Soundly: First Words & Sounds
Photo flashcards for toddlers
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now in 19 languages. Every animal, instrument and vehicle spoken by a native voice, so your child hears a second language the way they hear their first.
Tap an animal. Hear the animal.
360 photo flashcards, 361 real recorded sounds, 19 languages.
Soundly is 360 photographs and 361 real recorded sounds, made for children who
are still learning what things are called. No cartoons standing in for the real
thing, and no synthesised noises. A cow photographed in a field, and the sound
that cow actually makes.
SIX WORLDS, SEVENTY-TWO THINGS
Farm animals. Wild animals. Instruments. Vehicles. Everyday life. Around the
house. Twelve things in every world, each with five photographs and five
different sounds, so a child who taps the same dog five times hears five
different dogs.
BUILT FOR EYES THAT ARE TWO
The pickers are bold clip art with a heavy outline, because a small child
recognises a thing by its shape long before its colour or its size. Then the
photograph arrives full screen, because that is what carries into the real
world. The cartoon is the door. The photograph is the room.
GROWS WITH THEM
Start with pictures and sounds alone. Add the spoken name when they are ready
for words. Add the written word when they start to read. Then add a second
language. Every one of those is a switch you control, and Soundly sets itself
up for your child's age the first time you open it.
NINETEEN LANGUAGES
English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish,
Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Indonesian and Vietnamese. The word on the photograph and the voice that says
it always match, so a child never sees one language and hears another.
The language your child is learning is a separate choice from the language you
read. A Norwegian family can have Norwegian menus and an English-speaking app.
MADE FOR SMALL HANDS
No advertising. No tracking. No accounts. No analytics of any kind, and not one
line of code that talks to the internet — everything is inside the app, so it
works on a plane, in a car, and in a waiting room with no signal.
Buying, the privacy policy and every setting sit behind a parental gate. There
is a tap lock that ignores the first few seconds of a photograph so it is not
skipped by accident, and instructions for Guided Access, which is the only
thing that genuinely keeps a child inside one app.
ONE PAYMENT
Farm Animals is free, for as long as you like. One payment unlocks the other
five worlds, every voice and every language, for good. No subscription.
Soundly first shipped in 2013 and has been rebuilt from the ground up.
Soundly has been rebuilt.
NINETEEN LANGUAGES
Every word is now spoken in English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish,
German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian, Turkish,
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian and Vietnamese — by a native voice in
each. The whole app is translated too, not just the words on the photographs.
The English recordings are the original voice actor's, exactly as they were.
A NEW LOOK
Redrawn for modern iPhones and iPad, in colour and in the dark, with the
photographs finally shown the way they were shot.
MADE TO SET ITSELF UP
Soundly now asks your child's age the first time you open it and configures
itself — pictures and sounds for the youngest, then words, then reading, then a
second language.
FIXED
· Tapping a truck five times crashed the app. It doesn't now.
· Sound plays even with the ring switch on silent, like any video.
· The language you choose is properly separate from your phone's language.
· A photograph is never named in the wrong language.
PRIVACY
Still no ads, no tracking, no accounts, and no internet connection of any kind.
The developer, John Galliano, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- John Galliano
- Size
- 362.1 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 18 more
- English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Made for Ages 0–5
This app is rated 4+ with content restrictions.
Some content may be rated higher, and may therefore be restricted and managed by the developer through in-app controls. - In-App Controls
Parental Controls
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Full version $5.99
- Copyright
- © Johnatan Galliano