Mustard Seed Chinese

Diaspora Chinese families face a double struggle: kids whose Mandarin lags + a generational gap in faith transmission. Either one alone is hard; together, harder.

Existing products only solve one side — pure Chinese-learning apps (disconnected from faith) or pure Sunday school (with shallow Mandarin). Parents have to "stitch" the two worlds together by hand: Mandarin apps Monday through Friday, Sunday school on Sunday, never crossing.

Just as the mustard seed is small yet grows into a tree (Matthew 13:31-32), a child's daily knowledge — watered by God's word — takes root and grows. I believe fifteen minutes of Bible-Chinese a day beats one Sunday-school session a week — because the seed of faith needs daily watering.

• Kids 5–12 learning Mandarin — they already recognize a few dozen characters but need context and consistency.
• Diaspora Chinese families wanting their kids to grow in both language and faith, without the daily "stitching" between worlds.
• Sunday-school and Chinese-school teachers who want a supplemental tool with a Bible verse built into every lesson.
• Non-Chinese adults learning Mandarin who want to use familiar Bible texts as context anchors.
• Cross-cultural missionary families — kids in multilingual environments need a steady "first-language" Bible-learning baseline.

• Two tracks unified — every lesson progresses Mandarin and Bible knowledge at once. The core characters come from CUV verses.
• 9-step learning flow (Listen / See / Play / Match / Write / Read / Memorize) covers four learning channels: auditory, visual, motor, and memory.
• On-device speech recognition — Apple SFSpeechRecognizer runs entirely locally; children's voice data never leaves the phone.
• Offline-first — the Bible + all lessons ship in the bundle. Works on planes, in cars, with no signal.
• Multi-child family sharing — siblings each get their own profile, progress never mixes.
• No ads, no tracking, no third-party analytics — Apple Kids Category compliant.

Four learning modules:

• Garden · daily dashboard — verse feed, streak calendar, review reminders.
• Growth · progress tracking — lessons / characters / verses, all at a glance.
• Roots · Bible browser — all 66 books, pinyin overlay, notes, read-along, memorization.
• Path · learning route — structured curriculum with one Bible verse per lesson.

Five interactive exercises: Listen-and-Choose · Match · Stroke Writing · Read-Along · Memorization.

9-step lesson flow: Listen → See characters → Listen-and-Choose → Bubble Shooter → Match → Fishing Game → Stroke practice → Read-along → Memorize.

Native SwiftUI 17+ iOS, two games on SpriteKit physics (Bubble Shooter + Fishing Game), three UI languages (Simplified / Traditional / English).

• Mar 2026 · iOS 1.0 shipped on the App Store.
• App Store · apps.apple.com/.../id6760686942
• Level 1 — "Foundations · Characters" complete: 100 lessons, 20 books of the Bible, 400+ characters.
• Three UI languages stable (Simplified / Traditional / English).
• Family sharing + multi-child profiles live.
• Level 2 — "Growth · Vocabulary" in development, targeting Q3 release.

• Android version in development · Kotlin + Jetpack Compose · shares the same backend as iOS.
• Full curriculum across 4 levels, 400 lessons total:
  • Level 2 · Growth · Vocabulary (in development)
  • Level 3 · Stories · Parables (planned)
  • Level 4 · Deep Roots · Theology (planned)
• Parent web dashboard — see your kid's progress, this week's verse, read-along pronunciation accuracy.
• Group features: church / Sunday-school class modes; teachers can assign lessons.
• Localization: Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian Chinese variants.
• Open corpus: release the 400+ characters + verse index under MIT so other educational products can build on it.