Whyland
A 3D island adventure for kids 4 to 12, made for iPad. Every learning step fixes, builds or wakes up something real.
A free start
Return to your explorerNo ads, ever. Grown-up settings stay behind a grown-ups check.
How it starts
About 15 minutes at the homestead: a crash landing, the road home to wake up, a scared hedgehog to help and a first build at home. Then a good place to stop.
The homestead, Friendship Meadow with its labs and the Calm Corner, and Chapter 1 of the first land are free for as long as you like.
The other lands sleep under the mist until the story wakes them, one at a time, and your child picks which comes next.
A grown-up can choose a membership in Grown-ups for every chapter after the first. Your child never sees a price or a lock, and everything earned stays.
Every crystal on the island holds one real idea, from counting to coding. Kids walk up, try it with their hands, then show what they know. The island remembers what each child has mastered and wakes up the ideas that build on it.
The island grows with you
A new explorer starts at home, with a guided first visit. Each land wakes up through the story, and in a land that is awake the crystals are picked for your child's age and what they can already do. Master one and the next idea grows out of it. At most three glow in a land at once, so nothing floods in and there is always a choice.
Each one is three levels deep, from the Number Caves to the Pharaoh's Tombs. Step on the right answer stone to open a gate or raise a bridge, then find the treasure chest. A deeper level opens after three ideas mastered in that land, and the deepest after six.
A guide in every land, like Professor Pip in Discovery Bay and Rivet the robot on Robot Reef. Rook the raven, Professor Muddle the raccoon, Spokes the hedgehog, Mabel the bear, Noodle the cat, Biscuit the puppy, Pebble the penguin, Sprocket the robot, Wick the frog, Barnacle the goat, Pearl the bunny and Hazel the owl wander the paths, and Digby the mole and Echo the bat wait in the caves. When a friend has a tip, a sign bounces over their head. They suggest what to try next and can light the way there.
How it works
Pick a skin tone, a shirt and a backpack, then the lands you love most. Learning unlocks gear like the lab goggles and story feather, and sparks you earn swap for more, up to the golden crown.
Every land is a subject, with its own guide, cave, paths, critters and treasure chests. The story wakes them one at a time, and new powers open new places as you grow.
Every idea starts with something to try: a hands-on lab, a sort, a match, a story to finish. Then a short challenge lets you prove it and master the idea.
The nine lands roll up into six big skills, each with its own sub-skills inside. Every idea you master makes one of them grow.
The Lab Hall
Boil water and watch the molecules fly apart. Close a circuit and the bulb lights up. Every lab is a proper toy, with missions from age 4 to 12.
The knowledge map
Every idea on the island, joined up, from first sounds to how AI works. Follow a link back and you find what to learn first. Follow it forward and you see where it leads.
See the knowledge mapThe island
Each corner of the island is a subject, with its own guide and its own cave. The lands wake up one at a time through the story, and once awake you can walk from one to the next with no loading screens in between.
Our promises
Trying, building and exploring are how you move forward on the island. The play is the lesson, not a reward for sitting through one.
Tell it their age and it meets them there. It eases off when something is tricky and stretches them when it gets easy.
Nothing for sale inside the game and no strangers to talk to. Sparks are earned by playing and swapped for gear, never sold.
Play winds down as the sun sets over the island, or when your own time limit is up. No streak guilt and no nagging, just a good place to stop.
1,634 ideas, joined by 3,221 links, from first sounds to how AI works. Follow a link back and you find what to learn first. Follow it forward and you see where it leads.
A real thread from the map
And 266 more ideas on the map build on A ten is ten ones.
