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Glovoy Words · Launching this August

Daily word practice that sticks.

An English app for Indian children in Grades 1 to 6, covering the whole SOF IEO paper: vocabulary, grammar, reading and expression. Around 9,300 levelled words sit at its core, scored by real child-language science and voiced in Indian English, alongside a dedicated Spell Bee track. Ten minutes a day.

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Launching this August on iOS & Android

14-day free trial, no card needed · then ₹999/year

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How Glovoy Words works

A five-step mastery ladder, powered by spaced repetition. Built for how children actually remember.

Learning

Getting it

Got it

Locked in

Mastered

Meet

Your child meets a new word: its meaning, its sound in Indian English, and one example sentence drawn from a story they might already know. It starts at the first step, Learning.

Climb

Answer it right and the word rises a step, from Learning toward Locked in. Miss it and it drifts back down. Spaced repetition brings every word back on its own schedule, tracking each one, every day.

Master

A word near the top returns after two to three weeks for one last check. Only when it holds does it reach Mastered: truly learned, not just remembered for a test on Friday.

This is the Leitner spaced-repetition system, the same method medical students use to memorise 4,000 anatomy terms. It happens to work beautifully for a child's vocabulary too.

What makes it different

Levelled by real child-language science

Each word's difficulty is computed from the age children actually learn it, how often it appears, and how concrete it is, drawn from peer-reviewed norms, not someone's guess. The result is a difficulty ladder that rises smoothly from Grade 1 to Grade 6.

One word, the right challenge at every age

A word that stretches a six-year-old is gentle review for an eleven-year-old. The same word sits at a higher level in a younger grade and a lower one later, so every child meets it right where they are.

A daily session your child can finish

Short and capped on purpose: a few new words, a little review, then done. A daily habit, not a weekend cram, and never a wall of catch-up after a busy week.

Indian-English audio on every word

Voiced in Indian English, the way your child's teacher and the SOF audio actually sound. Not American "skedule", not British "shed-yool."

Idioms, proverbs and 100 animals, done richly

1,841 idioms and proverbs taught inside a little story, with the literal "trap" meaning gently flagged, plus 100 animals with their babies, groups and sounds. Every idiom is screened for safety at the meaning level, not just the words.

Mastery, not a leaderboard

Progress is mastering each word through spaced repetition, never speed or rank. The parent view tells you the truth, what's mastered, what's still tricky, what's yet to come, with no inflated streaks and no "falling behind."

~9,300

curated words, Grades 1-6

1,841

idioms & proverbs

100

animals: babies, groups, sounds

British/Indian

spelling throughout

Difficulty is anchored to peer-reviewed norms (age-of-acquisition, frequency and concreteness; Kuperman et al. 2012, Brysbaert et al. 2014), then validated to rise smoothly from Grade 1 to Grade 6.

A taste of what's inside

Six sample words, across six different topics, from the Glovoy Words corpus.

dauntless

Adjectives

Brave, and not put off by anything

a dauntless climber

illiterate

One-Word Substitutes

Someone who cannot read or write

one perfect word

flour

Homophones

Ground wheat for baking, not a flower!

spot the right one

a piece of cake

Idioms

Something very easy to do

taught inside a story

pride

Animal Words

The word for a group of lions

1 of 100 animals

mischievous

Spell Bee

Playfully up to a little trouble

often misspelt

Around 9,300 curated words like these, across six grades, in the app.

Pick your child's grade

Every grade from 1 to 6 has free practice right here, plus a full syllabus & format guide. Pick your child's grade to start.

Grade 1

SOF IEO + Spell Bee

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Grade 2

SOF IEO + Spell Bee

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Grade 3

SOF IEO + Spell Bee

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Grade 4

SOF IEO + Spell Bee

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Grade 5

SOF IEO + Spell Bee

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Grade 6

SOF IEO + Spell Bee

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Built for what Indian kids actually take

SOF IEO

The International English Olympiad is the most widely-taken English Olympiad in India. Section 1 (Word Power) is the highest-weighted section, and Glovoy Words covers its core vocabulary across Grades 1 to 6, as the floor to build on, not the ceiling.

Read the complete SOF IEO syllabus (Grades 1-6) →

Spell Bee

The major Indian Spell Bees, MaRRS Spelling Bee, CREST CSB and SpellBee International, each test different word lists in different formats. Glovoy Words has a dedicated Spell Bee track, with words chosen for genuine spelling difficulty, that prepares your child across Grades 1 to 6.

