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For kids with dyslexia or reading struggles · ages 6–14

Smart kid. Struggling reader. There’s a reason, and a way forward.

A rhythm-based daily practice that trains the sound-processing skills reading is built on, about 20 minutes a day at home, and it feels like play.

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20 minutes a day
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Scientific ReportsScientific ReportsFirst trial peer-reviewed · Nature Portfolio, 2025
Children's Hospital Los AngelesChildren's Hospital LADigital Health Award from their Innovation Studio
Covered in FranceBy the national health system
Built with neuroscientistsAligned with the Science of Reading
01 · Why it hasn’t clicked

Reading isn’t just letters. It’s processing.

You know your child is smart, and you’ve done your part: the phonics, the flashcards, maybe a tutor. Decoding is one layer of reading. Research points to another underneath: the sound processing the brain uses to turn letters into words.

Poppins Learning works on the layer underneath.

ABOVE THE SURFACE: WHAT EVERYONE WORKS ON
The decoding layer: letters to sounds

The phonics, the tutor, the specialist. That work was never wrong. Keep everything that’s working.

BELOW THE SURFACE: RARELY TRAINED IN A CHILD’S WEEK
The processing layer: underneath decodingthe missing layer

Poppins Learning adds rhythm-based daily reading therapy for that processing layer, designed to work alongside phonics and your child’s reading specialist, and studied in two randomized clinical trials.

Poppins daily, plus reading support every other weekWeekly sessions with a reading specialist
Average gain · words read correctly in 2 minutes (EVAL2M test)
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+4.67adjusted differencep = 0.008
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Reading fluencyRandomized trial · 306 children · 12 weeksFrench EVAL2M test · only the relative result carries over to U.S. norms
02 · Our latest results

2.2× reading-fluency progress.

Most reading apps have never been through a clinical trial. Poppins Learning has been through two. Our largest trial followed 306 children: those who added Poppins kept seeing their reading specialist, just half as often, and practiced at home in between. Twelve weeks later, they had made 2.2× the progress of children on the full weekly schedule.

Poppins Learning adds to your child’s reading support; it never replaces it. Final results, not yet published.

A separate, earlier trial is peer-reviewed and published in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal, 2025.
Based on these results, Poppins Learning is now reviewed and covered by France’s national health system.
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03 · What we train

The three skills behind fluent reading

Daily rhythm-based play trains phonological awareness, reading fluency, and reading accuracy. Our two randomized clinical trials tracked all three.

Phonological awareness

The foundation of reading: hearing, separating, and using the sounds of language.

Reading fluency

Reading smoothly and at a natural pace, so meaning isn’t lost to slow, effortful decoding.

Reading accuracy

Getting the words right without slowing down: accuracy and fluency, trained together.

04 · A Poppins Learning day

Twenty minutes a day to read better.

A child holding a tablet, playing a Poppins Learning reading game at home

Why rhythm helps reading

Rhythmic training strengthens the sound processing reading depends on: the hearing-and-timing skills a child uses to break words apart and put them back together.

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Easy for them, easy on you

Screen time, capped

The session ends on its own after 20 minutes.

Adapts to their pace

Rhythm and reading games adjust to your child, session by session.

No homework fights

A session your child actually wants to start, no nagging required.

05 · What Poppins Learning is, and isn't

A clear method with clear limits.

What Poppins Learning is
A step-by-step sequence, each skill building on the last
Short sessions, about 20 minutes a day
Progress you can bring to the IEP or 504 table
What it isn't
A game reskinned to look educational
Endless, open-ended screen time
A replacement for your child's reading specialist
Another thing for you to manage
Homework they’ll fight you on
From real families

What parents tell us

"My daughter has been using Poppins for a few months now, and she still loves it."

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Anne A.
Parent

"It's really well made, a lot like the exercises the reading specialist gives him, and it's fun. He really loves the app."

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Claudia M.
Parent

"For now, I can see my son enjoys the exercises and is getting his confidence back."

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Audrey M.
Parent
06 · What reading support costs

Four Saturdays with a specialist: $500. The whole month, with Poppins Learning: $99.

One month of support, side by side
Reading specialist
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A reading specialist, 45 minutes every Saturday4 sessions · $125 each
Poppins Learning
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Poppins Learning, 20 minutes of practice every day30 sessions · every single day
Specialist$500/month
Poppins Learning$99/month
Your Poppins Learning planOne subscription, everything included.
Full access from day one, every game, every skillWorks on iPhone, iPad & AndroidProgress you can bring to the IEP or 504 table
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Our mission

An hour a week with a reading specialist is precious. But a week has seven days. We built Poppins Learning for the other six: a daily 20-minute practice at home, so the time between sessions stops being lost time and starts being a thousand small wins.

Questions

Parents often ask

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Most reading apps practice decoding (matching letters to sounds), and decoding matters. Poppins Learning trains a different, rhythm-based layer: the sound-processing skills research points to underneath fluent reading. It’s designed to add to the phonics or tutoring you’re already doing, and it has been studied in two randomized controlled trials, the first published in Scientific Reports, a Nature Portfolio journal, 2025.
Yes. In our largest randomized trial (306 children, 12 weeks), kids who added Poppins to every-other-week reading support made about twice the reading-fluency progress of kids getting weekly support alone, and that was measured against a reading specialist, not a placebo. A separate, earlier trial (151 children) is published in Scientific Reports (a Nature Portfolio journal), 2025. You can read more on our science page.
No. Poppins Learning is built for children with dyslexia or ongoing reading struggles, so if reading has been hard for a while, you can start today, with or without a specialist.
That’s exactly who it’s for. The sessions are short and playful, more like a game than a worksheet, so a child who dreads reading can still get through them without a nightly battle. Because the exercises are built around rhythm, they don’t feel like the reading practice that’s worn them down before.
Poppins Learning is about 20 minutes a day, on purpose. It’s short, structured practice, not open-ended scrolling, and it fits into an evening routine with no prep from you. The idea is to make those minutes count, then close the app.
Poppins Learning is $99/month, or a 6-month pack for $449 (about $75/month, save 25%). Cancel anytime.
Yes. Your plan renews automatically each month at $99/month until you cancel. You can cancel anytime in one tap, right from your App Store or Google Play account.
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Poppins Learning is an educational app designed to complement professional support for reading. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not regulate educational interventions for dyslexia, which is recognized as a specific learning disability under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

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