Available on the App Store for iPad
School maths, years 1 to 10, where kids actually write.
An iPad app where your child solves maths the way it should be solved: by hand, step by step.
An AI tutor reads the handwriting and says what was right, what to fix, and how. No answer box, and nothing to tap for credit.
On an iPad you get a code for a month free. On Android you join the testing group.
Pick a world, pick a hero
I didn't want my kid learning maths by tapping a screen.
Open most maths apps and it is the same machine underneath. Four options, one right, tap, confetti, next. A child can guess their way to a streak and learn nothing. Several of them are more game than maths by now, and what maths is left is whack-a-mole in a costume.
An answer box cannot see the thinking, so it cannot reward it or correct it. A child who only ever produces final numbers is practising producing final numbers. The setup, the order of the steps, the estimate before the arithmetic: that is the mathematics, and none of it survives a tap.
This one is paper. The screen is squared paper, the pencil is a pencil, and there is nothing to tap for credit. The child writes out the whole solution the way they would in an exercise book. Then it reads what they wrote. Not the final number, the working: whether the problem was set up right, whether the steps are in order, where it went sideways. It says so in a few seconds, while the problem is still in front of them.
Maths on paper, the way it has always been done. With someone looking over their shoulder who always has time. A teacher with thirty children in the room cannot mark every step of every problem for every child, however good they are.
Who is behind this
I'm Björn Orri Guðmundsson, a father and an engineer, and the founder and CEO of Aftra, which shows executives how their organisation looks from a hacker's side. I built Next Level because I wanted a better tool for my own kid.
Want to reach me? hae@naestastig.app · lettfeti.com
How it works
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Placement
A short handwritten placement test finds where your child stands and where to start.
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A daily dose
About 20 minutes a day: practice, word problems, and reviews that resurface at the right moment so skills stick.
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Write, don't tap
Every single problem is solved in handwriting. Shown work earns several times the points of a bare answer, so guessing never pays.
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Feedback in seconds
The tutor reads the handwriting, says what was right, and gives a hint instead of handing over the answer.
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Mastery opens the next door
Each unit ends in a boss battle. The next unit unlocks at 80%, not when time passes. Monsters, relics and ranks keep it fun; mastery opens the doors.
A grade doesn't tell you what your child knows. The work does.
A letter on a report card says little about what is missing. Here, every handwritten solution is kept on the iPad. You can leaf through your child's real working, see where it slips, and watch the skills grow, one by one, mapped to the Icelandic national curriculum for years 1 to 10. The deepest ready-made content today is for years 4 to 7, and it grows.
Built on what we know about learning
None of these ideas are ours; they are among the most robust findings in learning science, and the app is built around them.
Privacy
No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your child's work lives on the iPad, not with us. Handwriting leaves the device only for the moment it is being graded, is auto-deleted by the AI provider within 30 days, and is never used to train AI models.
Available on the App Store.
Get it on your iPad and start. The first three days are free in the App Store, or a whole month with a code from the try page.
- Price: USD 11.99 a month or USD 119.99 a year in the Icelandic App Store, and $9.99 or $99.99 in the US. Elsewhere the App Store shows your own currency. One subscription covers two children.
- Pencil: your child writes with an Apple Pencil or a Logitech Crayon. A cheap rubber-tip stylus also works if you turn on Finger in the app, but then there is no palm rejection and the hand cannot rest on the screen.