The Privacy First Tutor for Families
No non-essential information leaves your device. And the essentials are short enough to list: a verified parent email, your state and country, and four weekly numbers for your summary. Verafy reads along with your child, asks real questions, and proves the learning happened — we know the parent, not the child.
No ads. No tracking. No data collection. Just learning.
Chapter I. The River Bank
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and an aching back and weary arms.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "O blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air.
So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped.
Working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, "Up we go! Up we go!" till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.
A working slice of the real reader — press ▶. The book reads aloud while the gold zone stays put; your child scrolls to keep the narrated passage inside it (simulated here, or scroll it yourself). Points and the sync light stay hidden during reading and reveal only on pause — nothing on screen to game.
Every AI tutor promises to do more for your child — and to do it, learns everything about them. We built the opposite: an AI that deliberately does less and sees less. The hard, formative work of education cannot be outsourced to a machine without ceasing to be education, so Verafy reads along with your child — aloud, at their pace, like a patient narrator — but never summarizes for them, never answers for them, never writes a word on their behalf. And it does all of this knowing nothing about your child: no name, no face, no profile, no history.
What the AI does is quiet and useful: it asks a comprehension question worth answering, gives honest feedback on the answer, adjusts the difficulty of the next book, and writes you a plain-English note about how the session went. The child does the reading. The machine reads along and keeps the record.
Other AI tutors learn everything about your child. Verafy teaches without watching — and proves the learning was real.
The books, the narration, the verification, the points, the reading history — all of it lives and runs on your family’s device. Your account is a verified parent email plus your state and country — the email so a real parent is in charge, the location so we follow your local privacy laws. Your weekly summary is built from a minimal stats digest — minutes, sessions, points, books — labeled by the reading animal each child picks, never by a name. Verification photos — so you can see which child did the work — are taken on the device and stay on the device, along with your child’s name and voice. No analytics, no tracking, nothing watching your child read.
One parent email · nothing about your childWhen Verafy asks questions and grades answers, exactly two things are sent: the public-domain passage and your child’s typed answer. Never a name, a photo, a voice, a location — nothing that identifies your child, and nothing that’s used to train AI models.
Passage + answer · nothing elseYour child’s reading history belongs to your family, full stop. It stays in your hands — never sold, never mined, never shared. Verafy’s business is the subscription, not your child’s data.
Never sold · never mined · never sharedYour child picks from a curated library of classics. The book is read aloud at their pace — a patient narrator who never gets tired and never skips ahead — while your child follows on the page.
Real literature, full textsA gold reading zone sits still on the page. As the narration moves through the book, your child scrolls to keep the passage being read inside the zone. Doing that requires listening — it's effortless when you're following along and impossible when you're not. No camera-staring, no gimmicks: the act of following is the proof.
Patent-pending verificationAfter the passage, the tutor asks a few real questions — not multiple-choice trivia — and gives feedback on the answers. Each verified session is added to your child's reading history, and a summary lands with you.
Honest questions, honest feedbackNo licensed cartoon tie-ins, no leveled-reader filler. The starting shelf is drawn from the books families have trusted for a century — and it grows every month.
A sampling of the opening shelf. Full texts, beautifully set, read aloud in natural voices.
"Did you do your reading?" is a question every parent asks and no parent can check. Homeschooling families feel it most: you assigned the book, you hope it was read, and all you can really verify is that time passed.
Verafy Tutor ends the wondering. After every session you see what was read, how long the reading was genuinely followed, what the tutor asked, and how your child answered — plus the session photo, stored only on your device, that shows you which child did the work. All in a short note written for a busy adult, not a data dashboard.
A weekly summary arrives by email — free for every family. The full reading history is always yours to browse, and it lives on your device, not on our servers.
"Eleanor tracked closely through both chapters and gave a thoughtful answer about why Mary hides the key. She rushed the last question — worth revisiting what the robin's behavior tells us. Suggested next: chapter 6 at the same pace."
An 8-inch kids tablet with a thick shockproof case and an all-day battery, delivered free, on any plan — including the free one. Families with more than one reader can order extras in different colors, so every child knows whose is whose. 30-day returns, no questions.
$99.99 each · free shipping · works with every planWhen the tablet arrives, you connect it to your Wi-Fi, open Verafy Tutor, and pin it using Android’s built-in App Pinning — our included guide walks you through it in about a minute. From then on, the tablet opens to the library and nothing else: no store, no browser, no feeds, no way out without your code.
No feeds · no store · no exitsVerafy Tutor runs in the browser on any tablet, phone, or computer — no purchase required. The same one-app trick works on hardware you already have: on iPad, turn on Guided Access and triple-click to lock the session; on Android, use App Pinning. Our setup guide covers both.
iPad Guided Access · Android App PinningThe complete on-device reading tutor.
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Trey & Ellice Tomeny
Trey and Ellice Tomeny are professional educators who live in Orem, Utah, with a combined nine children and seven grandchildren between them.
Trey was a founder of Legacy Christian Academy in Frisco, Texas, and of Coram Deo Academy in Flower Mound, Texas. He and his first wife homeschooled their two young boys until the day they started going to school with them — every day.
Ellice has been a public school art teacher since 2015, after her first husband passed.
Trey and Ellice share one of life’s heaviest burdens: each has buried a child. TJ, Trey’s oldest son, went to be with Jesus in 2005 at the age of 14. Joshua, Ellice’s middle son, entered eternity in 2016 at the age of 25, after a lifetime with spina bifida. Verafy Tutor is built in their memory — for every hour a parent gets to spend reading with a child.
Trey and Ellice were married in 2021, and Verafy Tutor is their first joint creation. Verafy herself — always openly an AI, never pretending otherwise — is their creation too, though around the Tomeny house she does get spoken of like family.
