Hi Product Hunt! 👋 CakeWords started with a simple observation: Kids don’t learn words from flashcards, they learn from things. The cup they drink from, the teddy they sleep with, the guitar in the corner. So I created an app that turns the real world into a deck. How it works: Your child points the camera at any object and takes a picture of it. Cakewords cut out the object from the photo and turn it into a die-cut sticker, name it in the language they are learning and their native language, and say it out loud. The stickers in their collection are bent and hand-kept like an actual sticker book. Then there is Pokemon. The themed set features a word deck of 102 everyday objects – food, animals, toys, vehicles – and kids hunt for them around the house. There are stripes, badges, collector tiers, a catch of the day… and the rare **flashy❤️ catches that show up one snap out of twelve and make you lose your mind (in a good way). My favorite emerging behavior from the test: Kids start exploring things in the house they haven’t caught yet. The app turns “go play” into “go find me a spoon” in German. The part I’m most proud of: everything runs on the device. Object recognition and cut-out happens with Apple’s Vision Framework, naming and translation happens with the on-device Apple Intelligence Model, speech happens with the system synthesizer. There is no server. Which means: – 🔒 Photos of your home and your baby’s stuff never leave the phone – 🙅 No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking – There’s nothing to collect – ✈️ Works on airplanes, at grandma’s house, anywhere – 💸 Unlimited snapping on the free tier, because each snap doesn’t cost me anything At launch Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and many more. I built it as a solo developer, and the obstacle I faced the whole way was: paywall gets value, never learning. Kids with the free version get a complete, generous experience forever. I would really love your feedback, especially from parents raising bilingual children, language teachers, and anyone who remembers the exact moment they held their first shiny thing. What items should be in the next dex pack? What languages am I missing? I’ll be here answering questions all day. 🍰
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