Watch the pen
In every video and in the app, the letter is drawn the way it is written — one stroke, then a pause, then the next. Not revealed. Drawn.
Videos and an app for learning to write
Every letter has an order.
We teach that order.
Most alphabet videos and apps show a child what a letter looks like. Glyphy shows how it is made — which stroke comes first, which way the pen travels, where it lifts off. Watch it written in our free videos on YouTube, then practise it in the app. It is the same idea in every writing system — and in a drawing — which is why Glyphy can teach A, ಅ, अ and a fish.
The stroke order is the lesson
A letter drawn in the wrong order looks right and writes wrong. The hand learns a habit in the first week and keeps it for years. So every glyph in Glyphy has been drawn by hand, in the order a teacher would use, and checked one at a time.
This is not something only Indian scripts need. Anyone taught to write English was taught it too — start at the top, round, then down — because it is a rule about the hand, not about the alphabet. Most apps simply stopped teaching it.
Glyphy teaches it in two places that work together. The videos, free on YouTube, show every letter being written. The app lets a child write it themselves and says what went wrong. Watch together, then practise.
See where it starts
A guide shows the beginning of each stroke and the direction it travels, then fades as the ink goes down.
Then try it
In the app, trace over the letter and get told what actually went wrong — wrong start, wrong direction, wrong order.
Three writing systems. And a bus, a fish, a house.
These are real letters from the library — the same stroke data the videos are drawn from and the app ships. Press one to watch it written.
Each is drawn at the pace a hand would use.
Letters are where it starts, not where it stops. A square, a fish, a bus and a house are strokes in an order too, and a child who can draw a square the right way round has already learned most of what an A asks of them. Three hundred and fifteen simple drawings are in the library — animals, vehicles, food, shapes, things around the house — waiting on the same check every letter gets before it ships.
Built for the parent, not the algorithm
No stars, no streaks, no timers
Nothing that turns a five minute lesson into a thing to be won. A child who is racing is not forming letters.
Your language, wherever you live
A family in Toronto teaching the script their grandparents write in. A family in Bengaluru teaching English capitals. Each alphabet is drawn the way that alphabet is taught — none of them is an afterthought bolted onto another.
Free to watch, offline to practise
The videos are free on YouTube, no account needed. The app's letters ship inside it, so practice works without a signal.
One purchase, no subscription
In the app, buy the alphabet you need, once. No subscription for a writing system that has not changed in a thousand years.
Watch first →
Every letter has a video: the pen, the count, and nothing else. Free, on YouTube, and the fastest way to see whether this is how you want your child taught.
Questions →
What age it is for, what it costs, whether it needs the internet, and what happens when a child gets a letter wrong.
Start learning
Watch — free, on YouTube
The videos are going up now, one letter at a time. Watch them together with your child: the pen, the count, and nothing else.
Practise — in the app
Write the letter with a finger and see what went wrong. The app is being built, and it is close.
App Store soon
Google Play soon
Write to [email protected] and we will tell you the day it lands — one message, no list, nothing passed to anyone.