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🇺🇸 English
What LetPod is
LetPod is an app for a child and a grandparent — or any family member — to record a short "podcast" episode together on iPhone or iPad. Draw a task card, and the child plays the "Little Teacher": they teach a word in English, the grown-up says it back, then the grown-up teaches the same word in Taiwanese and the child repeats it. Turns alternate, up to 30 seconds each, and Bite the microphone mascot says whose turn it is out loud. Tap done and the app trims, balances and mixes everything into one finished episode on the shelf. It is completely free, ad-free, collects no data, and works fully offline.
Requirements
- iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 or later. The same app runs on iPhone and iPad; with two people side by side, the iPad's larger screen works best.
- No account or login required. No internet connection needed at any point.
- Microphone access is required — recording is the whole point of the app.
- No camera, photo library, speech recognition, or location permissions are requested.
Common questions
Is LetPod free? Are there ads or in-app purchases?
Every feature is free, and there are no ads. The only in-app purchases are three optional tips ("buy the developer a coffee") inside the grown-ups' area behind the parental gate. They unlock nothing and never appear in the child's part of the app.
Grandma sounds too quiet compared with my child.
That is the single most common issue, and the app already corrects a lot of it: when you tap done, each turn is volume-balanced so quiet takes are lifted to match loud ones. To give it better material to work with, put the device on the table roughly between the two of you rather than in the child's hands, and ask the child to sit back a little — children tend to lean right into the microphone while a grandparent sits half a metre away. If one take still comes out wrong, tap "Again" and redo just that turn instead of restarting the episode.
A turn ended before we were finished.
Each turn stops automatically at 30 seconds. That is intentional — it keeps the episode listenable and keeps a young host moving. If you needed more time, tap "Again" to redo that turn, or simply carry the thought into the next one.
We recorded something we don't want to keep.
While recording, "Again" replaces the current turn — nothing is kept from the discarded take. Once an episode is finished, the child can move it to the recycle bin from the shelf; a grown-up can restore it for 7 days in the grown-ups' area, after which it is removed for good. There is no "delete" wording anywhere in the child's flow, on purpose.
Nobody in the family speaks Taiwanese well. Can we still use it?
Yes. Every Taiwanese word shows its romanization on screen as a hint, and nothing is scored or checked — LetPod never tells anyone they are wrong. Plenty of families use the cards purely as prompts and answer in whatever language they like; the point is that the two of them are talking and recording it.
Where is the shelf full? / How many episodes can we keep?
The shelf holds up to 20 episodes. When it is full, move an older one to the recycle bin to make room. The grown-ups' area shows how much storage the recordings are using.
How do I share an episode with the rest of the family?
Sharing lives in the grown-ups' area, behind the parental gate: tap the lock in the top-right corner of the home screen, answer the multiplication question (or enter your passcode), then pick the episode and share it through the standard iOS share sheet — messaging, mail, AirDrop, or saving the file. That is deliberately the only way a recording can leave the device.
Where are the settings? My child can't find them.
That's by design. The grown-ups' area sits behind a parental gate — a multiplication question a young child cannot pass by guessing. A grown-up can switch it to a 4-digit passcode there. Language, the mascot voice, sharing, storage, the recycle bin and the tip jar are all on the other side of that gate.
There's no sound, or Bite doesn't speak.
Check that the device volume is up, the silent switch is off, and that the mascot voice is switched on in the grown-ups' area. Bite's voice is synthesized on the device by Apple's system speech, so no internet is needed. If the device is connected to a Bluetooth speaker or headphones, sound may be going there instead.
How is my child's voice handled?
Recordings are stored only in the app's own storage on your device. Nothing is uploaded, there is no speech recognition, and no cloud service is involved — trimming and mixing all happen on the device. A file leaves only when a grown-up shares it from behind the parental gate. See our Privacy Policy.
Contact
Email us at [email protected]. We typically reply within 1–2 business days.
