JuniorNexa: Kids Puzzles

JuniorNexa is a puzzle app for children aged about four to eight, and a quiet set of controls for whoever bought it.

ONE APP, TWO DOORS

Your child opens onto a screen with four pictures on it and one button. No prices, no scores, no menus, no settings to wander into, and not one word they have to be able to read. They tap a picture and they are playing.

Everything you need is behind the key in the corner: what they have played, which packs you own, your receipts, the language, the account. It is one tap away from them and out of their way.

WHAT IS IN IT

Four kinds of puzzle, drawn by hand for this app:

• Picture jigsaws — a photograph-free picture cut into pieces, tapped two at a time to swap them
• Counting — how many, one more, one fewer, more than or fewer than
• Spotting and tap-and-find — find the sea creatures, find the odd one out
• A bit of everything — a mixed set for when they cannot choose

More than 2,300 puzzles across sixteen packs. Four of those packs are free, fifty puzzles each, and you do not need a card to open them.

NOTHING TO FAIL

There is no clock on a children's puzzle here. At the end they get up to three stars and how many they got right — and nothing else. No percentage, no pass mark, no rank, no badge they have lost, no streak to keep up. A child who gets none of them right is told they finished, because finishing is the thing being reported.

READ TO THEM, IN THREE LANGUAGES

Every question has a speaker button. Tap it and it is read out, so a child who cannot read yet does not need an adult sitting beside them to start. English, हिन्दी and मराठी, and the choice applies everywhere in the app.

THE CAMERA NEVER TURNS ON

This app does not ask for the camera or the microphone. Not "asks and you can refuse" — the permissions are not in the app at all, so you will not find them in this listing's permission list either. Nothing about your child is photographed, recorded or uploaded.

NO ADVERTISING

None. No banners, no video between puzzles, no "watch this to carry on", and no advertising SDK in the app to collect anything.

WHAT IT COSTS

The four starter packs are free. The other twelve are bought one at a time, once — they are not a subscription and there is no trial that turns into a bill. Nothing that costs money is reachable from the child's screen.

FOR THE GROWN-UP

• What they played, and when
• How far through each pack they are
• Which kinds of puzzle they find easy and which they do not
• Every answer again afterwards, with the one they chose
• Your receipts

ONE DEVICE AT A TIME

An account is signed in on one device at a time. Hand the tablet over and it stays signed in; sign in somewhere else and the app tells you and lets you move.

WORKS ON A PHONE OR A TABLET

The same account on both, and the puzzles are saved as they go — a closed app, a flat battery or a lost connection does not lose the half-finished one.

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