it themselves. Projects run in a sealed box with no internet.

Family Recipe Book

The family's cookbook: who a recipe came from, the steps, a photo, and a big "Cook together" view. A child's photo waits for a guardian's OK.

Photo Journal

For ages 12 and up: photos with a date and a caption, private to start. Sharing one waits for a guardian's OK, and hidden details like location are removed.

Study Room

A focus timer, a to-do list, notes and quiet rain or fan sounds. Study together: up to four people in a circle see who is focusing.

Family Voices

Grandma reads a bedtime story from the library, page by page, or records a good night or a birthday wish. The child plays it any time, even with no internet. Every recording stays on our own server and is checked like a message.

Calm Corner

Breathe with the bubble ("smell the cake, blow out the candles"), find the face for how you feel and how big the feeling is, and share it with a grown-up only if you want to.

Sleep Sounds

Rain, ocean waves, soft noise and gentle lullabies made on the device, with a timer that fades out, plus slow sleep stories read aloud.

See all 14 things to make, with ages

Notebook Ages 3 and up Draw and write, then share pages with your circle.
Our Story Ages 3 and up Ways to play: Your circleWrite a story together, taking turns, until it becomes a book.
Coloring Book Ages 3 and up A coloring book for every age: 66 pictures for little ones, 65 for kids and 68 detailed ones for teens and grown-ups. Tap to fill, draw on top, zoom in, print, or keep them in your notebook.
Whiteboard Ages 3 and up Ways to play: A friend hereYour circleDraw together in real time with up to three people in your circle, or with someone next to you.
Letter and Number Tracing Ages 3 to 6 Trace big and small letters and the numbers 0 to 9 with a crayon, following the arrows.
Make Music Ages 3 and up Play a big keyboard and animal sounds, make beats and songs, and share them with your circle.
Family Recipe Book Ages 6 and up Your family's cookbook: recipes with who they came from, photos, and a big-step cook-together view.
Photo Journal Ages 12 and up A private journal of your photos with captions and dates. Share one with your circle when a grown-up says OK.
Study Room Ages 11 and up Ways to play: Your circleA calm place to focus: a timer, a to-do list, notes, rain or fan sounds, and studying together with your circle.
Make & Code Ages 8 and up Make animations and games with code blocks, then share them with your circle. Teens can switch to JavaScript.
Pixel Art Together Ages 4 and up Ways to play: Your circleMake pixel pictures square by square with fill, mirror and undo, color by number, or draw on one grid with someone in your circle. Save them in your notebook.
Family Voices Ages 3 and up Hear the grown-ups in your family read you a book, say good night or wish you a happy birthday, in their own voices. Save them for a trip.
Calm Corner Ages 3 and up Breathe with the bubble, find the face for how you feel and how big the feeling is, and share it with your grown-up if you want to.
Sleep Sounds Ages 3 and up Rain, ocean waves, soft noise and gentle lullabies with a timer that fades out, plus slow sleep stories read by Hazel.

See everything in OllyOlly: every game, activity, shelf and feature

Read

A library that reads to you, in Hazel's voice.

More than 500 books in English and Spanish, from Beatrix Potter and the Oz books to Jane Austen, every one age-rated. Hazel, the OllyOlly voice, reads the English books aloud from our own server, Dora reads the Spanish ones, and each sentence lights up as they go.

Picture books for little onesClassic picture books with their original pictures, and about 140 modern picture books from publishers who share their books freely. Tap a big cover and it opens.
Illustrated classicsAlice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Just So Stories and more, with their original illustrations.
A teen shelfJane Eyre, Frankenstein, The Time Machine and more, in a calmer list made for older readers.
Tap a word to learn itPress on a word in an English book and a small card shows what it means, in words that fit their age, and Hazel says it.
Reading streaks and a weekly goalDays read in a row, books finished, and a weekly reading goal a guardian can set.
Libros en español79 books in Spanish on their own shelf, for bilingual families, read aloud by Dora in Latin American Spanish. Tap-a-word is English only for now.
Turn pages or scrollBigger text, easier spacing, and day, sepia or night pages. Their place is saved on every device, and a book they opened keeps working with no signal.

Library

Keep reading

Heidi

The Secret Garden

Peter Rabbit

She continued her search and presently came to the fir trees behind the hut. A strong breeze was blowing through them, and there was a rushing and roaring in their topmost branches, Heidi stood still and listened.

