Smahi Inc — a software studio for kids
Careful software for children, built for a cause.
Smahi is a small studio growing an ecosystem of focused, ad-free apps for kids — private by default, with a share of revenue going to the cause each one serves. It starts with Autipal: a talking board, stories, a home plan and a milestone journal in one calm app.
- No ads
- No trackers
- Offline-first
- COPPA-minded
Product · 01
Live on the App Store
Autipal.
Words, stories, and a plan for everyday life.
Autipal is a parent-managed ecosystem for autistic children: a tap-to-speak picture board, personalised social stories, gentle learning, one clear home plan and a milestone journal — connected, calm, and on both iPhone and iPad.
iPhone & iPad · Families & caregivers
615
talking picture tiles
24
ready-made boards
40
illustrated stories
Offline
AAC after first sync
Seven tools, one calm place.
My Child
Real screens from the Autipal app, which is still in development — so details change often.
My Child
One profile per child. Talk, Stories and Learn open from here — with this week's notes, the milestone journal and Our family a tap away.
- One profile per child — their language, voice and look
- Our family: add people with a photo or a drawn character
- An Activity Record you can fill by hand or automatically
A share of Autipal revenue funds autism support services and communication-device access for families who need them.
How it fits
Built to work as one loop.
Most tools solve one slice of a child's day. Autipal connects them — so what you notice becomes a plan, the plan becomes a story and a few words, and the words show you what helps.
- 01
Notice
Milestones
Answer plain, personalised questions on the road to five. A gentle look shows where your child is now.
- 02
Plan
Home plan
Tap a face for how today went, then choose one small thing to try — as a goal you can edit.
- 03
Teach
Stories & Learn
Read a short story together, then practise the same words — the story and the board work as a pair.
- 04
Speak
Communication Board
Your child taps pictures and Autipal says the sentence aloud, in the language your family uses.
- 05
See
Tracking
Gentle tracking over 7 or 30 days shows what helps, and a finished week is summed up in words.
…and the loop begins again, one stop further down the road.
Careful by design
Calm for children. Clear for grown-ups.
Children get big pictures and one clear next step. Everything that changes the board sits behind a grown-up — and every AI draft waits for a parent's yes.
Choice boards
Two or three big pictures and one clear decision: apple, banana, or juice?
First / Then
A two-step visual routine a child can follow — first eat, then play.
- Parent-reviewed AI
- AI drafts the missing tile, story, or care-plan step. Nothing reaches your child until a parent approves every word and image.
- Grown-up card & PIN
- Settings and editing sit behind a one-tap card or a PIN, so a child stays on the board.
- Offline-first
- The talking board keeps speaking without a connection once it has synced the first time.
- No ads, no trackers
- Revenue comes from clearly priced purchases — never from ads or from selling a child's attention.
Mission
One ecosystem, one cause — and the numbers in the open.
Most software for kids is built to capture attention and resell it. We build the opposite: small, well-made tools that do one useful thing, respect a child's time, and route real money to the community the app is about.
The model is specific. Every Smahi product is paired with one cause it genuinely relates to. A fixed share of that product's revenue goes to organisations working on that cause — and we publish the amount.
01
Focused, not addictive
No feeds, no streaks, no ads aimed at children. Each app has a clear job and a clear end state.
02
A cause per product
The cause isn't a logo in the footer. It's chosen to match what the app is for, and it's named.
03
Numbers in the open
We'll publish the give-back percentage and dollar amount per product, per year, so parents can verify the promise.
Giving
What we give, in the open.
The give-back is a design constraint, not an afterthought. Revenue comes from honest, clearly priced purchases — never from ads or from selling a child's attention — and each product's share goes to its paired cause.
A fixed share
of Autipal revenue goes to autism support
We'll publish the exact percentage and dollar totals per product, per year.
Careers
Work with us.
Small team, real ownership, and products that have to earn a child's trust and a parent's. If designing and engineering carefully for kids is your kind of work, we'd like to meet you.
Introduce yourselfNo open roles posted right now — but we read every introduction, and good people change our plans.
Contact
Say hello.
Questions, partnership ideas, or press — reach the team directly. We read everything.
manju@smahiinc.comSmahi Inc · 16978 Meekland Ave · Hayward, CA 94541