Who it is for
Ages 5 to 12, and what changes in between
One app, four reading stages. A parent enters a birth year once, and the app decides the rest: how the question is worded, how big the type is, and how much a child can finish without a grown-up sitting next to them.
The short answer
If your child is between 5 and 12, REVA Kids is built for them. Under 5, they can color and draw on their own, and the lesson is something you read together. At 13 a kid profile graduates: REVA offers them an account of their own, and the child app steps aside.
Nothing here is a paywall or a lock. Every stage is the same free app.
What each age gets
- Under 5
- The largest type in the app and the shortest lessons. A child this age is not reading yet, so the lesson is one you read aloud together and they answer by tapping the picture or the word you point at. The coloring and drawing pages work on their own, with no network and nothing to read.
- 5 to 7
- The early band. Questions are written in the shortest words that still ask the real thing, and the type stays large. A six or seven year old who reads can usually finish a lesson alone and come back to show you the points.
- 8 to 12
- The middle band. The same lesson a parent sent, asked in older words, with more of it: verse practice, a word builder, a prayer to write in their own head rather than on a screen, and the Berean Standard Bible passage opened straight from the lesson. Points and rewards work exactly the same way.
- 13 and over
- Out of the child app by design. At 13 REVA offers a kid profile its own account, with the adult app's own age gate and privacy terms. Nothing is deleted when a child graduates; what moves is who holds the account.
A parent never sets a band by hand. It comes from the birth year, and it advances on its own: the year a child turns eight, their questions start arriving in the older words with nothing for anybody to change.
What is the same at every age
- No account for the child. One eight character pairing code, handed over once by a parent.
- No messaging and no feed. There is nobody in the app to talk to at any age.
- Nothing to buy. No advertising, no in-app purchase, no subscription.
- No way out. No web browser, no links that leave the app, nothing for a child to wander into.
- Adjustable text and four reading fonts, including a face designed for dyslexia, in the app's own settings.
- A motion switch, which also follows the one on the device, for a child who finds movement on a screen hard.
What a parent decides, a parent decides in REVA Bible Companion: the lesson, what finishing it is worth, the rewards, and which devices stay paired. See revakids.com/setup.
Why the App Store says 6 to 8
The App Store's Kids section asks every app to choose one age band, out of 5 and under, 6 to 8, or 9 to 11. REVA Kids picks 6 to 8, because that is where most of a lesson lands: a child who reads, answering in their own words, earning points toward a reward a parent set.
That band is a shelf label rather than a limit. The app itself serves 5 to 12, nothing inside it is gated by the band, and a parent of a ten year old installs exactly the same app a parent of a six year old does. The age rating is 4+, so the app is suitable for every age it serves.
Not sure which stage your child is in?
Add them in REVA Bible Companion with their first name and birth year, send one lesson, and look at what arrives on their device. If the words are too old or too young for them, the birth year is the one thing to check: it is what every other decision follows from.