What's new
What has changed on Gradeless, newest first, and what we're working on. Gradeless changes often — sometimes several times a day — so this page groups changes by month and leaves out the plumbing.
Last updated September 29, 2026
September 2026
- Every lesson has its own page
- Read about a lesson before playing it, and share a link that shows a picture card.
- About eighty new lessons
- Math, history, focus and tracing lessons, spanning kindergarten through grade 5.
- Then and Now
- The first history lesson: which came first, for kindergarten through grade 2.
- Lessons adapt while you play
- Moves ahead sooner when it's easy, steps back when stuck, a break every fifteen questions.
- A warm-up a slip can't sink
- Finds a starting spot without asking a grade, and one wrong answer can't sink it.
- Read aloud
- Every question has a speaker button; pre-readers hear it automatically.
- Home is "for you"
- Next up, more lessons that fit, and a search box.
- Grown-ups sign in too
- Parents and teachers get accounts, and link to their kids and classes.
- Privacy policy and COPPA notice
- Published, and made true in the code: names encrypted, codes hashed.
- Star Lanes
- A new arcade game: an on-rails space adventure with a long campaign.
- Cake Climb is fairer
- Redrew the levels after kids told us one jump was too hard.
- Better on phones
- An on-screen number pad, a fullscreen button, everything on one screen.
- Subjects, and pay that fits
- Lessons grouped into subjects; arcade time now varies with how much of a stretch a question is.
August–early September 2026
- Save your progress with a code
- A first name and a secret code carry progress to any device.
- Arcade time instead of lives
- Every correct answer pays seconds of play; the arcade spends them.
- Flashcards
- Addition, subtraction and multiplication, aimed at what your child is ready for.
- The Feedback button
- On every page, straight to us.
Before that
- Rebuilt from scratch
- A fast site that works on a phone, from January 2026. Everything above was built on that.
What we're working on
An honest list, with no dates. Things move up it when someone asks for them with the Feedback button.
- A recovery email for grown-ups
- Building now: a lost code gets replaced by email. Never for a child's account.
- Subject pages
- One page per subject, so a big catalogue stays easy to browse.
- More of the K–5 core in math
- Line plots, decimals, story problems, shapes, and place value to a million.
- More history
- Timelines, then maps — nothing political.
- A clearer picture for grown-ups
- Exploring a better way to show what a child is finding hard, not just what they've finished.
- What would you like to be?
- A child picks a career interest and lessons lean gently that way. Built, being tested, not on for everyone yet.
Not planned, ever: Ads, tracking, asking a child for an email address, or leaderboards.
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