The story so far
No team, no funding, no roadmap meetings — just a small app I wanted to exist, built one word at a time.
The idea
I wanted a daily word habit without handing over an account, seeing ads, or losing the Hindi meaning that actually helps a word stick. Nothing quite fit, so I started sketching my own.
First build
Built solo in React Native — no designer, no team, just figuring out what "calm" actually means for an app: no streak-shaming, no push nagging, retries that are always free.
July 2026
Launched on the App Store — free, no accounts, no ads, with Hindi meanings built in from day one instead of bolted on as an afterthought.
August 2026
Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type, Reduced Motion, real color contrast — not retrofitted after launch, just finished properly and declared honestly in the App Store's own accessibility section.
Growing the word list
wordsproutapp.com, the free word glossary, the daily quiz — all built the same way as the app: no accounts, no tracking, nothing collected.
What's next
More word packs and more language support are on the way. What isn't changing: no accounts, no ads, no tracking. That part was never up for negotiation.
I'm a solo, self-taught developer — Word Sprout doesn't have a growth team or an ad budget, and it isn't trying to maximize time-in-app. It's trying to be a small, genuinely useful daily habit: one word, one quiz, one small nudge toward a plant that grows a little more.
Every decision — the plant that actually grows with your streak, the Hindi translations, the accessibility work — came from wanting to use this myself and being a little tired of apps that treat attention as the product.
— Kushal, maker of Word Sprout
No accounts, no ads, no analytics — anywhere on the app or this site.
Hindi meanings for every word, not an afterthought feature.
VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, and Reduced Motion, from day one.