Boop Bay
Boop Bay app icon: a yellow rubber duck floating in the bay

Boop Bay

A gentle learning game for toddlers

Coming soon to iPhone, iPad & Android

Watch it play Get a note at launch

Boop Bay is a gentle little learning game for toddlers, made by a dad for his kid. Little fingers drag toys off a cheerful banana boat and drop them into the matching holes: colors, shapes, large and small, fruit, animals, vehicles, sea friends, picture puzzles, numbers and counting. A friendly voice names every one in English, Chinese or Spanish, and a little shark swims by to cheer after every round. When it's time to just play, there's a beach Playground full of things to tap. No ads, no accounts, no tracking, and it plays offline. For ages about 2–4.

  • 28 lessons and a beach Playground
  • English, 中文 and Español
  • No ads, no accounts, no tracking
  • Plays offline
  • No scores, timers or failure sounds
  • Collects no personal information

See it in action

27 seconds of the game's demo mode, with sound: colors, the little shark, fruit, counting ducks and the Playground. The white dot stands in for a finger.
Speaks three languages. The same moment in English, Mandarin and Spanish: “Apple! Banana!” · “苹果！香蕉！” · “¡Manzana! ¡Plátano!” Turn the sound on! (The language labels are only in this video.)
Say hello. “Cow! Moo!”, “Pig! Oink oink!” and “Cat! Meow!”, then vehicles, colors, sea friends, and the sun and a raining cloud in the Playground.

28 lessons and a playground

The toys ride in on a banana boat. Tapping one makes the voice name it. Then the holes rise out of the water and the voice asks to match them. When a toy lands in its hole, the voice says its name again. A toy dropped in the wrong hole just floats back to the boat, with no failure sound and no scores. Every finished round gets a cheer and a visit from the little shark, who does a barrel roll if you tap it.

Colors & shapes

  • A purple block dropping into its purple hole, with orange already home and pink and brown blocks still on the banana boat

    Colors

    Red, yellow and blue blocks go into the holes of the same color. Then green joins them, then orange, purple, pink and brown.

  • A square, circle, triangle and star on the banana boat above their matching shaped holes

    Shapes

    A square, a circle and a triangle each find their own shaped hole. Then the star joins in.

  • A large duck and a small duck in their own-sized holes, with the large apple dropping into its hole and the small apple waiting on the banana boat

    Large & small

    A large duck and a small duck, a large apple and a small apple. Each fits only the hole of its own size, and the voice asks “Large or small?”

  • A row of large, medium and small duck holes, with the medium duck on its way to the middle hole

    Large to small

    A large, a medium and a small duck go into a row of holes that runs from largest to smallest (“Largest to smallest!”).

Things

  • An apple on its way to an apple-shaped hole, with other fruit-shaped holes beside it

    Fruit

    Chunky apple, banana and strawberry pieces fit fruit-shaped holes, like a wooden puzzle. Then grapes join them.

  • A cow in its hole, a pig dropping into the pig-shaped hole, and a cat waiting on the banana boat

    Animals

    A cow, a pig and a cat each say hello in their own sound (“Moo!”, “Oink oink!”, “Meow!”). Then the dog and the duck join the farm.

  • A car in its hole, a sailboat on its way to the boat-shaped hole, and an airplane waiting

    Vehicles

    A car, a boat and an airplane (“Beep beep!”, “Toot toot!”, “Zoom!”) drive, sail and fly into their holes. Then the train joins them (“Choo choo!”).

  • A fish in its hole, a crab dropping into the crab-shaped hole, and a starfish waiting

    Sea friends

    A fish, a crab (“Snip snip!”) and a starfish swim home to their own shaped holes. Then a wiggly octopus joins them (“Wiggle wiggle!”).

Puzzles

  • A cat picture puzzle half done on its board, with an ear piece dropping in

    Puzzles

    A duck in two pieces goes together on a board shaped like the whole duck (“Finish the picture!”), and when it's done, the duck says hello. Then a fish in three pieces, and a cat in four.

  • A car turned straight and heading for its car-shaped hole, while a fish and a cat still lie sideways on the banana boat

    Turn it

    A car, a cat and a fish arrive turned the wrong way. Each tap turns a piece a quarter of the way round, until it lines up with its hole and drops in (“Turn it to fit!”). The first time, a pretend finger shows how.

  • A finished circle made of two half circles, and a triangle roof on its way to complete a house

    Build shapes

    A square and a triangle make a house (“A house!”), and two half circles make a circle.

Numbers

  • Pink numbers 1, 2 and 3 on the banana boat above number-shaped holes

    Numbers

    Big pink numbers 1, 2 and 3 drop into number-shaped holes as the voice says each one.

  • Boats carrying three, four and five rubber ducks docking at their matching numbers

    Counting ducks

    Little boats carrying rubber ducks dock at the matching number, and each duck hops as it's counted (“One! Two! Three! Three ducks!”). Count to 3, then count to 5.

  • Lime-slice boats carrying nine and ten ducks docked at the numbers 9 and 10

    Count to 10

    Boats of six to ten ducks, riding on two lime slices, dock at their numbers and get counted, two boats at a time.

  • Numbers 1 and 2 in the holes beside boats of one and two ducks, with the 3 still on the banana boat

    How many?

    Boats of one, two or three ducks tie up beside empty holes. Each boat needs the number that says how many ducks it has (“How many ducks?”).

  • A boat with one duck beside a boat with three ducks, with sparkles over the three just picked

    More or fewer

    Two boats of ducks side by side: tap the one with more ducks, then, next round, the one with fewer. The boats always differ by at least two ducks, so the difference shows without counting.

  • Numbers 1, 2 and 3 in a row, the 4 dropping into the next hole and the 5 waiting on the banana boat

    Numbers in order

    Put 1 to 5 in a row. Each hole rises only after the one before it is filled, and when the row is done, the voice counts along from 1 to 5.

  • A two-dot tile docked at the number 2 and a three-dot tile heading for the 3

    Dots to numbers

    Tiles with one to five dots, like a domino, each go to the number that matches (“How many dots?”).

The beach Playground: a sparkling sun, a raining cloud, number blocks, a beach ball, a rubber duck and a puff of sand

The beach Playground

A beach sandbox with musical number blocks, a beach ball, rolling waves and a rubber duck that keeps growing as you play: line the blocks up 1 to 5 or stack them, let the shark get the beach ball, or drop a block in the pool for the shark to kick back out. Tap the sun to make it sparkle, tap a cloud to make it rain, and tap the sand for a puff of sand. And there are secrets for curious fingers in the palm trees and the sun.

Opening soon

Parents: get a note when Boop Bay launches.

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For parents

Can my child wander off somewhere?

No. There's no chat, no ads and no social media links in the game. The only web link in it, to the privacy policy, is on the “For parents” page, behind a grown-ups' question.

Privacy

Boop Bay doesn't collect, store on any server, or share any personal information. Read the full Boop Bay privacy policy.