Our story
Every parent wants to help.Not every parent was given the chance.
Trickly exists to close that gap — so that the person who most wants to teach a child is finally able to.
It is nine at night. The exercise book is open. The child asks what a percentage is. And the parent — who works twelve hours, who loves this child more than anything, who left school at twelve — has to say ask your teacher tomorrow.
That sentence costs far more than it looks. The child learns that home is not a place where learning happens. The parent learns, one more time, that they are not qualified to raise their own child's education.
Neither of those is true. And neither has anything at all to do with how much either of them cares.
Sometimes it is not even the subject — it is the script. The question is printed in a language the parent cannot read. They are holding the book. They simply cannot see what it says.
For families who can pay, tuition solves this. For everyone else, there has been nothing.
What changed
A camera, and a machine that speaks nine languages
Two things arrived at the same time. Almost every Indian home now has a phone with a camera. And it became possible for a machine to read a handwritten question and explain it back in Malayalam, or Tamil, or Bengali.
Put those together and something new exists: a parent can photograph a question they cannot read, and receive not just the answer — but the words to teach it, in the language they speak at home.
That is the whole idea. We are not replacing the parent. We are handing them the sentence they were missing, so they can be the one who explains it.
From the founder
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What we believe
A language should never be a wall
Menus, lessons and explanations exist in nine Indian languages. Not English with a translate button bolted on — properly, all the way through.
Understanding beats memorising
Every one of our 63 shortcuts explains why it works, not only how. A trick you understand is a trick you keep.
Children should go outside
We interrupt after thirty minutes and send them to play Kho-Kho. We are probably the only learning app actively trying to reduce its own screen time.
Exams are a skill of their own
Knowing the answer is half of it. Every lesson also says what to write, in what order, and the trap most children fall into.
- English
- हिन्दी
- മലയാളം
- தமிழ்
- తెలుగు
- ಕನ್ನಡ
- বাংলা
- मराठी
- ગુજરાતી
What we will never do
These are not policies we could quietly change later. They are the reason the product is shaped the way it is.
- Show advertising to a child, on any plan, ever.
- Sell personal data, to anyone, for any price.
- Use your child's homework to train an AI model.
- Build anything whose purpose is to keep a child on the screen longer.
- Let the price be the reason a family cannot use it.
The detail is in our privacy policy, written to India's DPDP Act protections for children.
Who builds Trickly
A Thriftizer product
Trickly is built and run by Thriftizer. Add a line about Thriftizer in src/lib/site.ts and it will appear here — a visitor who knows who is behind a product trusts it more, and that matters when you are asking a family to share information about their child.
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We are early, and we are listening
The request board is genuinely how we decide what to build next. If Trickly is missing the thing your family needs, tell us and it goes on the list.
Or write to hello@trickly.in — in any language.