Let your child improve spelling & handwriting autonomously.

PenPoints is a mobile app designed to help children improve their spelling and handwriting skills. Using age-appropriate lists of words, it combines handwriting with spelling practice and provides instant feedback through Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

PenPoints is ideal for children aged 6–12 who are learning to spell and write at any stage of primary school (year1 to year 6) / elementary school (grade 1 to 5) and potentially beyond. The app is especially useful for children suffering from learning disabilities such as dyslexia, yet it is beneficial to all children needing to strengthen their writing skills.

Parents can install the app (on child’s tablet or on parent’s phone) as part of an independent initiative to support their child, or as requested by the class teacher.

Teachers can install the app on their tablet (to manage students/homeworks and run standalone in-class activities called “spellstations”) then invite parents to install the app on their child’s device.

Children practice spelling words by writing – with a pen, on paper – the lists of words dictated by the app.
After sending a picture of handwritten words to our AI teacher, child receives instant score and feedback to improve both spelling and penmanship.

PenPoints includes grade-level-appropriate wordlists made of phonic-based words, sight words and common exception words, homophones, and statutory words.
Parents and teachers can create (and share) custom exercises to focus on specific challenges.

A note that rule-specific lists are only available to teachers, while “mixed” lists are available to parents and teachers.
This is because rule-specific wordlists (made of words sharing 1 common pattern) make little sense if the pattern is not explained by a teacher.

Yes! PenPoints encourages self-correction, allowing children to review their work before receiving AI-generated feedback, fostering metacognition and independent learning.
A note that the “spellstation” in-class activities do not let children fix their mistakes as it would make the flow too complex and bias the results of the challenge.

Yes.
Parents and teachers can create a custom exercise by typing / pasting a list of words, or even by taking a picture of a list of words!

The app is available on iOS and Android devices and is optimized for both smartphones and tablets.
It will ask for the permission to use the camera to take (crop) and send the picture of handwritten words to our AI teacher.

Yes. An internet connection is needed to use the app.

PenPoints uses advanced OCR technology designed to recognize children’s handwriting with high accuracy.

For best results:

• ensure your child crops the photo to only contain handwritten words
• use 1 row per word, on a new sheet of paper (and repeat word on same row when fixing a mistake during re-try)
• encourage your child to “clean” his handwriting before taking the picture (dots on i, no space between letter, no line breaks,…)

Absolutely. PenPoints complies with GDPR and COPPA regulations to ensure the safety of your child’s data. We do not share or sell any user data.

Also, we do not show ads in the app.

For now, Penpoints is totally free to use.

During Q2 2025, we will introduce a Freemium model where parents will have the opportunity to pay to unlock exercises or advanced features ; and school will have the possiblity to pay to grant unlimited acess to their teachers.

Not for the moment.
Multi-child support will be one of the future Premium features.

Yes!
For example you can use the same account to login on your child’s iPad AND on your iOS/Android smartphone (where you can let the parent mode enabled so you can access resutls and personalise exercices from your phone…).