BrightWren Plus
Free betaYears 3 to 6, in England
BrightWren picks your child's maths practice, marks it, and shows them how.
Free all 2026/27, and free for as long as we run it after that. It is written into our terms.
From the Join button to playing, in three steps.
We email you a code to get in. There is no password.
A nickname and their school year. Nothing else about them.
Then they are in, with today's Daily 5 waiting.
Daily 5 picks five questions a day from your child's year. The topics come in the order English schools teach them, term by term, and the questions get harder as your child gets better.
Want to choose instead? Quizzes let them pick any topic, a whole term or the whole year, ten questions at a time.
Most answers are typed on a number pad, so there is no list of options to guess from.
A wrong answer shows the right answer straight away, and why. If it is a common slip, the hint is written for that slip. If not, they see the method, step by step.
For parents
Your page lists every topic in your child's year, term by term, as green, amber or red: On track, Getting there or Needs a hand.
The colour comes from their last 20 answers on that topic, so it moves as they practise. With fewer than 5 answers it says Too early to say, rather than guessing.
Planet Pickup
Your child designs an alien and flies a UFO from planet to planet, picking up aliens with right answers.
Each term of their year is its own map, with a planet for each of its topics.
Head, face, ears, antennae, feet and colour, all chosen by them.
Earned with the asteroids they catch on the belts. Nothing is bought with money.
Won for answering questions, getting topics right, finishing planets and sitting mock tests.
Practise on any 2 days in a week and that week goes bright. Miss a week and nothing is lost. There are no streaks to lose.
Hats come from the Lost and Found, earned with asteroids, like the paint.
Year 4 Year 6
Independent practice, built to the published rules.
Year 4
Practise the tables with no time limit, or sit a mock: 25 questions, 6 seconds each, after three warm-ups that do not count. Every answer is typed.
Your page shows a fact map of the times tables: what they know, what is not right yet and what they have not tried.
Year 3 can practise the tables too, without the mock.
Year 6
Practise in sets of 5, 10 or 20 questions with no time limit, or sit a timed mock: 36 questions in 30 minutes, scored out of 40.
Your page charts every mock score, and lists the kinds of calculation worth another look.
Year 5 can practise Paper 1 too, without the mock.
For grown-ups
One account for the whole family. Each child is a nickname and a school year. The app never asks for a child's real name, birthday, school, address, photo or email address.
You sign in with a code. We email you a code, and there is no password to remember. The account is for a grown-up aged 18 or over.
No chat or messaging. And no adverts from other companies.
Nothing to buy with money. The child's side has no prices. Hats for their alien and paint for their UFO are earned with asteroids they catch in the game.
Nothing to install. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, and you can add it to your home screen.
Yours to remove. Take a child off the account in Settings whenever you like, or ask us to close the whole account.
Read the privacy notice and our terms.
Questions
Families who join the beta stay free for as long as we run the app. That includes years you open later as your child moves up, and any child you add later. It is written in our terms. If the app ever costs money, that is for families who join after the beta, not for you.
A nickname, their school year, the alien they design and the answers they give, all inside your account. We never ask for a real name, birthday, school, address, photo or email address. The privacy notice has the detail.
No. The child's side has no prices and nothing to buy with money. Hats for their alien and paint for their UFO are earned with asteroids they catch in the game.
Every topic is in the order English schools teach them, term by term. It cannot know this week's lesson, though, so Quizzes let you pick any topic.
It is new, so you may find rough edges. Tell us at hello@brightwren.co.uk and we will put them right.
Yes. One account, with each child under their own nickname and school year.
No. The Paper 1 mock is out of 40, like the paper, but a screen cannot award the mark a marker can give for working.
No. It runs in the browser on a phone, tablet or laptop, and you can add it to your home screen.
Free all 2026/27, and free for as long as we run it after that.
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