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Turn Anything They're Curious About Into A Podcast Made Just For Them
Tell us their age and what they're curious about. Dinosaurs. Volcanoes. Why the moon seems to follow the car. Obbo turns it into a five-minute podcast written and narrated at just the right level for them.
Made for how they understand
Why Is The Sky Blue?
A four-year-old and an eleven-year-old can ask exactly the same question — but they shouldn't get the same answer. Choose your child's age and every episode adapts the words, examples and level of detail to them.
Ages 3–5PreschoolSunlight looks white. But it is really all the colors mixed together. The sky bounces the blue one all around us. The other colors shoot straight past. So blue ends up everywhere, and the rest stays where the sun is.
Ages 6–8Early ReaderWhite sunlight is really all the colors mixed together. Air scatters blue — bounces it in every direction — while the other colors carry straight on. So the sky glows blue and the sun still looks yellow.
Ages 9–12TweenAir molecules deflect short blue wavelengths far more than long red ones, so blue arrives from every direction while red carries straight through. That's why the sky glows blue, the sun reads yellow, and a sunset — seen through far more air — goes red.
What can they ask?
Anything They Wonder About
Start as broad as a whole subject or as small as one strange question. If they can wonder about it, you can make a podcast about it.
Or As Specific As They Get
Why does Saturn have rings? How do bees know which flower to visit? Do fish sleep? Why does thunder come after lightning?
Big Questions, Made Approachable
Kids can ask surprisingly big questions. We explain them at a level they can understand while keeping the wonder.
Where it comes from
Simple Answers. Serious Research.
We make the explanation simpler — not the research behind it. Here are the same three “Why is the sky blue?” episodes from earlier, one per age, and the sources behind each one. Every episode ends with its own list, linked, so you can open any source and see what the episode was built on.
Ages 3–5
“Sunlight looks white. But it is really all the colors mixed together.” Built from NASA Space Place, the American Meteorological Society's Glossary of Meteorology, and a university atmospheric-optics textbook.
Ages 6–8
“Air scatters blue — bounces it in every direction.” Built from three different parts of NASA’s own science material: Space Place, the Visible Light explainer, and solar imaging from NASA Goddard.
Ages 9–12
“Air molecules deflect short blue wavelengths far more than long red ones.” Built from the Feynman Lectures at Caltech, MIT OpenCourseWare, the Newton Project at Oxford, and NASA.
From question to podcast in minutes
What You Tell Us
Tell us who's listening and what has them wondering. We'll take it from there.
Who's Listening?
Pick 3–5, 6–8, or 9–12. Everything after this is written to that choice.
What Are They Curious About?
Why their fingers get wrinkly in the bath. Whether birds are really dinosaurs. What's inside Jupiter. Where food goes after they swallow it. Whatever they have been asking you at dinner.
Pick A Voice
Choose whether the narrator sounds like a man or a woman. The voice is cast from a shortlist chosen for young listeners.
Choose A Rhythm
New episodes on the days you pick, or one the moment they ask for it.
What are they curious about today?
Create Their First PodcastHow an episode is made
More Than An AI Answer
Little Learner doesn't simply turn an AI answer into audio. What happens in between is the difference between an answer and an episode worth listening to.
Planned Before It's Written
Each episode is built around one idea of its own, so a show is a set of real episodes rather than one long answer cut into pieces.
A Full Transcript, Every Time
Every episode ships with its complete text, so you can read exactly what your child was told and trace any claim back to the source it came from.
The Voice Is A Performance
It should sound like something your child wants to keep listening to, rather than a computer reading an answer aloud. Hear one above and decide for yourself.
Visual companion
See What They Just Heard
Every episode comes with a Visual Companion — an illustrated page that helps turn what they heard into something they can see, point to and talk about with you.
Made For That Episode
Drawn around the one idea that episode taught, so the picture and the story are about the same thing.
Go Back To It
Open it again after listening, at their pace, as many times as they want.
Share A Link
They collect into one growing set for the show, and any page can be sent to family with a link.
He'd been asking all week how the hot tub worked, so we made him a podcast about it for the drive home. He loved it — and then immediately wanted another one.
Everyday use
Made To Fit Real Life
Five minutes in the car. While getting ready for bed. Waiting for a table. Whenever curiosity strikes, there is time for an episode.
Listen With The Screen Off
An episode is audio from start to finish, so it plays in the car with the screen off and nothing is missed. The Visual Companion is there for when a screen is welcome — an illustrated page to look at and point to. Same episode, either way, and you decide which day is which.
No Ads, No Endless Feed
They listen to the episode they came for, without ads, autoplay, or an endless stream of something else waiting behind it.
What An Episode Costs
Episodes start at $2. You only pay for the ones you make.
In Their Language
Create their show in English, Spanish, Danish or Japanese. The episode is written and narrated in that language from the start — not translated afterward.
What do we actually get with Little Learner?
Everything this page explains, said out loud instead of read. Five minutes, produced exactly the way every Little Learner episode is.
Before you start
Questions You're Probably Asking
The things worth knowing before you make the first one.
- What ages does this actually work for?
- Three to twelve. If your child is near the edge of an age range, choose the level that feels right for them. You can always try another age range if you want the episodes to be simpler or more detailed.
- How long is an episode?
- About five minutes. Enough time to really explore one idea, but short enough for a ride to school or the few minutes before bed.
- What does it actually cost?
- Episodes start at $2. No subscription required — buy credits when you want them, or subscribe and have them arrive monthly.
- Can I Hear an Example?
- Yes. You can listen to real finished episodes for each age range on this page, no account required.
- Is it written by AI?
- Yes — with a lot more work around it than simply asking AI a question. Obbo researches the topic, plans the episode, writes it for your child’s age, and creates narration designed for listening.
- How Do You Make Sure the Information Is Accurate?
- AI can make mistakes, which is why we make every episode transparent. You get the complete transcript plus the sources used to create it, with links you can check yourself.
- Do I have to download anything?
- No. Set a show up and listen right here in your browser. The app is there for when you would rather have it on a phone — in the car, or at bedtime.
- Can I Create Shows for More Than One Child?
- Absolutely. Each child can have their own show, tailored to their age and the topics they’re interested in. There’s no additional cost to set up another show — you only use credits when you create an episode.
What Has Your Kid Been Asking About?
Turn their next question into a five-minute podcast made for their age. Create it right here on the web, or get the app.