Spell Bee preparation guide →

Pricing

Every new family gets the full app free for 14 days, with no card required. After the trial, a daily Word of the Day and the whole Bedtime Stories library stay free for good. Premium unlocks the rest: the full daily practice across all four sections, the mastery ladder, unlimited Practice Tests, the parent dashboard, and the ability to add your school's spelling list.

Feature Free Premium (₹999/year or ₹149/month)
Daily Word of the Day✓✓
Bedtime Stories (full library)✓✓
Indian English audio✓✓
Ad-free, all of Grades 1 to 6✓✓
Daily practice: vocabulary, grammar, reading, expression14-day trialFull
The five-level mastery ladder14-day trialAll levels
Practice Tests14-day trialUnlimited
Parent dashboard14-day trial✓
Add your school's spelling listNot included✓

Try the full app free for 14 days, no card needed. Word of the Day and Bedtime Stories stay free after that.

Questions parents ask

What grades is Glovoy Words for?
Grades 1 to 6, all in the app at launch, each levelled to where that child actually is. There are two tracks: vocabulary (SOF IEO Word Power) and Spell Bee. Every grade also has free practice on this website. One subscription covers every grade, so your child stays at the right level as they move up.
How do you decide a word's level? Isn't that just a guess?
No, and this is the part we care most about. Each word's difficulty is computed from peer-reviewed child-language research: the age children typically learn the word (age-of-acquisition norms), how often it appears in real language, and how concrete it is. Over four in five words are scored from real data, not estimates. We then validated that difficulty rises smoothly across all six grades. It is the opposite of a teacher typing words into a spreadsheet.
Is it tuned for Indian children, or just an American word list?
Tuned for Indian children. Everyday Indian words like buffalo, monsoon and tiffin are treated as the easy words they are (Western databases wrongly rank them as rare), and grade levels are anchored to Indian exam and reader sources, not foreign norms. Spelling is British/Indian throughout.
Is it safe? What about scary or unkind words?
Two separate screens, not one. A child-safety floor removes unsafe or distressing words (it automatically caught words like "suicide" and "massacre"), and a separate warmth floor keeps gratuitously unkind words ("stupid", "idiot") out of what we teach, while keeping serious-but-legitimate vocabulary like "refugee" or "war." Idioms are screened at the meaning level, so an innocent-looking phrase with a dark meaning never slips through.
Why British/Indian spelling?
Because that is what Indian schools and exams use. Every word has one canonical British/Indian spelling (colour, centre, recognise), applied across the whole app. American spellings are accepted as a soft pass but never taught.
Does it work without internet?
After the first session of any word, the audio caches on the device. So yes: flights, weak data, no problem. The first session for each word needs a connection.
How is this different from a generic flashcard app?
Those are blank tools. You build the deck, you write the cards, you maintain it. Most parents quit after two weeks. Glovoy Words ships with around 9,300 words for your child's grade, each levelled by child-language science, voiced in Indian English, organised by topic, with daily session caps. You just open it.
Will it actually help in SOF IEO?
Glovoy Words covers all four sections of the SOF IEO English paper across Grades 1 to 6, vocabulary, grammar, reading and expression, each built as its own engine rather than bolted onto words. Vocabulary (Section 1, Word Power) is the highest-weighted section and the deepest part: synonyms, antonyms, homophones, spellings, idioms, one-word substitutes, gender, number and more. We treat the exam as the floor, not the ceiling, teaching the durable skills behind each question type rather than just exam tricks.
Can I add my child's school spelling list?
Premium feature. Type the words in, paste a list, or photograph a printed list, and Glovoy will auto-enrich each word with meaning, sentence and audio. Then it goes into the same spaced-repetition mastery ladder as the rest.
What's covered in the free version?
Every family gets the full app free for 14 days, with no card and no auto-charge. After the trial, a daily Word of the Day and the whole Bedtime Stories library stay free for good, so there is always a calm, no-cost way to keep the habit going. The full daily practice, the mastery ladder, Practice Tests and the parent dashboard are part of Premium.
Can I get a refund?
Subscriptions are handled through the App Store and Google Play, so refunds go through their flows (request via your App Store / Play Store account, not through us). The 14-day free trial is card-free, so for most families there is nothing to refund: you only pay if you choose to subscribe after trying the full app.

Be first to know when it launches

Glovoy Words arrives on iOS & Android this August. Join the waitlist, and start with free practice on the web today, just pick your child's grade.

No spam. We email you once, when it's live.

Launching this August on iOS & Android

Made in India. Built by a parent. Designed for Grades 1-6.