Made an app to teach my kid empathy through little choose-your-own-adventure stories — emozi (iOS)
Hey everyone, indie dev here. Been heads-down on this for a while and finally shipped it, so figured I'd share.
My kid is at that age where "share your toys" and "how do you think that made him feel" comes up about ten times a day, and most of the "educational" apps I found were either glorified quizzes or had ads/trackers I didn't want anywhere near my kid's iPad. So I built emozi — short interactive stories for ages 5–10 where kids make a choice (share the toy or not, invite the new kid to play or not) and see how it plays out, with gentle feedback either way. No wrong answers, no lectures.
Some specifics:
- 66 stories across friendship, fairness, and big feelings
- Fully offline — no accounts, no ads, no data collected, no analytics phoning home
- $1.99 once, that's it. No subscription. 6 stories are free forever, rest unlock with the one-time purchase
- iPhone/iPad only for now
Genuinely curious what this community thinks — as a parent, is this the kind of thing you'd actually let your kid open, or is there something obviously missing? Happy to answer anything about how it was built too.