For kids · any age, a parent sets it up
Made by them, not just for them.
Most “kids’ AI” is a cartoon on top of a chatbot. This is a workshop. Your kid gets stuck on fractions and gets a coach, not an answer key, and then a little game built for exactly that. Describes a game and plays it ten seconds later. Writes a song about the dog and hears it sung. They make things, and the making is where the learning is.
- An “AI helper” label in every chat, so it never passes as a person
- Web, pictures and texting are off until you turn them on
- Turn on check-ins and you can read everything
What they'll actually do
Four things kids come back for, starting with the one parents ask about.
Coaches to the answer. Doesn't hand it over.
This is the one parents ask about first. In tutor mode, Rumpus asks the next question instead of answering the current one. It gives a hint, checks their work, and when a concept isn't landing it builds a small interactive app for exactly that concept. You set this per child, in one sentence, and it holds.
Then it makes the lesson stick: once the idea has landed in chat, it builds a quick game around it, right there. Fractions become a pizza to slice; the water cycle becomes a cloud you fill and empty. Ten minutes of play does what a worksheet can't. And after 30 minutes it suggests a break.
what is 3/4 + 1/8
Before we add them, they need the same size pieces. What could you turn 3/4 into so it’s in eighths?
6/8?
Yes. So 6/8 + 1/8 is…?
7/8
Nailed it. I made you a pizza game to try five more. 🍕 Tap to play.
Ava, 11 · tutor mode
Their idea, on screen, made real.
“A game where you catch falling tacos.” “A quiz about the planets.” “A maze but the walls move.” Rumpus builds a small, playable game right in the conversation, and then they change it: faster, harder, add a dragon. It's the first taste of programming without a single line of code, and the lesson underneath is that you can ask a computer for something and shape what comes back.
make the raccoon faster and add a high score
Done: quicker raccoon, and your best run is on the board now. 🦝
Mia, 9
- 🔢A fractions pizza game, for the exact thing they’re stuck on
- 🪐Science toys: orbits, gravity, a volcano you can tune
- 🎯20 questions, would-you-rather, story games
- 🧩Puzzles and mini arcades, saved for tomorrow
A song about their actual life.
Not a jingle from a library. A real song, with vocals, about Liam's first goal or the dog who ate the birthday cake. They write the lyrics with Rumpus, pick the style (pop-punk lullaby is a legitimate choice), and then everyone hears it, with the words on screen for the car-ride singalong. A chore song has ended more than one standoff.
Bedtime stories they get to keep.
“A story about a fox who's scared of the dark, and he has a sister named Riley.” The book arrives illustrated and read aloud, saved to the family shelf. The best ones get read forty times. Pictures for kids are screened before they're made, and every picture has a report button, so you can tell us if one is wrong.
The rails, on by default
Built for the parent who's going slowly on purpose.
You don't have to trust it all at once. A new child profile starts with the doors closed, and you open them one at a time as you watch how it goes. Nothing here requires you to become a full-time moderator.
Honest about what it is
A small “AI helper” label sits in every chat, and if a kid talks to it like a person, it says plainly that it isn’t one and points them to the grown-ups in their life.
Off until you say
Web browsing, watches, sharing, pictures, texting and outside accounts are all off for a new kid. Each is one switch.
Rules in plain English
“Coach, don’t answer.” “No scary stories.” “Bedtime is 8:30.” You write them once, per child, and they hold.
Check-ins
Confirm with a code from your email and their chats are yours to read or export, whenever you like.
Their name stays home
When a kid asks Rumpus to look something up, their name, school and town are stripped out of what leaves the house.
A break at 30 minutes
After half an hour of actual chatting (not the clock on the wall), it suggests a stretch and reminds them it’s an AI.
And for the kid
It's still fun. That's the point.
The rails are there so the good part can be really good. Kids pick its voice and talk to it out loud when their hands are covered in glue. They get their own login from you, a code, no email, no password, and a space that's theirs, with a door you hold the key to.
nova can you tell me a joke about a potato
Why did the potato go to the party? Because it was a real spud-star. 🥔 Want a worse one?
YES
Riley, 6 · talking out loud
Add a kid. Open one door. See what they make.
A parent creates every child’s profile, after checkout. Start with games and stories, and turn on more when you’re ready.