We are Lingokids

We’re the playlearning™ app for kids ages 2-8 years old.
By learning through play, your child will develop skills like creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication. Join the adventure!

Houston, we have a mission…
To help 25+ million families raise amazing kids through play, play, and more play!
Our history
There weren't many early learning app options for kids back in the 2010s... until CEO Cristobal Viedma took it upon himself to make one. In 2015, Lingokids was born!
Where it all began
End of 2015
We started forming our team and designing the first playlearning™ games for Lingokids
3-2-1 blast off! The Lingokids app is launched
February, 2016
Lingokids became available for Android devices
We reached 1 million users across the globe. Yohoooo!
March, 2017
Our first of many “million user milestones!”
Lingocharacters 2.0
January, 2019
Guillermo García Carsi, creator of Pocoyo gave our Lingocharacters an adorable new look
Lingokids Rebranding
December, 2019
We realized “life’s like a playground and everyone should get to play!” So our team created Play Together games for the whole family to playlearn together
Then, we created the Lingokids Community to help grown-ups around the world connect about their parenting journeys
Our numbers
Our kids grow fast, and so do our numbers.

600+
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Games, Songs, & Videos

3000
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY WORDS
All games in English

60
FOUNDATIONAL TOPICS
Reinforce in-school learning and introduce 21st-century skills

25+ MILLION
HAPPY FAMILIES
Already using Lingokids!
Our social responsibility
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Our educational board
The Lingokids Curriculum and Methodology are guided by our prestigious Board of Educators. Our board members come from diverse backgrounds in the field of education with expertise in literacy instruction, vocabulary development, child psychology, ESL instruction, and educational technology.

Suzanne Barchers, EdD
Education Advisory Board Chair Lingokids
Former Editor in Chief and VP of Leapfrog Enterprises; former Managing Editor at Weekly Reader.
Award-winning author of more than 250 books for teachers and children, plus two college textbooks.
Served on PBS and Association of Educational Publishers Advisory Boards.

David Pearson, PhD
Professor and Former Dean of Education. University of California, Berkeley
Holds the Evelyn Lois Corey Chair Emeritus in Instructional Science.
Notable awards include William S. Gray Citation of Merit by the International Reading Association, the Oscar Causey Award from the Literacy Research Association, and the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award from the American Educational Research Association.

Yong Zhao, PhD
Foundation Distinguished Professor University of Kansas
Professorial fellow at the Mitchell Institute for Health and Education Policy, Victoria University in Australia.
Served as the Presidential Chair and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon.
Received numerous awards including the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association, Outstanding Public Educator from Horace Mann League of USA, and Distinguished Achievement Award in Professional Development from the Association of Education Publishers.

Elfrieda Hiebert, PhD
President and CEO TextProject
Long career as both literacy educator and researcher.
Award-winning international expert on vocabulary acquisition and development.
Her work includes Becoming a Nation of Readers (Center for the Study of Reading, 1985) and Every Child a Reader (Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement, 1999).

Scott Traylor
Founder and CEO 360KID
Scott Traylor has a long history of developing digital product successes that delight and engage children everywhere.
Frequent speaker, adviser, and board member for companies involved in children’s learning and technology.
Developer of hundreds of successful learning products for companies such as LeapFrog, Scholastic, and Wonder Workshop.

Ellen A. Wartella, PhD
Professor and Director of the Center on Media and Human Development Northwestern University
Researcher in the role of media in children’s development. She is the Al-thani Professor of Communication Studies, Director of the Center on Media and Human Development and Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.