🇹🇼 繁體中文
LetPod 是什麼
LetPod 是讓孩子和阿公阿嬤——或任何家人——在 iPhone / iPad 上一起錄一集小廣播的 app。抽一張任務卡,孩子當「小老師」:先教一個英文單字,長輩跟著唸一次,接著換長輩教同一個詞的台語,孩子再跟著唸。你一句我一句輪流錄,一回合最長 30 秒,麥克風精靈「小麥」會出聲說現在換誰講。按下完成,app 就把每一段剪好、音量拉齊、混成一集完整的節目收進作品架。完全免費、零廣告、不收集資料、完全離線。
系統需求
- iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 以上。同一個 App 在 iPhone 與 iPad 都能用;兩個人並肩坐著時,iPad 的大畫面最順。
- 不需要帳號或登入,全程也不需要網路連線。
- 需要麥克風權限——錄音就是這個 app 的全部用途。
- 不請求相機、相簿、語音辨識或定位等權限。
常見問題
LetPod 免費嗎?有廣告或內購嗎?
所有功能免費,沒有廣告。唯一的內購是家長閘後、家長區裡的三檔自由讚助(請開發者喝咖啡),不解鎖任何功能,也不會出現在孩子的畫面上。
阿嬤的聲音比小孩小很多。
這是最常見的一件事,app 本身已經處理掉一大半:按下完成時,每一段都會做音量拉齊,小聲的那段會被拉到跟大聲的差不多。想讓它有更好的素材,把裝置放在兩個人中間的桌上,不要拿在孩子手上,並請孩子稍微往後坐——小孩通常會整個貼到麥克風上吼,阿嬤卻坐在半公尺外。如果某一段還是不理想,按「再一次」只重錄那一回合,不必整集重來。
還沒講完,那一回合就自己停了。
每一回合滿 30 秒會自動停,這是刻意的——節目才聽得下去,小主持人也才不會卡在同一句。真的需要更多時間,按「再一次」重錄那一回合,或把話留到下一回合講。
錄到不想留的東西。
錄製中按「再一次」會直接取代這一回合,被換掉的那段不會留下。整集完成後,孩子可以在作品架把它放進回收箱;大人有 7 天可以在家長區救回,之後就永久移除。孩子的流程裡刻意不出現「刪除」這種字。
家裡沒有人台語很好,還能用嗎?
可以。每個台語詞在畫面上都附羅馬拼音當提示,而且完全不評分、不比對——LetPod 從來不會告訴任何人「你講錯了」。很多家庭就是把卡片當成聊天題目,用什麼語言回答都行;重點是祖孫兩個人真的在講話,而且錄下來了。
作品架滿了?可以存幾集?
作品架最多 20 集。滿了就把比較舊的一集放進回收箱空出位子。家長區可以看到這些錄音佔用多少儲存空間。
怎麼把節目分享給其他家人?
分享在家長閘後的家長區:點首頁右上角的鎖,答對乘法題(或輸入你設定的密碼),選一集,用 iOS 標準分享功能送出——傳訊息、寄信、AirDrop 或存成檔案都行。這是刻意設計成錄音離開裝置的唯一途徑。
設定在哪裡?孩子找不到。
這是刻意的。家長區在家長閘之後——一道幼童猜不過的乘法題,大人可以在裡面改成 4 位數密碼。語言、吉祥物語音、分享、儲存空間、回收箱與自由讚助,全都在那道閘門的另一邊。
沒有聲音,或小麥不講話。
請確認裝置音量已調高、靜音開關已關閉,並在家長區確認吉祥物語音是開啟的。小麥的聲音由 Apple 系統語音在裝置本機合成,不需要網路。另外若裝置連著藍牙喇叭或耳機,聲音可能跑到那邊去了。
孩子的聲音怎麼處理?
錄音只存在你裝置上 app 自己的空間,不上傳、沒有語音辨識、不經任何雲端服務——剪接與混音全在裝置上完成。檔案要離開,只有大人在家長閘後主動分享這一條路。詳見隱私權政策。
聯絡我們
請寄信至 [email protected],通常 1–2 個工作天內回覆。