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Awe Garden
A bunny and a monkey sit in a sunny garden. Jigsaw pieces, a maze, a paintbrush and coloured dots float above them.
Calm practice games for autistic children

Awe Garden

24 gentle games for numbers, letters, thinking, listening and everyday life. No timers and no scores. Your child’s name, photos and recordings stay on your phone.

14-day free trialPriced in line with similar appsComing soon: iPhone and Android
Try the demoAbout Awe Garden
The Awe Garden home screen: six round buttons, one for each group of games
A pen shows how the letter A is written, with numbers at the start of each stroke
The sticker book, with one sticker for every finished round
24 gamesin six groups
4 voicesrecorded, to choose from
Privatestays on the device
No adsand no timers or scores
Why it is different

Why regular kids’ apps often don’t work for autistic children

Autism is different in every child, and some autistic children enjoy ordinary kids’ apps. But many are more sensitive to sound, light and movement, and many need routine and predictability. Apps made for the widest audience are usually built to be fast, bright and exciting. Awe Garden is built for the opposite.

Fast cuts, flashing lights and many things moving at once.

One calm thing at a time. Slow, steady and quiet.

Loud music and surprise sounds.

Soft recorded voices, a sound switch, and nothing sudden.

Timers, scores and streaks that can be lost.

No timers and no scores. A sticker is only ever added, never taken away.

A harsh buzzer or a cross character when a child gets it wrong.

A soft buzz and a short shake. The friend is never cross, and the right answer glows if your child is stuck.

Autoplay, adverts and in-app buying.

No ads and no autoplay. A PIN guards every link out of the app.

The same pictures and voices for every child.

Your own photos, your own voice, and the people your child knows.

Sensory differences and a need for sameness are part of how autism is described in the DSM-5, and design research for autistic children advises leaving out busy scenes, loud noises and fast-moving objects. Every child is different, so this is a guide and not a promise.

The games

A game for each skill

Every game is short and quiet. A right answer earns a sticker. A wrong one gets a gentle try again.

Numbers

3 games

Counting and number order

Thinking

10 games

Patterns, sorting, puzzles and matching

Letters and writing

4 games

Words, letters and drawing

Listening and words

3 games

Listen, choose and learn where things are

Family and people

1 game

Faces, names and who is who

Everyday life

3 games

Habits and routines

Listen and Select: a speaker button above two colour choices
Listen and SelectHear it, then choose.
Remember It: a chair and seaweed to look at
Remember ItLook, then find what you saw.
Which Room: a bowl and two rooms to choose from
Which Room?Put things where they belong.
Matching Objects: pictures in two columns to join in pairs
Matching ObjectsJoin the pairs.
What Comes Next: a row of ducks, fish and dogs with a question mark to fill
What Comes Next?Carry on the pattern.
Maze: a bigger maze, with a bear to guide to a pot of honey
MazeDraw the way through.
First, Then: a bath routine with three steps in place and one to go
First, ThenPut the steps in order.
Letters and numbers

Watch first, then you try

  • A pen shows how each letter is written, stroke by stroke, with a number at each start.
  • Then your child traces it with a finger. “Show me how” plays it again.
  • Letters A to Z and a to z, numbers 0 to 9, and 27 line shapes.
The pen drawing the letter A
The letter A as dotted strokes numbered 1 and 2, ready to trace
Your family

Your photos and your voice, inside the games

Make a puzzle from a photo of your child, your family, a pet or a favourite place. Record your own words of praise. Both stay on your phone and are never uploaded.

A jigsaw made from a family photo, with a faint guide and loose pieces
1. The pieces waitA new cut every round, from 4 to 36 pieces.
The same jigsaw with two pieces placed
2. Your child places themA faint guide picture helps.
The finished jigsaw with a message of praise
3. A quiet “Hooray”Said by name, in your voice if you like.
Your voice: three message slots, each with a record button
Your voiceRecord up to three short messages. One plays at the end of a round.
This week: a bar chart of rounds finished each day
Progress report: rounds finished, time playing, answers right and seconds per answer
For parents

Skills, not scores

  • See rounds finished, time playing, answers right and seconds per answer.
  • Skills are compared with your child’s own history, never with other children.
  • A plain line tells you where a little more practice would help most.
  • A 4-digit PIN guards the parents’ area and every link out of the app.

The screens show sample data from a test copy.

Safe and private

Built to be trusted

On your phone

Your child’s name, photos and recordings stay on the device.

Nothing to sign up for

Your child never makes an account. A parent adds a first name once.

No ads

No advertising and no tracking of children. Only anonymous counts, which you can switch off.

Clear terms

Plain-language Terms and Privacy pages say what we do and what we do not.

Price

Try it free for 14 days

One subscription includes all 24 games, your own photos, your own recorded voice and the full progress report. After the trial there is no free tier.

14 daysfree trial
ComparablePriced in line with similar apps

The price will be confirmed before the apps launch. Awe Garden is a web app today: it runs in the browser at play.awegarden.app. iPhone and Android apps are coming soon, with the same calm games.

Made by a parent

Awe Garden is made by Pradeep Miriyala, parent of an autistic child. You can find the maker at pradeep.miriyala.in.

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Awe Garden is a practice tool for parents and carers to use with their child. It is not therapy or medical advice.