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Frequently asked questions

A clear guide to how Explorer, Compass, membership, language and family privacy fit together.

What Brielis is

What is Brielis?

Brielis is a family curiosity platform. Children explore illustrated Worlds in Brielis Explorer, while Brielis Compass gives parents a separate window into discoveries, memories and interests taking shape over time.

Is Brielis mainly about nature or Wildwood?

No. Wildwood Trail is the starting World, not the whole product. Brielis is designed to connect curiosity across nature, stories, STEM, language, logic, spatial thinking, creativity, mindfulness and future Worlds.

Is Brielis a lesson app?

No. Explorer is designed around places worth investigating rather than lesson menus, streaks or scoreboards. Learning is woven into exploration through noticing, listening, storytelling, reasoning, language and making.

What ages is Brielis for?

Brielis is being designed to adapt the way a child experiences a World by age and developmental stage, including more voice-led exploration for younger children and richer reasoning and expression for older children.

Explorer and Compass

What is the difference between Explorer and Compass?

Explorer is the child experience. Compass is the parent experience. Explorer protects the sense of wonder; Compass helps a parent notice what caught a child's attention and where that curiosity may be connecting.

Is Parent Compass a different product from Compass?

No. The product name is Brielis Compass. We may occasionally say 'Compass for parents' to make the audience clear, but there is only one Compass product.

Does Compass grade or assess my child?

No. Compass is designed for descriptive family context, not grades, rankings, developmental scores, diagnostic labels or comparisons with other children.

Will Compass invent insights if there is no Explorer activity?

No. Personalized Compass moments should be grounded in activity that actually occurred in Brielis. Preview surfaces may demonstrate the shape of the experience, but they should not fabricate a child's history or preferences.

Membership and Worlds

Can we begin without paying?

Yes. Wildwood Trail is included from the start for one child, with a complete English exploration experience and useful Compass glimpses. No card is required to begin.

What does Premium add?

Premium expands the Brielis universe with all available premium Worlds and destinations, richer memory, advanced Compass context, the full adaptive experience and additional language experiences as they become ready.

Is Butterfly Meadow included?

Butterfly Meadow is a Premium destination beneath Wildwood Trail. It expands the World with a different ecosystem and new discoveries around change, pollination, patterns and related ideas.

How much does Premium cost?

Premium Child is $14.99 per month or $149 per year for one child. Premium Family is $24.99 per month or $249 per year for 2–4 children. Annual billing saves about 17% compared with paying monthly for 12 months. Additional-child billing beyond four children is not offered yet and will only be published when checkout and family entitlements support it.

Language and learning

Does Brielis include Spanish?

Spanish is being built as an additional language experience inside existing Worlds rather than as a separate worksheet-style course. It is part of the Premium direction and is added only as the experience becomes production-ready.

Will there be other languages?

Yes. The broader language direction includes Spanish, French and Mandarin, with the same principle: meaningful listening, comprehension, stories, expression and cultural context inside Worlds rather than a few translated labels.

Does a child need an additional language to complete Wildwood?

No. English Wildwood is a complete experience on its own. Additional languages enrich the World but do not replace or block the core path.

What kinds of skills can Brielis support?

Brielis is designed to create opportunities for observation, reasoning, language, spatial thinking, creativity, executive function, emotional regulation and real-world curiosity without turning those skills into child-facing scores.

Safety and privacy

Does Brielis have ads?

No. Brielis is designed without advertising, infinite feeds, public rankings or communication with strangers.

How does Brielis approach children's privacy?

Brielis is being built with a parent-controlled family account model, child-specific data boundaries and privacy-focused product design. Our Privacy, Trust & Safety and COPPA pages explain the current public commitments in more detail.

Can children message other users?

No. Brielis is not designed as an open social network and does not include child-to-stranger communication.

Is Compass medical or psychological advice?

No. Compass is not a medical, developmental, psychological or diagnostic service. It is intended to help families notice and remember exploration inside Brielis.

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