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Atlas does not replace school — it is a tutor that teaches every subject and every grade for $5 a month for every child on the device, needs the internet once at setup, and never sends a child's name off the phone.

General

Is Atlas a replacement for school?

No. A tutor doesn't replace school — it takes your child further than they'd get otherwise.

And if there is no school, or the school is failing them, Atlas is still there — the same tutor, the same day, without depending on anyone else being free.

How is Atlas different from Khan Academy?

Khan Academy is a library with a path through it. Atlas is a tutor. Khan is free, enormous, trusted and genuinely good, and if it works for your family you should use it.

Khan's AI tutor is a text chat bolted onto that library, for a child who can already read and type and knows what to ask — and it isn't in the product built for young children at all. Atlas teaches a child who can do none of those things, decides what they do next from a running estimate of what they know, and does it with the phone in aeroplane mode.

Khan's own line is "for every student, every classroom." It assumes there is a classroom. Atlas doesn't assume one.

Is Atlas really AI?

Yes — and it's worth knowing exactly where the AI is, because it's not where people assume. The AI builds the curriculum. It does not talk to your child.

The largest models there are write the lessons, the problems, the hints and the tutor's words, on real machines, before anything ships — where a person reads the output before a child ever sees it.

What runs on your child's phone is an AI tutor in the sense that matters: it holds a model of what your child knows and makes a real decision about what they should do next, thousands of times. It just can't invent anything, can't drift, and can't be wrong in the way a chatbot can.

Who is Atlas for?

Any child, anywhere, on any Android phone — with a connection or without one, with an adult supervising or nobody at all, reading fluently or not a single letter. Every one of those cases is on For everyone, with what Atlas does in each.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Four reasons, and any one of them is enough. It needs the internet, and a great many children don't have it. It needs a child who can already read, type and phrase a question. It has no memory of what your child has learned, so there's nothing to hand you at the end of a month.

And the evidence is not good: in a study of about a thousand students, unguarded AI access improved performance 48% while it was available and left those students 17% worse than the control group on the exam once it was taken away.

Learning

What subjects does Atlas teach?

Atlas is built for the whole curriculum — mathematics, language, science and social studies. Mathematics is where it starts, because it is the subject where the prerequisite structure is clearest and a child can be assessed without reading a word. How it is structured is on Curriculum.

What ages is Atlas for?

It is built for the whole school range, and it starts with the early years — from about five. A five-year-old who cannot read a single letter can use it on day one, because nothing on the screen requires reading: the tutor speaks, and the child taps, drags and traces.

Does Atlas follow my country's curriculum?

Atlas is structured against a country's own national standards rather than against American ones translated into another language. And we don't claim alignment until a specialist in that country's curriculum has reviewed the mapping — a machine may propose one; only a person may approve it.

How will I know it's working?

You get a report, generated on the phone. It tells you what your child can do without help, what is still shaky, and what Atlas is working on next — in sentences, not percentages. Some weeks it will tell you that not much moved, and that is exactly the point of having it.

Are there streaks or rewards in Atlas?

There are rewards, and there are no streaks. Your child collects stamps and fills in a map. Nothing resets when they get something wrong, and nothing punishes them for a day they didn't get the phone. Atlas deliberately holds a child at the edge of what they can do, so being wrong there is not failure — it is correct operation.

Can more than one child use Atlas?

Yes — every child on the device is included, each with their own profile and their own separate progress. There is no per-child charge and there are no seats to count.

Your phone, and the internet

Does Atlas need internet?

Once, to set up. Then no. The lesson itself never touches the network — not for a hint, not to check an answer, not to save progress. Your child can learn for weeks with the phone in aeroplane mode, and if it never connects again it keeps working. The three moments a connection is actually used are here.

Does Atlas work on my phone?

If it's an Android phone from roughly the last several years, yes — including a cheap one and a shared one. Atlas is built to run at 2 GB of RAM on Android 10, which is the floor, not the target. A better phone holds more content. It does not get a better tutor.

How much space does Atlas take up?

Content is downloaded per grade rather than all at once, so Atlas never asks for the whole curriculum's worth of space on one phone. When your child moves up a grade, the next one arrives.

Do I need to buy a tablet?

No. We will never require you to buy hardware. The whole product is built around the phone already in your hand.

Price

What if I can't afford $5 a month?

Set your own price — $4, $3, $2 or $1, approved automatically. No application, no explanation, no means test, and it is exactly the same product.

If even that is too much, there is a scholarship. That one has an application, and we keep it narrow on purpose so that it stays available to the families who genuinely need it.

What happens if I stop paying?

Your child keeps learning. Everything already on the phone keeps working, indefinitely. Only sync and new content pause. There is no kill switch.

Is there a per-child price?

No. $5 a month covers the device and every child on it, each with their own progress. A family with four children pays what a family with one pays.

Does Atlas cost more in some countries than others?

No. One product, one price, everywhere. A family in Los Angeles and a family in Loreto pay the same $5 and get the same thing. The full price is here.

Privacy

Is my child's data safe?

Your child's name is never attached to what we learn, and while they are learning the lesson never touches the network. What syncs, when there is a connection, is the learning signal — which skills were practised and how they went — against a pseudonymous identifier. No names, no voice recordings, no photographs, no free text, no location beyond a region. The full answer is here.

Does Atlas record my child's voice?

No. Atlas speaks; your child answers by touching, dragging and tracing. No audio of the child is recorded or transmitted.

Are there ads in Atlas?

No, and there never will be. There are no in-app purchases either, and no content locked behind a second payment: the $5 is the whole product.

Schools

Can a school use Atlas?

Yes, and we are working with a small number of schools now. The unusual part for a school is that it needs no network, no server and no device trolley — students use the phone that is already at home, and the record travels with the child rather than the building. Talk to us, or read Atlas for schools.

Does Atlas replace a teacher?

No. It does the part a teacher physically cannot: thirty simultaneous, continuously-adjusted sequences and thirty running mastery records — one per child, updated every few seconds.

When can I get Atlas?

Atlas is not open to the public yet. Leave your email and we will write to you once — on the day it opens — and not before.

When Atlas opens, we will write to you. One email, that day, and nothing else.

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