Hazel is readingScrollPages

Home Play Make Read People

See the 7 shelves of 519 books, with a few covers

Hazel reads the English books aloud and Dora reads the Spanish ones, from our own server.

Picture books 136 books

Libros en español 79 books

Ages 3 to 5 32 books

Ages 6 to 8 63 books

Ages 9 to 10 30 books

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

Ages 11 to 13 54 books

Little Women

Anne of Avonlea

The Call of the Wild

Ages 14 to 17 125 books

Jane Eyre

Frankenstein

The Time Machine

See everything in OllyOlly: every game, activity, shelf and feature

Talk

Messages with the people who matter.

One-to-one chats and small groups, only with people in a child's circle. Little ones get big buttons, stickers and picture phrases.

"I need help" is always thereOne tap tells a child's guardians right away. The other person is never told.
Photos and drawings, with guardian approvalPictures only work with people a guardian allows, and a guardian can choose to OK each one first. Guardians see every picture sent and received.
Talk to typeKids can speak instead of typing. The voice goes only to our own server, becomes words, and is deleted right away.
No links to the outsideWeb links are removed from any chat with a child in it, and every message passes the safety check first.
Told plainlyKids see that their grown-ups can read their messages. Guardians read everything for kids under 13, and for teens only what the safety check flags, unless the guardian chooses more.

Safety

Every child has a circle. Only people inside it can reach them.

There's no search box, no friend requests and no public profile. A child's guardians choose who is in their circle, and the server checks the circle on every message, move and page.

Your family's space is yours alone. Having an OllyOlly account never lets anyone see or reach your kids. The only way someone joins your family's space is if you invite them, and you can take that back at any time.

Switches for each personChoose what each person can do with a child: messages, group chats, games, stories, notebook pages, pictures, seeing who's online and which times of day. Start from a preset: trusted grown-up, sibling, cousin or friend.
A safety check on everything writtenMessages, story pages, notebook pages, game chat, names, words on the whiteboard, song names and code projects are checked in 16 areas, from cuss words and bullying to grooming, meeting in person and self-harm. From everyone, grown-ups included.
Floors nobody can lowerGrooming warning signs, meeting in person, self-harm and abuse always reach a guardian. No setting can switch them off, not even ours.
A child reaching out is never silencedA child who writes about hurting themselves sees a caring message with the 988 line right away, and their message still goes through, while their guardians are alerted.
Guardians review, with the words that caused itAnything flagged goes to a review list where a guardian marks it fine or follow up. Urgent alerts come right away.
Time limits and quiet hoursA daily limit with a heads-up before time's up, plus quiet hours for bedtime and school. A child can always message their own guardians.
Our voices, on our own serverTalk to type and read-aloud (Hazel in English, Dora in Spanish) all run on our own server. Kids' voices never go to Google, Apple or any voice service.
No ads, no trackersNo advertising, no analytics companies, no data brokers, no outside scripts. Only games and books we host ourselves.

Where each child starts
Area	Ages 3 to 7	8 to 10	11 to 13	14 to 17
Cuss words	Stop it and tell me	Remind my kid	Just keep a note	Just keep a note
Insults and bullying	Stop it and tell me	Stop it and tell me	Remind my kid	Remind my kid
Personal info	Stop it and tell me	Stop it and tell me	Stop it and tell me	Tell me
Sadness and distress	Tell me	Tell me	Tell me	Tell me
Grooming warning signs	Tell me right away	Tell me right away	Tell me right away	Tell me right away
Meeting in person	Tell me right away	Tell me right away	Tell me right away	Tell me
Self-harm	Tell me right away	Tell me right away	Tell me right away	Tell me right away

7 of the 16 areas, as each child starts. Guardians can change any area for their child, except that a lock means it can never go below "Tell me". When two guardians choose differently, the stricter choice wins.

Keeping kids safe: a free guide for parents

For every family, members or not: parental controls on phones, computers, consoles and TVs, talking with your kids, warning signs and where to get help. También en español.

For grown-ups

Guardians hold the keys.

Each child has a page for their guardians: today at a glance, who's in their circle, their messages, the rules, safety and their devices. Changes save by themselves, and the server checks every one. Grown-ups can open every game, app and book too, so you can try anything before your child does.

MayaAge 7 · Little ones look

TodayPeopleMessagesRulesSafetyProfile & devices

Time today

35 of 60 minutes

15 min today30 min today

To look at

Personal info · held back A message with a phone number was stopped before it was delivered.

