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Say “Hey Lumo, let's learn”
Lumo lives on the smart speaker you already own, or on a phone tucked face-down in your pocket. No tablet to hand over, no app to unlock.
Built for ages 3–5 · Screen-free by designSmart learning,
Smart learning,
no screens needed.
Lumo is a voice-first AI tutor your preschooler talks to. Ten minutes a day of real conversation that builds reading and number skills — with nothing to watch, tap or swipe.
- 0 min
- of screen time per lesson
- 8–12 min
- the length of one session
- 14 days
- free, then $14.99/mo
Lumo is speaking…
Today's 10-minute lesson
LumoReady for a word game? Listen: c–a–t. What word is that?
Illustrative sample lesson — no screen, no tapping, just talking.
No ads, everNo video, no tappingAges 3–5Works on any smart speakerParent-reviewable historyMade for US familiesCancel any timeNo ads, everNo video, no tappingAges 3–5Works on any smart speakerParent-reviewable historyMade for US familiesCancel any time
The problem every parent already knowsEarly learning got great.
Early learning got great.
It also got glued to a tablet.
The best preschool apps are genuinely good teachers. The catch is that using them means handing a three-year-old a screen — and then taking it back. Lumo removes the device from the equation entirely, so the learning stays and the battle goes away.
See what we built instead2h 30m
Typical daily screen time for a US 4-year-old
1 in 3
Parents who say bedtime screens are a nightly fight
10 min
All Lumo asks for — spoken, not watched
2 strands
Literacy and numeracy, adapted per child
Figures shown are illustrative placeholders for a pre-launch product.
How it works
Three steps. Zero screens.
Lumo fits into the day you already have — no new device, no setup ritual, no negotiation about when the tablet goes away.
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Your child talks their way through the lesson
Eight to twelve minutes of real back-and-forth: blending letter sounds, counting out loud, telling a story. Lumo listens to every answer and adjusts the next question in real time.
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You get a plain-English progress note
Every Sunday, one short email: what clicked this week, what to practise at the dinner table, and the exact skills Lumo will focus on next.
Why Lumo
A tutor that listens, not a screen that entertains.
Everything below exists because voice is the medium — not because we bolted a microphone onto an app.
Voice-native, not voice-added
Every lesson was written to be heard, not watched. There is no fallback video, no animated reward loop, nothing to look at — because there is nothing to look at.
Literacy that starts with sound
Letter sounds, blending, rhyming, vocabulary and storytelling — the phonological skills that actually predict reading, practised the way they're used: out loud.
Numeracy through real objects
Counting the stairs, sharing out grapes, spotting patterns on the drive home. Lumo turns your kitchen into the manipulatives, so number sense sticks.
Adapts to the answer, not the level
Most kids' apps move you along a fixed path. Lumo hears hesitation, a wrong blend or a lucky guess — and reshapes the very next question around it.
Works where screens can't
The school run, the bath, the ten minutes before dinner, a flight. Learning fits into the gaps in your day instead of demanding a device and a table.
Built for a 4-year-old's privacy
No ads, no data sold, no recordings shared. Parents can review or delete their family's entire history whenever they want.
Compare
The good apps are still apps.
Khan Academy Kids, ABCmouse and Duolingo ABC all teach well. They just all require the one thing you're trying to hand over less often.
| Lumo | Khan Academy Kids | ABCmouse | Duolingo ABC | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primary way a child interacts | Talking out loud | Tapping a screen | Tapping a screen | Tapping a screen |
| Works with the screen off | Yes | No | No | No |
| Two-way spoken conversation | Yes | No | No | No |
| Adapts mid-lesson to the child's answer | Yes | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Usable in the car, bath or at dinner | Yes | No | No | No |
| Weekly plain-English parent report | Yes | Limited | Limited | No |
| Positioning | Premium 1:1 tutoring | Free app | Subscription app | Free app |
Comparison reflects each product's primary mode of interaction. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are referenced for comparison only.
What parents say
Fewer screen stand-offs. More talking.
We were losing the tablet battle every single evening. Now my daughter asks for “the talking teacher” in the car and I get twenty minutes of actual conversation instead of a screen stand-off.
Our son sounds out words at breakfast now, unprompted. The Sunday email is the first parenting report I've ever actually read all the way through.
I priced a local tutor at sixty dollars an hour. Lumo costs less than one session a month and my twins both use it — separately, and they don't fight over it, because there's nothing to hold.
Sample testimonials from fictional families, shown as placeholders ahead of launch.
Pricing
Priced like a tutor you can actually afford.
One plan, the whole family, cancel whenever. Below what an hour of in-person tutoring costs — above a generic kids' app, because every lesson is personalised 1:1.
Generic kids' learning app~$10/mo
Lumo · voice-first 1:1 tutor$14.99/mo
In-person tutor (1 hour)~$60/session
Comparison prices are illustrative US market ranges.
Lumo Family — one plan, every child
$14.99/ month
Start with 14 days free — no card charged until day 15.
- Unlimited daily lessons for every child in the family
- Adaptive literacy + numeracy curriculum for ages 3–5
- Works on any smart speaker or phone — screen off
- Weekly plain-English progress email for parents
- Full history review and one-tap delete controls
- Cancel any time, in two clicks
Lumo is in private beta. Join the waitlist and we'll open your spot first.
Private beta · US familiesGive your child the lesson.
Give your child the lesson.
Keep the screen in the drawer.
Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment early access opens in your area. Founding families get their first month free.
FAQ
Questions parents ask first.
Yes. Lumo runs on any smart speaker or phone with the screen face-down or in a pocket. Your child speaks, Lumo listens and replies out loud. There is nothing to watch, tap or swipe — the entire lesson happens in conversation.
Lumo is built for 3–5 year-olds, the window where phonics, letter sounds, counting and number sense take root. Lessons are 8–12 minutes, because that matches a preschooler's natural attention span.
Two core strands: literacy (letter sounds, blending, rhyming, vocabulary and storytelling) and numeracy (counting, quantity, simple addition and subtraction, shapes and patterns). Lumo adapts the difficulty after every answer, so a child who blends easily moves ahead while a child who hesitates gets another gentle try.
Those are excellent apps — but they are apps: a child looks at a screen and taps. Lumo is voice-native. There is no video, no animated reward loop and no tablet involved, so it works in the car, at the dinner table or during a bath. And instead of a fixed lesson path, Lumo holds a real back-and-forth conversation that adapts to what your child just said.
Yes. Lumo is built for the strictest children's-privacy expectations: no advertising, no selling data, and no sharing recordings with third parties. Parents can review or delete their family's history at any time from the parent dashboard.
Lumo is $14.99 a month for the whole family — less than one in-person tutoring session, and priced above generic kids' apps because every lesson is personalised 1:1. Start with a 14-day free trial and cancel any time in two clicks.
Families in our early programme swap roughly 30–40 minutes of tablet time a day for Lumo sessions. Because Lumo has no visuals, the trade is straightforward: the same learning minutes, none of the screen.
Still deciding? Try it free for 14 days.
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