Your child roams a world of hundreds of curious things — animals, objects, characters with real personality — and picks up their words and spelling without it ever feeling like a lesson. Pop into school to learn to spell what they've found, sort litter to watch it reborn as toys in the factory, and take a break at the arcade. Play first; the learning comes along for the ride.

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From inside the game

A look at gameplay.

Every screen below is a real capture — no concept art, no mock-ups. Drag sideways to walk through the world, the care centre, the farm, the school, the arcade.

A world full of things to find
A world full of things to find
Many places to wander
Many places to wander
Recycle litter and build a toy
Recycle litter and build a toy
Friends arrive sad…
Friends arrive sad…
…you tend to them…
…you tend to them…
…and they’re well again
…and they’re well again
Plant, water, harvest
Plant, water, harvest
A school to learn in
A school to learn in
Build words from sounds
Build words from sounds
Maths with friendly helpers
Maths with friendly helpers
Build toys at the factory
Build toys at the factory
Step into the arcade
Step into the arcade
Win prizes at the claw machine
Win prizes at the claw machine
Bowling
Bowling
Sky Sweeper
Sky Sweeper
A sticker book that remembers
A sticker book that remembers

A peek at the movies inside

Recycle Friends has its own little films — a recycled friend explaining where everyday things go, with a fact and a joke. Tap to watch.

Where Does My Soda Can Go?

Stories & songs

Storybooks and songs become videos — the words light up as they're read or sung, so a child can follow along. Tap to watch.

Bee Visits Petal
Bumble's Morning Song

Watch more on YouTube →

Clean it up

Trash becomes something new.

Litter turns up in every place. Your child taps a piece, drags it to a depot, and sorts it into the right bin — paper, plastic, glass, metal, organic. Sorted right, it becomes raw material. Then at the toy factory they combine those materials by recipe and build something brand new — a toy made from the very trash they cleaned up. That's recycling, shown not told.

The full cycle

From trash to toy.

Litter doesn't just disappear — your child sees where it goes. Sort it by material, take it to the toy factory, combine the pieces, and out comes something brand new to play with. Here is the whole loop.

  1. Metal for recycling.Metal
  2. Glass for recycling.Glass
  3. Plastic for recycling.Plastic
  4. Paper for recycling.Paper
  5. The toy factory.Toy factory
  6. A factory conveyor combining materials.Combine
  7. A toy robot built from recycled materials.A new toy
Heal the hurt

Friends get well at the care centre.

Pollution makes the creatures sad. Your child finds them in the world, brings them to a care centre, and plays small games — medicine, bandages, washing, food — until each friend is well and bright again.

Grow it

Plant, water, harvest.

Organic scraps sorted at a depot drop as seeds. Plant one in your farm patch, then drag a rain cloud across it to water it — each watering nudges it another stage, from sprout to ready-to-harvest. Playing elsewhere in the world helps the garden grow too. It remembers what your child planted, even if you close the app.

An empty farm patch, ready for planting.

Your patch starts empty.

A tiny corn sprout.
Sprout
The corn growing, leaves spreading.
Growing
Mature corn, ready to harvest.
Ready
The full cycle

From trash to friend.

Organic scraps don't go to waste. Sort them at a depot and they come back as seeds — plant one, water it, and harvest what grows. That harvest becomes food, and the food helps heal a sick creature back into a friend. Here is the whole loop.

  1. A discarded banana peel.Litter found
  2. An organic recycling bin.Recycle
  3. A tiny banana sprout.Plant
  4. A watering can.Water
  5. The banana plant growing.Grow
  6. A garden shovel.Harvest
  7. A harvested plant, ready to eat.Food
  8. A care centre.Care centre
  9. A sad, smudged creature.Heal…
  10. A bright, healed creature — a new friend.A new friend
Learn at school

Classrooms to explore.

Each classroom has its own door, its own look, and its own little games — letters, numbers, shapes, sounds, and the world around us. Here's a taste of what's behind each one.

Reading Letter Hunt — find the letter, learn its sound
Maths Count & Add with friendly helpers
Art Colour In — paint, trace and decorate
Music Beat Tap — keep the rhythm going
Science Living or Not? — sort the world around us
A world to wander

A world of places to explore.

Every place has its own light, its own creatures, its own sounds. Your child wanders as far as they like, and more places land with every update.