FineFollow up

Rules

Daily time1 hour

Quiet hours8 PM to 7 AM

Helpers

Talk to type

Pictures with GrandmaAsk me first

The Rules tab

Daily time limit and quiet hours, with +15 or +30 minutes for today
Which ages of games, apps and books they can open, plus single items to allow or hide
Helpers, talk to type and private diaries on or off, and a weekly reading goal

Nothing hidden from you

Read a child's chats and notebooks as their age allows; every opening goes in an activity log
See every device a child is signed in on, and sign one out
Read everything an optional helper said
See their songs, code projects and who they drew with on the whiteboard

Their data is yours

Download their data as a file you keep
Delete their account for good: messages, pictures, stories, notebooks, songs, code projects and games go with it
Old chats are removed automatically after a set time
Backed up every night, encrypted

Their week, at a glance

A weekly summary on each child's Today tab: time used each day, reading and streaks, games with the circle, what they made, who they talked with (never the words) and any safety flags. A notification on Sunday evening if you want one.

Hand your phone to your child

"Hand to Maya" turns your own phone or tablet into Maya's for a while, with all of her rules. Your lock code, checked on our server, gives it back to you.

See what Maya sees

Open your child's own Home, Play, Make and Read, in their look, without signing in as them. Only for their guardians, and only to look.

Works where they are

iPhone, iPad, Android, and whatever's in the backpack.

No app store needed

Add it to the home screen from the browser and it opens like any other app. On iPhone and iPad, add it from Safari: that is also what lets notifications work.

Made for weak signals

Games against the computer or a friend, puzzles, music, notebook pages and books they've opened keep working without internet.

Easy sign-in for small hands

A guardian sets up the tablet once with a code or a QR code. Kids never need a password.

Questions

Good questions to ask.

How does someone join?

Right now we're welcoming families by invitation. Inside OllyOlly, invitations are how people join a family: a family's guardians add their kids, invite the people they trust, and choose who goes in each child's circle. Having an OllyOlly account never lets anyone see or reach your kids. Only your invitation does, and you can take someone out of a circle at any time.

Join the wait list and we'll write to you when we can welcome your family.

Can other families see our family?

No. Each family's space is its own, with no directory and no search. If you want to connect with a family you know, like cousins or godparents, the guardians of both families say yes first, and even then a person joins one of your kids' circles only when you invite them.

Can the people who run OllyOlly see our family?

Today our administrator sets up each family by hand and can see accounts, circles, settings and safety alerts, to keep every child safe. The administrator reads a child's messages only if that child has no guardian set up yet. A change that's already built, but not switched on yet, will let us look into a family's space only when that family says yes, for a limited time, with every look shown to them. Our Privacy Policy explains it.

Can kids from different families play together?

Yes, when the guardians of both kids say yes, so each child is in the other's circle. Until the two families agree, they can't see each other at all.

Where does everything live?

On one private server that we run for OllyOlly, not on a big company's platform. The read-aloud voice, talk to type and the nightly encrypted backups are there too. We don't sell anything about anyone, and there are no ads.

Do grown-ups get to read everything?

Guardians can read the messages of kids under 13, and kids are told that plainly in the app. For teens, guardians see what the safety check flags, unless they choose to read more. Teens can keep a private diary if their guardians allow it, and the safety check still runs on it.

Do the helpers use AI?

Helpers are optional buttons with one job each, like suggesting a story title, explaining a chess move or helping with spelling. There's no open chatbot for kids and no web search: Ask OllyOlly, a chat helper for using the app, is for grown-ups, and its narrower kids' version stays off unless a guardian turns it on. They use Claude by Anthropic with locked instructions for children, their answers pass the same safety check, and they stay off unless a guardian turns them on for that child. Guardians can read everything a helper said.

What if a child's tablet gets lost?

A guardian signs that device out from the child's page, and it loses access right away.

Where do the games and books come from?

We build the games ourselves, or adapt open-source parts like the chess engine, so they follow the circle and safety rules. The books are classics that are free for everyone to share, with their original pictures, and modern picture books whose publishers share them under open licenses, with credit to every author and artist. We host all of it on our own server.

Is OllyOlly in Spanish?

Yes. A grown-up can set the whole app to English or Spanish for each person in the family, and the guides and help come in both. The library has 79 books in Spanish on their own shelf, read aloud by Dora, our Latin American Spanish voice, and Learn Spanish helps kids pick up words either way.