Kina Wige

Play. Learn.
Grow.

A learning app for children aged 3 to 6, in Kinyarwanda first. It works with no internet at all, and nothing your child does ever leaves your phone.

Get it on Google Play
Scan with your Android phone

Free on Google Play · for Android phones · Watch 80 seconds ↓

The handwashing game, Karaba Amaboko
Kina Wige home screen: a learning path, with Kina the mascot on the next step
Works offline No ads, ever

Inside the app

Everything a young mind needs, in one small app

Kinyarwanda first

Made in Kinyarwanda, not translated into it

Every screen, story and song starts in the language your child already thinks in, with English and French one tap away.

  • Picture books that read themselves aloud
  • Traditional songs like Bayi Bayi Ingona
  • Switch language in one tap
A picture book with a Listen button that reads it aloud
Songs and episodes, including Bayi Bayi Ingona

Games that teach

Ten games. Each one trains a real skill.

Jigsaws of Lake Kivu and Akagera, counting, memory, patterns, shapes and colours. Every game grows with your child.

  • Counting, memory, logic and letters
  • Gentle when they get it wrong
  • A sticker for every game
The games screen: ten games, each training a skill
Jigsaw puzzles of Rwanda: cows on the hill, Lake Kivu, Akagera

Healthy habits

Wash hands. Trace letters. Step by step.

Children wash their hands at a kandagira ukarabe, in order: pedal, soap, scrub, rinse and dry. They trace letters with magic ink that only grows along the right path.

  • Handwashing, the way it is done at home
  • Letters and numbers, traced by finger
  • Everything works with no internet
The handwashing game, Karaba Amaboko
The tracing game: choose vowels or numbers to write

For parents

You stay in charge

A grown-up area your child cannot open, a play time you choose, and plain sentences about what your child can do, with an idea to try together away from the screen every day.

  • Play time from 10 to 20 minutes
  • A progress report on your own phone
  • A daily off-screen activity
The parents’ report with a daily off-screen idea
The grown-up area’s lock: a number written in words

From our test families

“This app reminds me of my childhood.”

Parent in Kigali On helping her child learn the songs, especially Bayi Bayi Ingona.

Before launch, 21 Rwandan families tested Kina Wige on their own phones for 14 days.

Songs and episodes, including Bayi Bayi Ingona
The grown-up area’s lock: a number written in words

Safe by design

No ads. Ever.

Kina Wige has no adverts, nothing to buy, no account and no tracking. Nothing your child does leaves the phone, because there is no server to send it to.

  • No adverts, ever
  • Nothing to buy inside the app
  • No account, no sign-up
  • The grown-up area stays locked
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See it

One lesson, eighty seconds

Hygiene, from what it means to why it matters — handwashing, the germs we cannot see, teeth, and keeping our village clean.

Isuku n’Ubuzima · an episode from inside the app

Schools & partners

For pre-primary schools, districts and funders

Kina Wige is built to sit inside Rwanda’s pre-primary curriculum, works on shared devices with no connectivity, and can report exactly which competences its content covers.

We are preparing a supervised pilot with real classrooms and real families. If you work in early childhood education in Rwanda, we would like to hear from you.

Talk to us

Start tonight

Get it free on Google Play, hand your child the phone for a few minutes, and see what they can do by the weekend.

Get it on Google Play
Scan with your Android phone

Free on Google Play · for Android phones

The sticker book of Rwandan animals
Baza Keza, the offline question-and-answer friend