Special Interest
QuillSpell
Spelling and vocabulary mastery through pattern recognition and play.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Quill
#FFA726 Welcome to QuillSpell — a competitive spelling bee and word mastery arena for ages 9-14. Master spelling through tournament brackets, etymology exploration, morpheme-building challenges, and an AI pronouncer that follows Scripps National Spelling Bee rules.
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
Etyma
Latin Quarter — Latin roots (port, scrib, dict, vis, audi, port)
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Sophia
Greek Acropolis — Greek roots (bio, geo, photo, log, graph, phon)
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Birch
Germanic / Old English Grove — short, punchy Anglo-Saxon roots (mouth, hand, foot, hear, see, walk)
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Saga
Old Norse Longhouse — northern roots (sky, take, gift, raise, weak, scant)
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Margaux
French Chateau — Norman-French roots (royal, chef, ballet, garage, hotel, courage)
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Zayn
Arabic Oasis — Arabic-origin English loans (algebra, algorithm, alchemy, zenith, sugar, cotton)
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Hush
Silent-letter clan (kn-, gn-, wr-, mb, gh, pn-, ps-)
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Twin
Double-consonant rule (running, beginning, hopped, planned — short-vowel-CVC + suffix)
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Ember
Schwa-keeper (the unstressed-vowel "uh" — `about`, `pencil`, `lemon`, `circus`, `medium`)
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Wren
Vowel-team duos (ai, ea, ee, oa, ow, ie, oi) — "when two vowels go walking"
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Affix
Suffix-stack guardian (root + suffix + suffix: nation → national → nationalize → nationalization)
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Cadence
Syllable-rhythm master (di-vid-ing words for spelling: VC/CV, V/CV, syl-lab-i-fi-ca-tion)
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What's inside
The Core Loop
1. Hear — Quill or the pronouncer speaks a word aloud (Scripps protocol)
Game Modes (unlocked progressively)
| Mode | When it unlocks | What you do |
Streaks, Belts & Quill
Quill's voice is encouraging and never punishing. A wrong answer gets "Tricky one! Every expert was once a beginner." — never "Wrong!".
Settings & Accessibility
Open Settings (behind a parental gate) to find:
Mentored by Quill — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How QuillSpell handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
Free companion pack
Download QuillSpell's printable pack
These materials pair with the QuillSpell app — print at home, color with your kid, work the puzzle sampler side-by-side, or tape the cast poster to the fridge. No login, no tracking.
Coloring sheet
Line-art versions of the cast — print and color with your kid.
Download PDF →Puzzle sampler
6 representative questions from kit 01, formatted for print.
Download PDF →Cast poster
Single-page cast poster — names, roles, portraits.
Download PDF →Parent letter
A 1-page note from Quill explaining what your kid will learn.
Download PDF →Generated from the same content the app ships. Reprint freely for classroom or family use.
QuillSpell runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
QuillSpell is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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