Built on a real curriculum
Every spot on the path is one skill from an official framework — Common Core in the US, the National Curriculum in England, and the maths of four more countries — built the same way, one country at a time.
Ages 4–9 · 6 national curricula · iPhone & iPad
School skills, landed like tricks.
Your child's actual school curriculum — not “educational games” — played as skate, surf, BMX and snow tricks. 10 minutes a day, and YouTube waits until they're done.
7 days free · up to 4 children · cancel in the App Store in two taps.
🌍Six curricula · Ages 4–9
Six curricula are in the app today. This is the list.
Skill Ride carries six curricula right now: the United States, Grade 2 — 23 maths skills in five units and 14 reading skills in three, from the Common Core State Standards — plus England's National Curriculum, maths and reading from Reception to Year 4, and the maths for Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands across the same ages. Every question is built and checked before it ships. If your child is somewhere else, the maths path still works: number, place value, adding and subtracting across ten, time and money are nearly the same everywhere at this age. The reading path is English, and we only offer it where English is what your child is learning to read.
- ✓ Six countries are inThe US (Grade 2, maths and reading), England (Reception to Year 4, maths and reading), and maths for Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands — skill by skill, in each framework's own order.
- → More years and countries nextThe remaining years for each country, then new countries. We name one once it is in the app, and not before.
- ✕ Reading does not travelPhonics and sight words are the language itself, so there is no reading path in a language we have not built. Maths stands in; reading never pretends.
Why kids stay, and parents relax
A sport they love
Every right answer lands a trick. Streaks, gear and leagues keep them coming back, 10 minutes at a time.
Make screen time count
Pick the apps that wait. Videos and games unlock after the daily goal — on Apple's Screen Time, arriving the moment Apple approves our permission. The rider says “learn first”, not you.
How it works
1
Take the quiz
Country, school year, subjects and how they're doing. Two minutes, one question at a time.
2
Get a plan matched to school
We take the official curriculum for their country and year and turn every skill in it into a spot on their path.
3
Watch them ride & thrive
10 minutes a day, streaks, gear, leagues. You get a weekly report — and app lock will do the nagging once Apple switches it on.
Pick a sport. Ride a world.
Each sport is its own world with a path of spots. Same curriculum underneath, switch any time, gear carries over.
Skate
Skatepark City
CurbLedgeStairsHalf-pipe
Surf
Wave Coast
Shore breakReefBarrelBig wave
BMX
Dirt Trails
Pump trackBermStep-upMega jump
Snow
Peak Mountain
Bunny hillKickerRailHalfpipe
Ideas for later: parkour, scooter, climbing.
Practise, learn, land it
Maths and reading today. New subjects join the same path as we grow, so kids never have to learn a new app.
- 01 MathsCounting to times tables, fractions, money and time. Live
- 02 ReadingPhonics, sight words, fluency and comprehension. Live
- 03 ScienceLiving things, materials, forces and space. 2027
- 04 LanguagesEnglish as a second language first, then more. 2027
- 05 CodingSequences, loops and logic puzzles. Later
- 06 Your ideaTell us what your kid needs next. Vote
Built to follow school, country by country
Six curricula are in the app today: the United States (Grade 2, maths and reading), England (Reception to Year 4, maths and reading), and maths for Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands. These are the countries we are building towards. Year labels, skill order and the words a child hears in class all differ, which is why each country is built rather than translated.
🇺🇸United States🇬🇧United Kingdom🇨🇦Canada🇦🇺Australia🇮🇪Ireland🇵🇹Portugal🇪🇸Spain🇫🇷France🇩🇪Germany🇱🇺Luxembourg🇧🇪Belgium🇳🇱Netherlands🇨🇭Switzerland🇦🇹Austria🇮🇹Italy🇸🇪Sweden🇳🇴Norway🇩🇰Denmark🇫🇮Finland🇧🇷Brazil🇲🇽Mexico🇯🇵Japan🇰🇷South Korea🇸🇬Singapore🇮🇳India🇦🇪United Arab Emirates🇿🇦South Africa🇳🇿New Zealand＋more to come
A parent app that tells you the truth
Progress against the school yearSee exactly which curriculum skills are mastered, and whether that's ahead of where class is.
What needs a handThe one skill they're stuck on, with a 5-minute thing to do together.
App lock and bonus timeChoose the apps that wait and the minutes that unlock them. Runs on Apple's Screen Time — your choices are saved and apply the moment Apple approves the permission.
Up to 4 kidsEach with their own sport, rider, path and weekly report.
FOR SCHOOLS, TUTORS & ORGANISATIONS
Assign a skill. It shows up as the next spot.
A calm web console mapped to your curriculum. See mastery by learner and class, assign practice, share reports with families. Kids keep their own sport and gear.
One plan for the family. Two for the grown-ups who teach.
Family
$4.99/ month
billed $59.99 a year · or $9.99 month-to-month · 7 days free
- Up to 4 kids — from $1.25 a month each
- Maths + reading, every sport
- Weekly report (app lock on the way)
- A real curriculum, skill by skill
Tutor
$29/ month
Up to 30 students
- Web console
- Assign skills to the path
- Mastery per student
- Share reports with parents
School & Org
$3/ learner / yr
From 50 seats
- Classes, teachers, admin
- SSO and roster sync
- Curriculum coverage reports
- Data agreement, invoicing
Family is billed by the App Store in your own currency. Tutor and School & Org are invoiced by hand while we're in beta — write to us and we'll set you up.
The questions parents actually ask
How does app lock work?
On iPhone and iPad it runs on Apple's Screen Time controls: you choose which apps wait — videos, games, social — and how many minutes of practice unlock them. Apple grants that permission by hand and we are still waiting on it, so your choices are saved and apply the moment it is approved. Android is not there yet.
How is this different from “educational games”?
The skills come from the official framework — Common Core in the US, England's National Curriculum — in the order the school teaches them, and every question is built and checked before it ships. The app names whose curriculum the path follows, so what your child practises is what their teacher is teaching.
Which countries and curricula do you support?
Six, today: the United States (Common Core, maths and reading, Grade 2), England (the National Curriculum, maths and reading, Reception to Year 4), and maths for Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands across the same ages. Anywhere else, your child rides a maths path that is nearly the same number work at this age — and the app names whose curriculum it is. We name a country when it is in the app, never before.
My child cannot read yet. Can they still play?
Yes. Ollie, the coach, reads every question, answer and result aloud, and you can set a slower voice. Tapping a question replays it.
Does my kid need me next to them?
No. Kids play on their own. The parent zone is behind a grown-up check, and there are no ads and no links out of the app.
What do you store about my child?
A nickname, their country and school year, the sport they chose, and which skills they have practised. No real name, no email, no photographs, and never a question they answered or anything they typed. There is no advertising and no analytics SDK in the app.
Does it work offline?
Yes — every question ships inside the app, so the path works in flight mode.
Can teachers or tutors see progress?
Yes, if you connect them with a class code. They can see mastery and add skills to the path, and you can disconnect at any time.
Give them a head start. On a skateboard.
Get my kid's plan — 7 days freeSkill Ride is extra practice. It does not replace the teacher or the school.