Homework help apps: the screen paradox
Most homework help apps ask the child to do their lessons on a phone or tablet: the very screen you were trying to avoid. And many photograph the exercise to display the solution. KAÏDO does the opposite: zero screen on the child’s side, and guidance that never gives the answer.
Solving a problem by adding the one you were escaping
Many families install a homework app to help their child. The paradox is right there: to use it, the child picks the phone or tablet back up: the very object you were trying to keep away during lessons.
And a phone means distractions one swipe away: notifications, games, videos. Even with the best app in the world, a 7-year-old’s attention will not hold for long next to all that. The device is part of the problem.
Displaying the solution is not learning
Another common pitfall: some apps photograph the exercise and show the result directly, sometimes with the steps. Handy for finishing homework at 8 pm. Useless for learning: the child copies without understanding, and nothing settles in their mind.
KAÏDO refuses that shortcut by design. It never gives the answer: it breaks the difficulty down, asks simpler questions, and lets the child find it alone. It is slower than a displayed solution, it is also the only way to truly learn.
- On screen: the solution appears, the child copies, the notion does not stick.
- With KAÏDO: the child searches, gets it wrong, tries again, and understands what they did.
- Zero notifications, zero games nearby: the sphere does one thing only.
How KAÏDO replaces the app on the child’s side
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The child speaks, nothing to tap
One press on the sphere and they read the instructions aloud. No app to open, no menu, no screen to unlock: so no distraction within thumb’s reach.
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KAÏDO guides without ever solving
It rephrases and asks the unlocking question, step by step. Never the result: the path. The child stays active, pen in hand, on their real notebook.
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The parent, though, keeps an app
The KAÏDO app exists, but on the PARENT’s side. You prepare the session there (photographing the exercise if needed) and receive a weekly picture. The child only has the sphere.
The screen on the parent’s side. The sphere on the child’s.
An app, yes, but in the right place
Let us be clear: KAÏDO is not “anti-app”. It simply moves the screen to where it makes sense, with the adult, to prepare and follow, and removes it from where it harms: between the child and their exercise.
And because this is your child: no open-ended chat, GDPR-compliant data, no resale, no advertising, no tracker. KAÏDO is designed in France. You can delete the account and the data at any time from the parent app.
Your questions
Is a homework app bad for my child?
Not in itself, but the device is the issue: doing lessons on a phone or tablet exposes the child to notifications, games and videos. KAÏDO removes that screen on the child’s side and keeps only the voice and the light on the sides of the sphere.
Does KAÏDO display the solution like some apps?
No, never. Many apps photograph the exercise and show the result: handy to finish, useless to learn. KAÏDO breaks the difficulty down and guides with questions until the child finds it alone.
Is there still a KAÏDO app?
Yes, but on the parent’s side only. You prepare sessions there and receive a weekly picture (to reassure, not to monitor). The child only has the screen-free sphere.
Does the child need a phone or a tablet?
No. KAÏDO works without a screen: the child speaks, KAÏDO answers with voice and light. Only the parent uses an app, on their own phone.
Help with homework without handing the screen back.
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