---
title: Toddlebot
layout: project
description: Toddlebot is an offline-first web app for children aged 2 to 4, with nine activity worlds, a text-free symbol language, and an animated Bot.
canonical: https://bowdencloud.com/toddlebot
image: https://bowdencloud.com/assets/media/share-default.webp
image_alt: bowdenCloud - the digital workshop of Steve Bowden
last_modified: "2026-10-17"
tag: Offline Toddler Companion
accent: teal
pitch: One animated Bot and nine activity worlds for children aged 2 to 4.
features:
  - Nine activity worlds, from Animals to Maze
  - A text-free symbol language for pre-readers
  - Local save with a parent gate on export and reset
  - Offline play after installation
  - Reduced motion, tap alternatives, and adjustable timing
order: 3
status: live
link: https://toddlebot.com
link_label: Open Toddlebot
icon: /assets/media/icons/toddlebot.webp
media:
  - src: /assets/media/toddlebot/home.webp
    alt: The Toddlebot home room on a phone, with the Bot and a row of wordless symbol buttons
    caption: The home room and the symbol buttons
  - src: /assets/media/toddlebot/animals.webp
    alt: The Animals world on a phone, where a child chooses food for a cow and a chicken
    caption: Animals - choose food for each animal
  - src: /assets/media/toddlebot/art.webp
    alt: The Art world on a phone, where a child draws with crayons and stickers
    caption: Art - crayons, colours, and stickers
  - src: /assets/media/toddlebot/memory.webp
    alt: The Memory world on a phone, where a child turns cards to find a matching pair
    caption: Memory - find a matching pair
videos:
  - youtube: "4CCdfjESH5I"
    title: Introducing Toddlebot
    length: "0:46"
    embed: true
  - youtube: "tIgEg-FRw_4"
    title: "Play Together: Getting started"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "-swtoeb1aH8"
    title: "Play Together: Saying hello"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "-cCkHzNzR04"
    title: "Play Together: Feeding the animals"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "f0qGDq9IvrE"
    title: "Play Together: Crossing the road"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "E9XcSOB_Qoc"
    title: "Play Together: Making art"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "WOJc5XcF6t8"
    title: "Play Together: Dressing up Bot"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "Hljz3luDix8"
    title: "Play Together: Matching the pictures"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "h0xxUOa18pU"
    title: "Play Together: Growing a garden"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "MBmaHYVIu0w"
    title: "Play Together: Exploring the maze"
    length: "1:01"
  - youtube: "vjSJbR8LWSE"
    title: "Play Together: Connecting the pipes"
    length: "1:01"
---

Toddlebot is a play companion for children aged 2 to 4. It runs in the browser in portrait orientation and installs as a PWA.

The home screen is a chat with the Bot. Eight more worlds hold the activities: Animals, Traffic, Art, Style, Pipes, Memory, Garden, and Maze.

[Introducing Toddlebot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CCdfjESH5I) shows the Bot and the worlds in under a minute. The [Play Together series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLBjL8RmCbwk) has ten one-minute guides. Each guide shows a parent one action to try with a child.

Young children cannot read, so the child experience uses no text. A symbol language called TML has 73 wordless symbols. Each symbol has a sound signature and a spoken label.

PixiJS draws each world on a canvas. A second canvas animates the Bot with Rive, and accessible DOM controls sit above both canvases.

The app has no account, analytics, advertising, or backend. After installation, it needs no network. Progress and the art gallery save to IndexedDB on the device. Export and reset sit behind a parent gate.

Each device starts at a detail tier. If a device is slow, the app moves down from high to medium to low detail and stays there.

The art is 199 editable SVG masters, and the audio is 300 finished cues. Options include reduced motion, tap alternatives, adjustable timing, and narration for a parent who plays along.