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Seven friends answer your child's whys out loud, free.

Meet the friends

Meet their seven friends

  • Ages 4–8

    Wobble

    Giggles and games with a bouncy jellyfish.

  • Ages 4–8

    Roo

    A clever collie with a nose for puzzles.

  • Ages 4–8

    Lue

    Little paws. Big pretend adventures.

  • Ages 4–8

    Tiny

    Dino stomps for those big feelings.

  • Ages 8–11

    Zib

    Big questions become dragon-sized quests.

  • Ages 4–8

    Fuzz

    Making the dark a little more cosy.

  • Ages 4–8

    Clover

    A gentle bunny for friendship's little tangles.

5,000+ wonders that grow with them

Ages 4+

Why is the sky blue?

Tap a picture. Hear the answer.
Every age

Sunlight has every colour. The air bounces blue around the most.

Ask why, and it goes deeper.
Ages 8–11

Quest! Find three patterns in your room.

I'm ready
Bigger kids get quests.
Live talk

What shall we pretend today?

Hold to talk
Talk out loud, when you say so.

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New · Live talk

Now the friends talk back.

Your child holds the button and asks anything. The friend answers out loud, in its own voice.

Safe by default. Shaped by you.

Tap to ask is free. Talk is up to you.
Child-safe settings, always on.
Your rules, on top of ours.
Every word, there for you to read.
If something comes up, you know.

What grown-ups ask

Is talking free?

Tap to ask is free for good, with answers recorded ahead. Optional live talk uses credits from your Philomathia plan, and stays off until you turn it on.

What does a friend ask about my child?

Friends never ask for a name, age, school, address or photo. They use your child's age band and the family rules you write.

Can the chat take my child elsewhere?

No links, other apps or shopping appear in the chat. Friends never ask a child to go somewhere else online.

Is my child's voice kept?

Voice clips become words and are dropped. You can read or delete the chat's words, which are kept until you delete them or a year after your child last used Lil' Phil.

What happens if a friend gets it wrong?

Replies are checked before your child hears them, but AI can still make mistakes. You or your child can flag a reply for a person to review.

Pick their first friend

Open Lil' Phil on their tablet, link it with your phone, and add a friend to their home.

Open Lil' Phil

Put it on their tablet

Point their tablet’s camera here, or type lil-phil.philomathia.ai on it.

Or open it on this computer
How to set it up