Small steps. Big adventures.

Learn together.
With your favourite
cuddly friend.

Entdecke Numbers und Letters mit deinem Begleiter. Sammle unterwegs Abenteuerbilder.

No account. No photo.
Ugu, your friendly green companion, waves to you.Your next adventure starts with you.

Coming soon: your cuddly friend in their own adventure picture.

Switched off during the test phase

During this time Uggadugu creates no AI pictures, not even with permission. Rewards are ready-made adventure cards.

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After a completed round, a new picture can be waiting: Ugu, the rabbit or the elephant has a small adventure as a plush toy, for example a picnic on the moon or ice cream with a dinosaur. An AI creates the picture, and it goes into the adventure album.

1. Your cuddly friend

Choose a character or your own picture.
Your friend comes along.

2. Discover together

Trace numbers and letters.
At your own pace.

3. Collect adventures

Finished a whole set?
A new adventure is waiting!

Everything Uggadugu can do

A learning journey for kindergarten to grade 2, guided by Lehrplan 21.

  • 25learning offers, enabled one by one
  • 9languages
For children
  • A cuddly friend comes along: Ugu, rabbit, elephant or your own plush toy as a photo.
  • Trace with a finger or type on the keyboard, both count.
  • Three fixed tracing levels: a wide path, a dotted guide or no guide.
  • Read aloud with “A as in apple”, sounds and words from the language pack.
  • A reward after every round: an adventure picture for the album, confetti optionally calm.
  • Journeys without detours: only 0–9 or only A–Z, pictures in between, the final reward at the end.
  • Mixed rounds: what was hard yesterday comes back tomorrow in a mix, with the question “number or letter?”.
  • Enter to keep learning, big buttons, no rankings, no countdown.
For parents, day care and school
  • Enable each offer separately; “Small start” shows only numbers, capital letters and memory.
  • Learning observations without grades: independent, with help, different tasks, repetitions due.
  • Several children can use one device with their own progress. Adults can delete an individual child’s data.
  • Class code as QR: carry the selection to other devices, no server, no child data.
  • Printable sheets from the same templates: name sheet, character sheet, decomposition house, play cards.
  • Backup as a file: take companion, album, progress and observations with you.
  • Lehrplan 21 reference documented per offer, together with the limits of what it shows.
Overview for teachers: curriculum reference, foundations and limits per learning path
Technology and trust
  • No account, no sign-up, no e-mail address.
  • Everything stays on the device: photos, progress, album, observations.
  • Previously loaded activities work offline. New content needs an internet connection first. Install directly from the browser.
  • No ads, no tracking, no analysis by third parties.
  • YouTube and AI pictures are off until adults explicitly allow them; during the test phase AI pictures are switched off completely.
  • Runs on older devices too: a second bundle for old browsers and a simple learning page with a small script.
  • Nine languages: German, French, Italian, English, Portuguese, Albanian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Kiswahili and Luganda. Luganda does not yet have its own audio clips.
  • Accessible: keyboard use, screen-reader labels, reduced motion, large touch targets.

All 25 learning offers, with curriculum reference

Trace and type characters 7
  • Numbers
    ⓘTrace or type the digits 0–9, with a demonstration and a quantity pictureMA.1.A.1
  • Capital letters
    ⓘA–Z with an example word (“A as in apple”)D.4.A.1
  • Lowercase letters
    ⓘa–z in the same journeyD.4.A.1
  • German umlauts
    ⓘUmlauts Ä Ö Ü with both dotsD.4.A.1
  • Special characters
    ⓘMaths and punctuation marks + − = < > · : . ? ! ,MA.1.A.1, D.4.F.1
  • Mixed rounds
    ⓘTrace familiar numbers and letters in a mix, then say whether it was a number or a letterMA.1.A.1, D.4.A.1
  • Write my name
    ⓘLook at, trace and copy your own nameD.4.A.1
Quantities and arithmetic 6
  • Discover quantities
    ⓘCount scattered dots and build the same amount in the ten frameMA.1.A.1
  • Build quantities
    ⓘIn the twenty frame: number word, decomposition, neighboursMA.1.A.1
  • Plus and minus
    ⓘUp to 20: choose the result from six numbers, a picture of the sum as a hintMA.1.A.1
  • More or fewer?
    ⓘMore or less? Compare two amounts and build the larger oneMA.1.A.1
  • Operators in the equation
    ⓘOperator in the equation: 3 ? 4 = 7MA.1.A.1, MA.1.C.1
  • Telling the time
    ⓘDay band, clock with the hour hand, reading and setting full hours, half hours and quarters, then five-minute steps and digital times with the part of the day; finally single minutes and durations (cycle 2)MA.3.A.2.a, MA.3.A.2.b
Listening, reading, language 7
  • Listening: sounds and syllables
    ⓘCompare first sounds and clap syllablesD.1.A.1
  • Reading: blending sounds
    ⓘBlend sounds, S-A-T → SATD.2.A.1
  • Letters in the word
    ⓘFill the gap in c_tD.2.A.1
  • Punctuation in the sentence
    ⓘChoose full stop, question or exclamation markD.4.F.1
  • Letter pairs
    ⓘFind the lowercase letter for the capital, even b, d, p, qD.2.A.1
  • What is missing?
    ⓘBuild the missing part up to tenMA.1.A.1
  • Vocabulary: listen and point
    ⓘHear 36 everyday words in 6 themes and point to the picture, also for English as an additional languageno curriculum code documented
Hands-on 1
  • Hands-on missions
    ⓘSix table missions with a result: shake box, sharing on plates, quick look, first-sound hunt, rhyme pairs, syllable boxes; the app checks the resultMA.1.A.1, D.1.A.1
Play with your own pictures 4
  • Memory
    ⓘWith Uggadugu motifs or your own photosMedia and digital discovery
  • Puzzle
    ⓘFrom your own pictureMA.2 (shapes)
  • My game pictures
    ⓘManage your own game pictures on the deviceMedia and digital discovery
  • My adventure album
    ⓘAdventure album: the last 30 reward picturesMedia and digital discovery
What we leave out on purpose
  • Account and password
  • Advertising
  • In-game purchases (payment happens only in the adults’ area)
  • Tracking and analytics services
  • Rankings, points, time pressure
  • Videos that start on their own
Who it is for
Families
Kindergarten to grade 2, five minutes a day with the cuddly friend.
Day care and playgroup
Shared tablets, a profile per child, printable mission cards.
School, cycle 1
Settings via class code, observations per learning path, printable sheets.
Homeschooling
Backup and import, learning paths with references to Lehrplan 21, no account.
Uganda
Low data, old devices, Luganda interface. Language packs are meant to be made with local speakers; today the voices are synthetic, and Luganda has no audio clips of its own yet.
To be honest
  • Uggadugu complements school and family, it replaces neither.
  • Observations are observations, not a diagnosis and not a grade.
  • The curriculum reference is documented; there is no official recognition or certification.
  • The voices in the language pack are marked as preview until native speakers have checked them.
  • Not all voices work correctly yet. Where a recording is missing, the device voice reads aloud; it sounds different on each device and is sometimes missing entirely.
  • AI adventures are switched off during the test phase. Uggadugu then creates no AI pictures.