A daily story adds up.
Storybook words heard by age five.
Once or twice a week64,000 words
Three to five times a week170,000 words
Every day300,000 words
Rounded estimates, including repeated words. Logan and colleagues, 2019.
Why Anga
Small stories.
Strong foundations.
A new word. A question about the picture. A sentence they want to try themselves.
What research shows
Small habits make a big difference.
72%
more different words in picture books than in everyday talk with young children.
Montag, Jones and Smith, 2015.
Again!
Hearing the same story again helped three-year-olds remember new words better.
Horst, Parsons and Bryan, 2011.
Personal
Children learned new words better from pages about their own lives.
Kucirkova, Messer and Sheehy, 2014.
Together
Helping parents share books brought small but real gains in children's language.
Dowdall and colleagues, 2020.
In Anga
Each idea, built into the app.
Help at the hard word
Tap a word to hear it, then keep reading.
Favourites to come back to
100+ levelled stories to read again and again.
Stories about their world
Turn family photos into stories, written in any language.
Reading together, even apart
Up to 10 trusted people add stories to one Group Space.
Anga families
Three families, three reasons to read.
“My grandchildren live abroad, and I never felt confident writing in English. Now I write each page in French, and Anga turns it into simple English they can read on their own.”
FrançoiseGrandmother, writing to her grandchildren abroadFrançais → EnglishGroup Space
“My wife and son are in Singapore while I work in Seoul. When we can't call, I write him a story about my day or a holiday we shared. It keeps us close.”
Min-junFather in Seoul, family in Singapore한국어 → EnglishFamily stories
“My child is learning English, and I'm a beginner too. I wasn't sure how to help. Phonics, sight words and clear pronunciation in every story showed me how to support my child.”
LinMother in ShanghaiPhonicsSight words
Names changed.
Is English not your first language? Read how to help your child read English when it is not your first language.
“Reading together with young children weaves joyful language and rich interactive moments into the fabric of daily life.”
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The research behind the ideas
- Books and vocabularyMontag, Jones and Smith, 2015. Comparison of 100 picture books with matched samples of speech directed to children.
- Reading routinesLogan and colleagues, 2019. Estimates of storybook words heard from birth to age five.
- Shared reading and languageDowdall and colleagues, 2020. Review of 19 randomized studies, involving 2,594 children, of adult–child book-sharing programmes.
- Home reading and early skillsOECD, 2026, reporting the 2025 Early Learning and Child Well-being Study. Associations between family reading activities and children's early learning.
- RepetitionHorst, Parsons and Bryan, 2011. Experiment with 16 three-year-olds examining learning and remembering new word meanings.
- Personalised storiesKucirkova, Messer and Sheehy, 2014. Experiment with 18 preschoolers comparing word learning in personalised and non-personalised book sections.
- Shared-reading guidanceAmerican Academy of Pediatrics, 2024.
- Beginning-reading instructionInstitute of Education Sciences, 2016, revised 2019.
These studies explore children's reading and language development; they are not evaluations of Anga.