Why Another Literacy App?

In the fall of 2020, we reviewed the Google Play Store for educational apps for the 553 indigenous languages spoken in the Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas. Out of 159 apps identified, 42 had active response activities. Six had spelling games, but these games moved immediately from passive word exposure to spelling from memory. There is a clear need for a basic literacy games app that builds spelling skills through a sequence of increasingly difficult activities.