Written before they ask.
Checked before they hear.
Most of Lil' Phil is recorded ahead. Live talk is checked both ways.
Checked before it's spoken.
Why is the sky blue?
Roo here. Let's pick a picture and wonder about something else.
Roo here. Let's pick a picture and wonder about something else.
Roo here. I'm stopping our game for a moment, because what you said really matters. Is a grown-up you trust near you right now?
No account. No strangers. Nowhere to wander off.
Your rules can only make it safer.
Try to loosen them. These are the app's real answers.
Friends can't lean into “horror”. Their built-in care stays in place.
The note can name topics and family context, but not instructions or links.
Friends always change the subject kindly, so the note can't ask them to scold or report back.
Saved. All seven friends will lean into dinosaurs.
Reading aloud never leaves the tablet.
When your child reads to Phil, three small models do the work inside the page. Nothing they read aloud is recorded or sent.
How we built it
The usual way to understand a child's voice is to send it to a server. We went the other way. We cut a speech model down to the few words a page can hold, so it's small enough to download once and quick enough on an older tablet. Phil's voice runs the same way, and both stay on the tablet after the first visit.
To find which book they're reading, Phil may look up a few words from its cover. Only live talk sends their voice: it becomes words, the clip is dropped, every line is checked both ways, and the chat is kept for you to read. It's off until you turn it on.
Phil listens
A speech model we cut down to 28 MB listens only for the words on the page in front of them. It works with the Wi-Fi off.
Phil sees the page
The camera's picture is read right there on the tablet, so a page of their own book stays in their own room.
Phil says the stuck word
Phil's voice is made on the tablet by a small speech model, so a tricky word sounds like Phil, even offline.
What grown-ups ask
Are there ads?
We don't place ads in the ready-made library or use child data for advertising. Little Cinema plays only the YouTube videos you pick, in YouTube's own player, which may show YouTube's ads.
Who checks what a friend says?
Every line your child says and every reply is checked before it's spoken, including by OpenAI's moderation service. If the check can't run, the reply is held back.
What isn't built yet?
Alerts for less urgent worries, email alerts and a published safety test suite. Until they exist, we don't claim them.
Set it up your way
Link their tablet with your phone, choose what's on their home, and set your PIN.
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